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IV.-ON THE BIRDS OF LOMBOK. 



The birds from Lombok, or Tanah Sasak as it is generally called by the Malays, 

 were collected in one fortnight in June, on the hills above Labuan-Hadji on the 

 east coast, mostly at elevations of from 1000 to 6000 feet, chiefly between 2000 

 and 4000, where there was large old forest, some few from the low country near 

 the coast. The higher parts were found " very poor in birds, and seemed not to 

 contain anything very interesting or peculiar." 



This collection is a most interesting addition not only to Mr. Rothschild's 

 Museum, but also to our knowledge of the avifauna of Lombok. Only two Lists 

 of Birds from Lombok have ever been published the one by Wallace in the 

 Proceedings of the Zool. Soc. of London, 1863, and one that appeared quite 

 recently in Vol. LIV. of the Natuurk. Tijdschr. voor Nederl.-Indie in Batavia, 

 1895, pp. 327 353, by Dr. Vorderman. Wallace's list contains sixty-two species, 

 Vorderman's fifty-one, of which twenty had not been found on Lombok by Wallace, 

 the total of the species of the two collections being eighty-two species known. 

 I affix an asterisk to the species not found in Lombok before. 



It is remarkable that a large new Carpopkaga was found in Lombok as well 

 as in Bali. 



Doherty could not find any confirmation of the reports that the tiger had 

 crossed over from Bali to Lombok. This report seems to be an unfounded 

 newspaper note. 



1. Pratincola caprata (L.). 

 Met with at 4000 and 5000 feet. Both sexes iris dark brown. 



*2. Geocichla horsfieldi (Bp.). 



Six specimens of this rare thrush, hitherto only known from Java, were shot 

 in the hills between 3000 and 6000 feet. Some are immature, and they have the 

 subterminal spots on the head and the lanceolate spots on the lesser wing-coverts 

 more ochraceous, the breast darker. Wing 140 145 mm. " Iris dark chestnut ; 

 maxilla blackish ; mandible grey, ochreous at base; feet pale dirty brownish." 



3. Geocichla andromedae (Temm.). 



Shot at 2000 and 3000 feet, one with still a few feathers of the first plumage 

 on the wing, one quite young. $ fere ad. " Iris deep brown ; beak black ; feet 

 blackish." 



*4. Geocichla dohertyi sp. nov. 

 (Plate XL f. 3.) 



c? ad. Geocichla pileo nigro, cervice, dorso supracaudalibusque castaneis. Alis 

 nigris, apicibus tectricum mediarum majorumque nonnullarum, speculo magno 

 Geocichlino sic dicto albis, remige quinto et sexto pogoniis externis albo limbatis. 

 Cauda nigra, rectricibus externis apice albo in pogonio interne. Loris, regione 

 malari, ophthalmica et parotica albis. Mento albido. Gutture nigro. Pectore 

 et abdomine albis; lateribus ochraceis, plumis maculis magnis nigris ornatis. 

 L. t. ca. 180 mm. ; al. 105 ; caud. 73 ; tars. 26 27 ; culm. 21. 



Hab. Insulis Lombok (typus) et Sambawa dictis. 



