532 Mr. P. L. Sclatei on the Geographical 



Signor Tea, has recently made fine collections in parts of 

 Burmah for the Museo Civico, Genoa. Of these Count 

 Salvadori has given us an excellent account (60). At the 

 extremity of the Malay Peninsula an active ornithologist, 

 Mr. Davison, has lately been established at Singapore as 

 Curator of the Raffles Museum, and is understood to be 

 working hard upon the ornithology of the British and 

 Protected States of the Peninsula. In Siam, Annam, and 

 Tonquin, not so much has been done of late years. The 

 French National Museum has received many collections 

 from those countries, and the discovery of some fine new- 

 forms (such as Rheinardius ocellatus) has been the result, 

 but we have as yet no connected account of the ornithology 

 of these States, and we must look to M. Oustalet to supply 

 this want. 



3. The Siinda Islands. 



Great advance has been made in our knowledge of the 

 birds of the East-Indian Archipelago during the last fifteen 

 years, and nearly all the larger of its component islands have 

 been frequently visited and explored. Of the birds of the 

 great Island of Borneo, Count Salvadori published an 

 excellent systematic catalogue in 1874 (61), based mainly 

 upon the collections of Doria and Beccari. Considerable 

 additions, however, have been made to the Bornean Ornis 

 since that period, amongst which we must call special attention 

 to the splendid series obtained on Mount Kina Balu and in 

 the adjacent districts by Mr. J. Whitehead in 1885-87. This 

 series, which has been fully described by Dr. Bowdler Sharpe 

 in 'The Ibis' for 1889 and 1890 (62), embraces examples of 

 no less than 228 species. Dr. W. Blasius has also described 

 (63) the collection made by Herr Grabowsky in South- 

 eastern Borneo, and has given us a resume of recent papers 

 on this subject. 



In the adjacent islands of Sumatra and Java no such 

 superlatively good work has lately been effected. But 

 Sumatra has been recently visited by ornithologists of several 

 different nations, amongst whom we may specially mention 



