14 MR. R. G. WARDLAW-RAMSAY ON [Jan. 6, 



having heard so good a report from the natives ; bat nevertheless 

 he obtained several species which had not been previously procured 

 by him. He was encamped in the midst of a virgin forest, where, 

 as he describes it, no human being was living. Here all his servants 

 got fever, and then he himself was seized ; and so he was obliged to 

 strike his camp and retire to a place called Lolo, at 3500 feet. This 

 latter place he made his headquarters for the remainder of his 

 sojourn in the island, and here formed a considerable portion of his 

 collections. 



Mr. Bock, in his letters to Lord Tweeddale, much regretted not 

 having provided himself with small shot, as without it he was not 

 able to obtain good specimens of the smaller species. The absence 

 of small birds from the collection is remarkable, the interesting 

 family of the Timeliidae being, with the exception of the larger genera 

 Garrulax, Trochalopteron, &c., entirely unrepresented. 



As I hope, when sufficient leisure is at my command, to treat the 

 subject more fully, I abstain from publishing at the present time a 

 full list of Mr. Bock's collection, but take the opportunity of making 

 a few remarks upon it, and also of bringing to notice three apparently 

 undescribed species. 



The collection forwarded by Mr. Bock was made between the 

 months of August 1878 and January 1879, in tlie same part of 

 Sumatra as that in which Dr. Beccari was working in the months of 

 June to September in the former year. One of its chief points of 

 interest is that it contains examples of several migratory species, 

 such as Turdus sibiricus, Pallas, and Phylloscopus horealis, Blasius, 

 which would only occur in the winter season, and would not, there- 

 fore, have been met with by Dr. Beccari. 



Mr. Bock's collection contains about 800 specimens, which are 

 referable to 166 species. Of these 32 are not included in the hsts 

 of the Marquis of Tweeddale (Ibis, 1877, pp. 283-323) or of Count 

 T. Salvadori (Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 1879, pp. 109-253) ; they are 

 as follows : — 



1. Neopus malayensis, Temm. ex Reinwardt. 

 *2. Accipiter stevensoni, Gurney. 



* 



o. 



Milvus ffovinda, Sykes. 



4. Caloramphus hayi, J. E. Gray. 



5. Anthraeoceros malayanus (Raffles). 



6. Hydrocisaa convexa (Temm.). 



7. Merops philippinus, Linn. 



8. Cypselus subfurcatus, Blyth. 



9. Collocalia francica (Gmelin). 

 10. Eurylcemus javanicus, Horsfield. 



*11. Niltava grandis (Blyth). 



*12. Xanthopygia cyunomelcena (Temm.). 



13. Bhringa remifer (Temm.). 



14. Phyllorms media, Bonap. ex Miiller MS. 



15. Crviigfir gtittnralis (Miiller). 



16. Lridin sqiiamatu (Temm.). 



