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NOTE XXXVII. 

 THE BIRDS OF SUMBA 



BY 



A. B. MEYER. 



In his article on the birds of Sumba (antea pp. 196 — 204) 

 Mr. Biittikofer has enumerated 32 species from this seldom 

 visited island, but, in stating that Dr. ten Kate's collec- 

 tion was the first one from there, he has overlooked the 

 fact, that I published in the year 1881, in the „Verhand- 

 lungen der k.k. zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in 

 Wien" pp. 759 — 767, a list of birds from Sumba, based 

 upon materials received from Dr. Riedel, the well known 

 and meritorious investigator and collector on the islands 

 of the eastern half of the Indian Archipelago , in which 

 list I already enumerated 40 species. 



With the exception of 8, viz.: 

 Astur torguatus (T.) Artamus leucogaster (Val.) 



Sauropatis chloris (Bodd.) Calornis minor (Bp.) 



Oriolus hroderipi Bp. Megapodius duperreyi Less. 



lerpsiphone affinis (Blyth) Numenius variegatus (Scop.), 

 Mr. Büttikofer's and my lists contain different ones , and , 

 thus, the number of species now known from Sumba is 

 raised to 64, which is, no doubt, only a part of the avi- 

 fauna of the island. Among these 64 species only 3 appear 

 to be peculiar to Sumba, viz. : 



Ninox rudolji M. 

 Graucalus sumbensis M. 

 Dicaeum loilhelminae B. 



Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XIV. 



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