( 565 ) 



63. Gallus varius (Shaw & Nodd.). 

 Shot 5000 feet above the sea. 



64. Ardea novaehollandiae Lath. 

 At nearly 5000 feet elevation. 



Doherty thus collected in Lombok almost exactly the same number of species 

 as Wallace, who ^enumerates sixty-two.* Both naturalists collected chiefly small 

 birds and very few large ones, but Doherty sent twenty-one species not got by 

 Wallace, and consequently about as many of Wallace's species have not been sent 

 by him. Of these three are here described as new, and of them two, Carpophaga 

 sasakensis and Chlorura intermedia, have decided Javanese affinities, while the 

 third is evidently nearest related to a Celebes species, but it is clearly rather 

 of a Malayan than an Australian character. Of the others six are Javanese forms ; 

 four are generally distributed over the Malayan and Austro-Malayan islands, but 

 are not Australian ; three are known from Flores and Timor ; one from Flores 

 alone ; two from Timor alone ; one from Sambawa only, but is very closely allied to 

 the forms from Flores and Timor ; one, Trichoglossus mitckelli, is probably confined 

 to Lombok, and it is of very distinct Australian (or Timorese) relations, no 

 Trichoglossus reaching to Indian or purely Malayan regions. Dr. VordermaLi, 

 in Natuurk. Tijdschr. v. Nederl.-Indie, Vol. LIV., mentions fifty-one species as 

 noticed by him in Lombok. Most of these were collected by him, but a few were 

 only seen. A large kingfisher has been described by Vorderman as " Pelargopsis 

 sasak nov. subspec." It is very doubtful whether this bird is distinct from 

 P. gurial Jtoresiana, the only difference I can gather from the description being 

 the want of the green wash on the head, and this being absent in younger birds 

 ofjlorestana (see p. 570). The sex of Vorderman's bird is not stated, nor that of 

 the types of the Jtoresiana in the British Museum. On the other hand, the 

 length of the bill given by Vorderman (culmen 89 mm.) is rather against its 

 being a young bird. 



V. LIST OF COLLECTIONS FROM SAMBAWA. 



Mr. Doherty sent two collections from Sambawa (or Surnbawa), a small one from 

 low country near Bima, on the north coast of Eastern Sambawa, and a larger one 

 from the Peninsula of Tambora, in about the middle of the north coast, partly 

 collected in the lowlands, partly on the slopes of the high volcano of Tambora, but 

 mostly not higher than about 3000 feet. Unfortunately a long letter about the nature 

 of Tambora, the collections made there and the adventures of the collectors on the 

 mountain, " has been lost or mislaid by the messenger I sent it with from 

 Swdla, at any rate it never reached the hands of the controleur (Dutch official) at 

 Labuan-Hadji, who was to post it to Europe," writes Doherty. 



The birds from Bima were shot in February, those from Tambora in April and 

 May. 



* His Cisticola ruficeps and C. lineocapilla are both what is now called C. exills. 



