268 THE BIRDS OF SUMBA. 



those from other localities , viz. the blue under the 

 black baud of the throat. Dr. ten Kate got no specimen 

 of Merops on Sumba, and H. E. Dresser in his mo- 

 nograph of the Meropidae (1884 — 86), under the head of 

 M. ornatus , does not mention the locality of Sumba at 

 all , having missed both my notices. Au unlucky star ap- 

 pears to shine over our knowledge of the avifauna of 

 Sumba. Not only that the birds themselves are very insuf- 

 ficiently known up to the present, but the few notes 

 which exist in literature, appear to have had the fate of 

 partially escaping the eyes of such careful ornithologists as 

 Biittikofer, Salvadori and Dresser, though I published my 

 paper in a periodical , in which nearly all papers of the 

 distinguished Austrian ornithologist von Pelzeln have ap- 

 peared and which , therefore , cannot stand in a hidden 

 corner of au ornithologist's library. 



Royal Zoological Museum of Dresden, 

 June 3, 1892. 



Notes from the JJeydeu IMuseum, Vol. XIV. 



