164 Mr. F. Nicholson on some Birds from Western Java. 



XII. On a Collection of Birds made by the late Mr. E. C. But- 

 ton in Western Java. By FRANCIS NICHOLSON,, F.Z.S. 



THE unfortunate dispersion of Mr. Wallace's valuable Javan 

 collection without the publishing of a scientific record of 

 its contents has been a source of regret to many ornitho- 

 logists, since no complete list of the birds of this island has 

 yet been compiled. Feeling sure that the time is not far dis- 

 tant when a work on the Javan avifauna will be a necessity, 

 I venture to put forward a small contribution to this work, 

 by giving a list of the birds collected for me in Western Java 

 by my late friend Mr. E.G. Buxton. The collection was made 

 in that part of Java opposite Lampong, in Sumatra, where 

 Mr. Buxton obtained the important collection of skins de- 

 scribed by the Marquis of Tweeddale in ' The Ibis ' for 1877, 

 p. 283. Owing to want of time the birds were put into spirit, 

 but have been cleverly manipulated since their arrival in 

 England, and have turned out very fair specimens. I have 

 followed Lord Tweeddale's paper as closely as possible, desi- 

 ring to make the present essay, an account of Mr. Buxton's 

 Javan collection, a supplement to his Sumatran collection 

 described by the Marquis, to whose labours I am substantially 

 indebted. I have also to thank Mr. Bowdler Sharpe, of the 

 British Museun, for assisting me in my identifications ; and I 

 have placed a complete series of the skins in the collection of 

 that institution. I have also given references to Count Sal- 

 vadorr's ' Uccelli di Borneo/ by far the most complete work 

 on the avifauna of the Indo-Malayan region. 



TlGA JAVANENSIS. 



Tiff a javanensis (Ljungh), Salvad. Ann. Mus. Genov. v. 

 p. 54; Tweedd. Ibis, 1877, p. 288. 



Meiglyptes tristis, Horsfield, Tr. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 177. 



A pair of birds, concerning which a few remarks are neces- 

 sary. I compared them with the series of Meiglyptes in the 

 British Museum j and I cannot allow that, if, as seems certain, 

 I have before me the true M. tristis of Horsfield, the Ma- 

 laccan and Bornean birds usually called M. tristis are really 



