GECINUS DEDEMI. 59 
NOTE XIII. 
ON SOME NEW OR RARE BIRDS FROM SUMATRA, 
JAVA, CERAM AND THE POELOE TOKDJOE- 
GROUP, NORTH OF CERAM 
BY 
Dr. E. D. VAN OORT. 
The new birds, of which the descriptions follow here, 
have been collected by Mr. F. K. Baron van Dedem, who, 
in company with his wife, made a trip through our 
Kast-Indian possessions. They have been collected on the 
Volcano Sibajak in the Batak Mountains near Lake Toba 
in Northern Sumatra, in East Java, in Ceram and in the 
Poeloe Toedjoe, a group of islands north of Ceram. 
I have to tender my thanks to Dr. Hartert in Tring, 
for his help in comparing some of the specimens in the 
Tring and London Museums, as for some of the forms I 
had no material for comparison. 
The new forms and some interesting birds from Ceram 
have provisionally been deposited by Baron van Dedem in 
the Leyden Museum. 
Gecinus dedemi nov. sp. 
Ad. ©. Top of the head and hind-head crimson ; narrow 
frontal line, lores, superciliary line, nape, hind-neck and 
malar stripe black; sides of face, earcoverts and chin 
grey; throat and upper part of the sides of the neck 
greenish olive; fore-neck and sides of neck, upper breast, 
back, wingcoverts and secondaries olive-red, brighter red 
Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XXXIV. 
