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A NATURALIST'S WANDERINGS 



species discovered "by Mr, Forbes all are of Papuan genera, and nearly 

 allied to known Papuan species except the Strlx, which appears to be a 

 diminutive form of an Australian type, and the My lagr a, \ih\c\i is nearest 

 1o a Timor form; the OeocichJa machiki is mo&t liearly allied to a Timor 

 hird. There is also in the collection one other Timor hlvdy Erythrura 

 tricolor, which is not found in New Guinea or the Moluccas. 1 think, 

 therefore, we may fairly say that the Tenimberese Avifaima is pre- 

 eminently Papuan, varied only by a sh'ght element from Timor (repre- 

 sented by Erythrura tricolor^ Myiagra fulvivcntris, and the Geockhht), and 



by an Australian tinge shown by the Slrix^ and perhaps by Monarcha 

 nitidas being present (as in the Am Islands) instead of M. cTiahjheo- 



cephalus. . 



BOER 



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IMOR 

 FUAUT 





BKLTCnoIAP OF TUE REGIOX, SHOWING THE OEOGRAPUICAL I^ELATlQXS OF TEE 



TENIMDER GROCP. 

 (with the KIXD PEKMISSIOX OF THE COUNCIL OF THE A^'THRO^OLOGICAL 



INSTITUTE.) 



That the Tenimber group would possess a certain number of peculiar 

 endemic forms was also to be expected, from their isolated situation, and 

 the deep channel around tliem. Altogether these are 29 [now 30] in 

 number, namely the 27 [28] species above described as new, and two 

 Parrots (Eos reticulata and LcUctus rkdeli) previously known." [H. 0, F.] 



IV.— 0« the Collection o/Eeptiles and Batrachiaxs from tJie Timor-lctut 

 Islands , for med hy Mr. H. 0, Fobbes. By G. A. Boulekger, F.Z.S. 



(FromProc. Zoob Soc, London, June 5, 1888. PI XLI., XLII.) 



The Reptiles and Batracliians collected bv Mr, Forbes in the Timor- 

 laut Islands, and presented to the British Museum by the British As- 

 sociation, belong to seventeen species, which, with the exception of two 

 new to science, were already well known from different parts of the 

 Austro-:Malayan sub-region. The two new species are a Li^rard of the 

 Australian genus Lojphojnatliiis, Gray, and a Snake of the Indian genus 



