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though the season should have been right, and the country was beautiful fine 

 forest of enormous trees, the largest I have seen in the East, I think. Of the birds 

 about one-half are from low country, and the other half from the mountains, mostly 

 from a place named Gitgit, from 2000 to 4000 feet." With regard to the birds 

 collected in Bali, he writes : " I imagine that the Balinese fauna is very much 

 smaller than the Javanese ; many whole genera of conspicuous forms, which one 

 cannot easily overlook, not extending so far East, The problem regarding Bali is, 

 of course, how many forms of the Timor group extend so far West, and whether 

 these forms are the remains of an original fauna of Australian affinities, or are merely 

 immigrants from Lombok, etc. The ancient stratified rocks of Southern Lombok 

 seem to be continued across the large table-topped island of Penida, in Lombok 

 Straits, to the peninsula of Badong, in S.E. Bali, where cockatoos are found, though 

 not commonly. Besides the Balinese birds sent, I also shot Corvus (Corone} 

 macrorhynclms and the magnificent Aquila (Neopus) malayensis, but did not think 

 them worth sending. Of a Motacilla we got eight females (two sent), but never 

 a male" 



The following list is the first list of Bali birds ever published, so far as I know, 

 as Wallace stayed in the island not more than two days, and collected there only a 

 few birds.* This list is therefore particularly interesting, and it is sufficiently large 

 to allow some comparison with the Lombok list, which will follow thereafter. 



The very careful notes on the colour of the eyes, bill, feet, etc., of the birds have 

 in nearly every case been copied verbatim, and added in signs of quotation. 



From all we can see, the u sexing" is done with the greatest care. 



The Bali collection was brought together in March and April. 



1. Greocichla rubecula Gould. 



c? ad. Bali, low country. " Eyes deep umber; bill black ; feet pale brownish 

 horn-colour ; claws dark brown " (W. Doherty). c? juv. in first plumage, but wing- 

 quills and rectrices evidently already moulted. Top of the head and back brown, with 

 rusty shaft-stripes ; rump and upper tail-coverts uniform brown ; chin and upper 

 throat pale rusty ; feathers of the chest, breast, and abdomen pale rusty rufous, with 

 bases and tips blackish ; under tail-coverts white, blackish at base. 



Geocichla rubecula Gould has hitherto only been known from Java. It differs 

 from G. citrina of India in being smaller (wing of the Bali skin 110 mm.), of a 

 darker grey above, of a very much deeper rufous on the head and below. Perhaps 

 the white patch on the upper wing-coverts is also larger. The male from Bali is like 



* I am much obliged to Mr. Wallace, who most kindly gave me the following list of the birds collect-d 

 by him in Bali on June 13th and 14th, 1856. which I publish here, using his own name-*. They are : 

 Copsychus amocnvs, Oriolus horsficldi, Megilaema rosea, Chrysonotus tiga, tititrnopastor jalla, Ploee-i* 

 hypoxanthiis, Miinln pum-tnlaria, Ptllotis Limbata. 



A skin of the latter species from the Gould collection has been enumerated in the Catalogue of Birds, 

 IX. p. 237, as collected in Bali by Mr. Wallace, but as this author (Malay Archipelago, I. p. 203) expressly 

 says that MdiphayiiJae were not found in Bali, I supposed an error with regard to the skin in the Museum, 

 and wrote to Mr. Wallace for an explanation, and this is what he most kindly answered me : " I am very 

 glad you wrote to me about the Ptllotis limbata, because I seem myself to have overlooked the fact that I 

 found it in Bali. The reason must be, I think, that. I only obtained one specimen there, and by some 

 mistake of my agent it got misplaced from my private collection (which was afterwards placed iu the 

 British Museum), and was bought by Mr. Gould. I find in my original notes that Ptilotis limbata was 

 obtained by me both in Bali and Lombok, and s-pecimens frum both localities should have been kept in my 

 private collection. When I came home, not finding the species among my skins from Bali, I must have 

 forgotten the fact, and thus made the mistake you refer to in my Malay Archipelago.'" 



