GERYGONE KISSERENSIS. 133 



4. Gerygone kisserensis, n. sp. 



Adult male (Cat. n°. 1). General colour above olive- 

 brown, upper tailcoverts more into rusty brown, head above 

 more dull brown; lores and sides of head more brownish 

 grey, under surface white, sides of breast and flanks rusty 

 brown ; tailfeathers brownish black , lighter towards the 

 base; all the feathers (excepting the two central ones) 

 broadly tipped with a lighter shade of smoky brown ; the 

 four outermost on the inner web with a pale whitish mar- 

 ginal spot not reaching to the shaft. Bill and feet black. 

 „Irides light red" (Schadler). 



Al. caud. culm. rict. tars. 



mm. mm. mm. mm. mm. 



53 39 11 15 21 kisserensis (type). 



50 34 11 15 20 Everetti (1 spec). 



50 — 53 38—39 9 12 17—18 inomata (4 spec). 



Mr. K. Schadler has sent only the above described spe- 

 cimen from the small island of Kisser (opposite to the 

 extreme north-east point of Timor) and gives the follow- 

 ing short, but interesting notice: ))the best singing bird I 

 met with in this island". 



After a careful comparison the specimen proves to belong 

 to a new species, nearly allied to G. inomata Wall, and 

 G. Everetti Hartert, but easily to be distinguished by the 

 markings of the tailfeathers, which show only a pale whitish 

 marginal spot before the end of the inner web (faintest 

 on the outermost feather) and no broad distinct white end 

 (tipped with smoky) and running over both webs on the 

 two outermost as in the above mentioned species. The 

 bill is as large as in G. Evei^etti, and the legs are even 

 somewhat longer than in this species. 



The Leyden Museum possesses 4 specimens of G. inor- 

 nata Wall. (Proc. Z. S. London, 1863, p. 490), collected in 

 1829 by Dr. Salomon Muller in Timor and distinguished 

 already as a new species s. n. „Sylvia (s. Acanthiza) ty- 

 rannuloides Mull." A Gerygone collected by Dr. Salomon 



^otes frora tlae L.eyden JMuseum, Vol. XX. 



