On Birds collected in the Island of Java. 139 



''Ptilopus apicalis, Bp. /. c. p. 339. 



"Hab. Havauah Harbour, Vela Habour, &c/' 



Mr. E-amsay writes, " This is probably the species referred 

 to by Mr. E. L. Layard as P. greyi (Ibis, 1878 ?, p. 275)." 



We have followed Gray, Finsch and Hartlaub, Verreaux and 

 Des Murs, Canon Tristram, D. G. Elliot in his exhaustive 

 monograph on the Ptilopi (P. Z. S. 1878, p. 500), and other 

 authorities in assigning the name of P. greyi to the Dove 

 which is found throughout New Caledonia, the Loyalty 

 Islands, and jSI ew Hebrides far up to the northward. Whether 

 these are all wrong, and Mr. Ramsay only is right, we must 

 leave better judges than ourselves to decide. As we have 

 sent home numerous specimens, there can be no doubt as to 

 the identity of the species; and, as far as we ourselves can un- 

 derstand plain descriptions, we have no doubt that the birds 

 are P. greyi and not P, apicalis. 



XI. — List of Birds collected by Mr. H. O. Forbes in the Island 

 of Java. By Francis Nicholson, F.Z.S. 



Since my last communication on the ornithology of Java 

 (Ibis, 1879, p. 164), I have acquired for my collection the 

 series of birds obtained by Mr. H. O. Forbes during his 

 recent travels in Java. At present I confine myself to giving 

 a list of the specimens, with the interesting notes given by 

 Mr. Forbes on the labels of the birds ; but I hope ere long to 

 publish a complete catalogue of the birds of Java, if I can 

 manage to induce Mr. Forbes to continue collecting in that 

 island. I think it right to state, apropos of my statement 

 that Mr. Wallace^s Javan collections had been dispersed 

 without a catalogue, that I have received a letter from that 

 gentleman informing me that a complete series of his birds 

 was deposited in the British Museum along with his other 

 collections, and that he still has all his notes, which he has 

 kindly offered to place at my disposal if I should carry out 

 my present intention of making a full list of the birds of 

 Java. 



