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been taken after Malacca, from which it is divided by so nari'ow a 

 channel. The northern j^art of this island is still little known, 

 but the ornithology of some districts at each of its ends has of late 

 been more or less examined,^ with the eifect of setting aside details 

 formerly accepted though not of announcing new results. All that 

 can be said here is that its Avifauna is much allied to that both of 

 Malacca and Borneo, but it seems to have less peculiarity than 

 the latter's. No Megapode has yet been found in the island, and 

 but three species of Fitta. 



We then have Java, the best-explored, the most thickly-peopled, 

 and, proportionately to its Avifauna, the most peculiar, perhaps, of 

 the Indo-Malay Islands. According to Dr. Vorderman, who in 

 1884 summarized a long series of valuable papers published 

 by him in the Natural -history Joiurnal of Netherlandish India by 

 issuing a List of the Birds from Java,"^ which are 404 in number, 

 whereof 307 are Land-birds. He simultaneously put forth an alpha- 

 betical index to the species which have been recorded from Batavia, 

 and has since produced two other papers ^ on Birds obtained at as 

 many stations in Western Java. Still a comparison of the Avifauna 

 with that of the neighbouring islands is yet to be made, and it is to 

 be hoped that this naturalist from his intimate acquaintance with 

 this part of the Subregion will in due time accomplish it. General 

 remarks from a compiler would here be futile, but it may be men- 

 tioned that several Burmese species which have been said not to 

 occur in the Malay Peninsula south of Penang reappear in Java — 

 among them a beautiful PEACOCK, Pave midicus. 



Of Bali, so interesting as the southern limit of the Indian 

 Region, we only know from Mr. Wallace that he saw there several 

 Birds highly characteristic of Javan ornithology, but whether the 

 island has any peculiar species nowhere appears; it will be seen, how- 

 ever, from the preceding statements that Bali stands not alone in the 

 Indo-Malay Archipelago as requiring further investigation, and a 

 comparative "view of the Avifauna of its component parts is still 

 greatly needed. We are now brought to the brink of that remark- 

 able Strait through which runs " Wallace's Line," and crossing it 

 we find ourselves in the Australian Region, of which we have 

 already treated. 



GERANOMORPH^, the second group of Prof. Huxley's Sub- 

 order ScHizoGNATHL^ {Proc. Zool. Soc. 1867, p. 457), of which he' 



^ Cf. Tweeddale, Ibis, 1877, pp. 283-323 ; Wardlaw-Ramsay, Froc. Zool. Soc. 

 1880, pp. 13-16 (Mr. Carl Bock's collection) ; Nicholson, Ibis, 1882, pp. 51-65 

 (Mr. H. 0. Forbes's collection) ; Salvadori, Ann. Mus. Genova, xiv. pp. 169-253, 

 (2) iv. pp. 514-563 ; Biittikofer, Notes Leyden IIus. ix. pp. 1-96. 



2 Cf. Natuurk. Tijdschr. Nederlandsch-Indie, xliv. Aflev. 3. 



8 Op. cit. xlv. Aflev. 3 ; xlvi. Aflev. 1. 



