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been taken after Malacca, from which it is divided by so narrow a 
channel. The northern part of this island is still little known, 
but the ornithology of some districts at each of its ends has of late 
been more or less examined,! with the effect of setting aside details 
formerly accepted though not of announcing new results. All that 
can be said’ here is that its Avifauna is much allied to that both of 
Malacca and Borneo, but it seems to have less peculiarity than 
the latter’s. No Megapode has yet been found in the island, and 
but three species of Pitta. 
We then have Java, the best-explored, the most thickly-peopled, 
and, proportionately to its Avifauna, the most peculiar, perhaps, of 
the Indo-Malay Islands. According to Dr. Vorderman, who in 
1884 summarized a long series of valuable papers published 
by him in the Natural-history Journal of Netherlandish India by 
issuing a List of the Birds from Java,’ which are 404 in number, 
whereof 307 are Land-birds. He simultaneously put forth an alpha- 
betical index to the species which have been recorded from Batavia, 
and has since produced two other papers? on Birds obtained at as 
many stations in Western Java. Still a comparison of the Avifauna 
with that of the neighbouring islands is yet to be made, and it is to 
be hoped that this naturalist from his intimate acquaintance with 
this part of the Subregion will in due time accomplish it. General 
remarks from a compiler would here be futile, but it may be men- 
tioned that several Burmese species which have been said not to 
occur in the Malay Peninsula south of Penang reappear in Java— 
among them a beautiful Peacock, Pavo muticus. 
Of Bali, so interesting as the southern limit of the Indian 
Region, we only know from Mr. Wallace that he saw there several 
Birds highly characteristic of Javan ornithology, but whether the 
island has any peculiar species nowhere appears; it will be seen, how- 
ever, from the preceding statements that Bali stands not alone in the 
Indo-Malay Archipelago as requiring further investigation, and a 
comparative view of the Avifauna of its cemponent parts is still 
greatly needed. We are now brought to the brink of that remark- 
able Strait through which runs ‘ Wallace’s Line,” and crossing it 
we find ourselves in the Australian Region, of which we have 
already treated. 
GERANOMORPH &, the second group of Prof. Huxley’s Sub- 
order SCHIZOGNATH (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1867, p. 457), of which he 
1 Of. Tweeddale, Zbis, 1877, pp. 283-323 ; Wardlaw-Ramsay, Proc. Zool. Soc. 
1880, pp. 13-16 (Mr. Carl Bock’s collection) ; Nicholson, Jbis, 1882, pp. 51-65 
(Mr. H. O. Forbes’s collection) ; Salvadori, Ann. Mus. Genova, xiv. pp. 169-253, 
(2) iv. pp. 514-563 ; Biittikofer, Motes Leyden Mus. ix. pp. 1-96. 
2 Of. Natuurk. Tijdschr. Nederlandsch-Indié, xliv. Aflev. 3. 
8 Op. cit. xlv. Aflev. 3; xlvi. Aflev. 1. 
