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61. G-eopelia maugei (Temm.). 



Low country of Tainbora. c?. "Iris whitish ; eyelids ochreous ; beak bluish 

 grey; feet purplish grey, claws paler." 



*62. Columba metallica Temm. 



Two males and one female from Tambora, at 3000 feet, the males with wings 

 of 232 and 242 mm., ike female with the wings 223 mm. " Iris orange-yellow; eye- 

 lids and basal two-thirds of beak dark red, terminal third ochreous horn-colour; 

 feet beet-red, soles and claws whitish or whitish flesh-colour." 



63. Chalcophaps indica (L.). 

 From the low country. 



*64. Gallus varius Shaw & Nodd. 



Tambora, low country and at 3000 feet. 



" Male adult. Eyes ochreous orange ; maxilla dark brown, with pale tip ; 

 mandible pale horn-colour ; naked parts of head dark red ; wattle on chin rich 

 ochreous ; feet sordid brown ; comb violet, greenish at base. Female: eye pale 

 orange ; feet whitish ; beak brown, pale at base." 



*65. Megapodius duperreyi Less. & Gam. 



In the hills of Tambora at about 3000 feet above the sea. Male adult. " Iris 

 reddish brown ; beak deep ochre ; culmen dark ; feet orange ; scutellae of toes and 

 tarsus in front dark brown ; claws blackish." 



VI. ON BIRDS FROM SATONDA. 



Doherty writes : 



" The island of Satonda or Sitonda lies three miles off the coast of Northern 

 Sambawa. I think it must be some three miles across, and consists of a large 

 lake of immense depth, and almost inaccessible on account of the high cliffs 

 round it, enclosed as it is by a ring of steep hills, ranging up to 1500 feet. It is 

 partly pasture, partly forest. The island is greatly feared by the Tambora people 

 on account of its enormous pythons. One I saw was about twenty-five feet long. 

 Ram Persad shot one rather bigger, I imagine, and I saw the excreta of one con- 

 taining the bones of a full-grown deer ; that snake must have been a monster. 

 Deer abound on the island, and so do pigs. The birds that inhabit Satonda are 

 partly different ones from those on the mainland, as so often happens on small 

 detached islands. There are Nicobar pigeons, not met with in Sambawa. As you 

 will see, there are quite a number of species that are not found in Sambawa. There 

 are Turnix powelli, of which I send both sexes ; there are some Eudynamis which 

 are very puzzling ; Caprimulgiis macrurus and Carpophaga rosacea were shot, while 

 Caprimulgus affinis and Carpophaga aene were found instead on Sambawa." 

 No birds have been recorded from Satonda before. 



1. Cisticola cisticola (Temm.). 

 Several specimens, in rather abraded and poor plumage. 



