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The ornithology of Sambawa has hitherto only very imperfectly been known. 

 The Leyden Museum possesses some birds from there, collected in the first half of 

 this century by Forsten, near Bima, and a few of them were described long ago by 

 Bonaparte (Chibia bimaensis, Trichoglossus forsteni). 



The naturalists of the yacht Marquesa landed on the north coast, wishing to 

 ascend the mountain of Tambora, but they did not succeed, and collected only a few 

 days on the island. Dr. Guillemard nevertheless gave a list of the species of birds 

 obtained in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London for 1885, enumer- 

 ating thirty-eight species. 



Nearly all of these have also been met with by Doherty, who sent sixty-five 

 species, adding no less than thirty-four species to the Sambawa list, of which one 

 and one subspecies are here described as new. 



The species which have not hitherto been registered from Sambawa, as far as 

 I know, are marked with an asterisk. 



The newly added species are mostly known from other islands of the so-called 

 Timor group of islands; the others are rather Indo-Malayan elements, only one, Falco 

 lunulatus, being of Australian origin. 



1. Pratincola caprata (L.). 

 Low country at Bima and Tambora. 



*2. Geocichla interpres (Temm.). 

 Tambora at 2000 feet. Not different from the Lombok specimens. 



*3. Geocichla dohertyi Hartert. 

 (See antea, p. 555.) In the hills of Tambora at about 3000 feet. 



*4. Phylloscopus borealis (Bias.). 



Bima and Tambora, low country and at 3000 feet. Males with wings 7072 

 mm., a, female wing 63 mm. 



It is quite possible that two forms, a larger and a smaller, migrate in winter to 

 these islands, for in our other specimens the sexual difference in size is not so 

 large. 



*5. Brachypteryx leucophrys (Temm.). 



Tambora, 3000 fet. " Iris dark brown ; beak black, pale below ; feet pale slaty 

 grey." There is a good deal of variation in these little birds, some being much more 

 rufous, others more olive, the middle of the throat and abdomen being sometimes 

 quite white, sometimes very much washed with pale brown. 



6. Parus atriceps Horsf. 



Bima and Tambora, low country and up to an elevation of 3000 feet. 

 (Parus cinereus of Guillemard's list.) 



*7. Dicaeum igniferum Wall. 



Tambora, low country and at 3000 feet. 



cJ. " Iris dark brown ; beak black ; feet blackish." Wings of the males 50 52 

 mm., of the females 49 mm. These measurements are a little larger than those given 

 in the Cat. B. Brit. Mus. X. p. 19, from Flores specimens. 



