58 NISUS ALBIVENTRIS. 



NOTE XII. 



ON A COLLECTION OF BIRDS FROM THE 

 TENIMBER ISLANDS. 



J. BUTTIKOPER. 



(Plate 3). 



In 1883 a collection of birds from the Tenimber or Ti- 

 mor-Laut group of Islands was presented to our Museum by 

 Mr. Riedel , Resident at Amboina, This collection contains 

 35 skins, representing 31 species, one of which {Erythro- 

 myias Riedeli) is new to science, while two other {Ardea 

 picata and Fregata minor) are for the first time brought 

 from that interesting locality. Unfortunately the collec- 

 tion was much damaged by humidity , some of the labels 

 were wasted entirely , while in most of the others the sexe , 

 date and particularities about the locality were not men- 

 tioned. It is however quite certain that all the present- 

 ed skins really come from Timor-Laut, and have been col- 

 lected by the hunters of Mr. Riedel in 1882, Our Museum 

 is very much indebted to Mr. Riedel for this collection , the 

 more as it is the first one we ever received from this far- 

 away portion of the Dutch possessions in the Malay 

 Archipelago. 



JVisus albiventris. 



Urospizias albiventris, Salvad. Orn. Pap. I. p. 56; Meyer, 

 Isis, 1884, p. 11; Forbes, P. Z. S. 1884, p. 426. 

 Urospizias sp., Salvad. P. Z. S. 1884, p. 577. 



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