Scolopax roseubergi and S, saturata. 109 



to the Malay Archipelago, breeding northwards in Eastern 

 Thibet or Ynnnan " (!). 



All this falls to the ground if, instead of making suppo- 

 sitions, we examine carefully the Javan and the New-Guinea 

 birds, as we shall then be easily convinced that they belong 

 to two distinct species, each having a different and very limited 

 geographical distribution. 



I asked the authorities of the Museo Civico of Milan, 

 where Count Turati's collection is now preserved, to send me 

 the specimen of /S. roseubergi mentioned in my work (vol. iii. 

 p. 236) for inspection, and I also asked Dr. Guillemard 

 to send me his specimen. Both are now before me, together 

 with a specimen of S. saturata from Java, a very fine one, 

 mentioned above as being preserved in the Museum of 

 Turin. 



But before proceeding to state the differences between the 

 two birds, I consider it opportune to make a census of the 

 knowai specimens of the two species. Both birds are very 

 rare in collections. Mr. Seebohm states that of the Javan 

 bird only three specimens exist : — (1) Horsfield's type, moth- 

 eaten and devoid of feathers, in the British Museum"^ ; (2 and 

 3) two examples in the Leyden Museum, collected by Boie 

 in Java. To these, to my knowledge, we must add a fourth 

 specimen, in the Derby Museum, mentioned by Blyth (Ibis, 

 1865, p. 36, note) ; a fifth, killed by Mr. Goldman on Mount 

 Salak, in Western Java, mentioned and carefully described 

 by Dr. Vorderman (Nat. Tijdschr. v. Nederl. Ind. xlv. p. 107, 

 1885) ; and a sixth, in the Museum of Turin. 



Of the New-Guinea bird only three specimens are known : 

 1st, the type, in the Leyden Museum, sent by Baron von 

 Rosenberg ; 2nd, the sj)ecimen in Turati's collection, killed 

 by Bruiju's hunters on the Arfak Mountains, and received 

 through Mr. Laglaize ; 3rd, Dr. Guillemard's specimen, a 

 female, also collected on the Arfak Mountains by Bruijn's 

 hunters, which, as Dr. Guillemard has already stated, cor- 

 responds with the description in my ' Ornitologia.'' 



* On a previous occasion (Ibis, 1S87, p. 284) Mr. Seebohm stated that 

 the tvpe specimen " cannot now be found " in the British Museum. 



