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NOTE XXVI. 



ON A NEW SPECIES OF TRERON FROM THE 

 ISLAND OF SUMBA (SANDELWOOD). 



BY 



H. SCHLEGEL. 



March 1879. 



Tver on Tey smannii. 



Mr. Teysmann , tlie indefatigable honorary Inspector of the 

 cultures at Buitenzorg in Java, collected, amongst other 

 objects of Natural history , several years ago , during a 

 visit to the island of Sumba , commonly called Sandelwood- 

 island , two specimens of a pigeon of the genus Treron , 

 which appears to belong to a species hitherto unknown to 

 naturalists. 



This bird , dedicated to a gentlemen, who has rendered so 

 many services to science , has its next allied species in Treron 

 psittacea from Timor and in Treron floris inhabiting the 

 island from which its epithet is taken. Ornithologists will 

 remember that I brought the two latter species in a separate 

 subdivision , distinguished from some other allied species of 

 which Treron aromatica is the most remarkable , by their 

 somewhat more lengthened tail. This subdivision was 

 characterized by me (Muséum des Pays-Bas , tome 4 , 

 Columbae , p. 58) in the following terms. "Queue un peu 

 allongee. Teintes générales du plumage d'un vert jaune , 

 passablement vif en arrière du manteau, légèrement lave 



iN'otes from the Ley den IVIuseutn. 



