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16. Tropidorhynchus neglectus , n. sp. 



Tropidorkynchus timoriensis , Wall, (part.) P. Z. S. 1863, p. 48t3. 

 Philemon timoriensis , Gadow (part.), Cat. Birds Br. Mus. Vol. IX. 

 p. 273; — Guillemard, P. Z. S. 1885, p. 509 (ex Sumbawa). 



Similar to T. timoriensis , but the silvery whitish edge 

 along each side of the crown, thoroughly mentioned by 

 S. Muller in his original description of the latter species, 

 entirely wanting. 



General color above brownish gray, underneath paler, 

 centre of abdomen and under tail-coverts almost white, 

 crown somewhat more fulvous than the back , not flanked 

 with white, the feathers of the hind neck in adult birds 

 like the crown or but little lighter, only in immature spe- 

 cimens forming a more or less silvery white collar. Tail 

 like upper surface, tipped with white. Front and whole 

 sides of head except the ear-coverts bare , the latter very 

 dark brown, nearly black, chin and throat silvery white, 

 with black shaft-streaks on each feather, feathers on lower 

 throat and chest similar in color and lanceolate. Bill , well- 

 developed knob on the culmen , naked parts of the head , 

 and feet black. 



Measurements like in T. timoriensis : wing 13,6 — 15 cm.; 

 tail 1,2 — 1,5 cm.; tarsus 3,8 cm., bill from behind the hump 

 to the tip 4,2 — 4,5 cm. 



Hab. Lombok (probably) , Plores , Sumbawa , where it 

 represents T. timoriensis^ which latter inhabits Timor and 

 Wetter. 



Already some years ago , when looking through a col- 

 lection of birds we had received from Mr. van Lansberge, and 

 amongst which was a Tropidorhynchus, I was struck by 

 the want of the silvery stripe which flanks the crown in 

 T. timoriensis , and found that another specimen in the 

 Leyden Museum , collected by Forsten at Bima (Sumbawa), 

 and a third , collected by Semmelink at Larantuka (Flores), 

 differed in the same way from our Timor-specimens , where- 

 fore I gave these specimens the manuscript name T. neglectus. 



Notes from the T^eyden IMuseum, Vol. XIII. 



