1883.] TIMOR LAUT AND THE MOLUCCAS. 589 



white, the rest of the underparta white, the feathers on the flanks 

 broadly tipped with crescentic spots of black ; axillaries, basal half 

 white, terminal half black ; under wing-coverts, basal half brown, 

 terminal half white ; basal half of inner web of secondaries and basal 

 portion of many of the primaries white ; upper mandible sooty grey, 

 lower yellow ; irides ash-brown ; legs, feet, and claws pale flesh-colour. 

 Wing 4| inches, tail 3-2, culmen I "05, tarsus 14. (No. in collection 

 583 g.) _ _ 



I propose that this new species should bear the name mackiJci, 

 as a slight mark of remembrance of Dr. Julius Machik, of Buda- 

 Pesth, Surgeon-Captain in the Dutch Army, and of appreciation 

 of his extreme kindness and hospitality, and of the very great 

 assistance rendered by him to me in Sumatra, and more especially in 

 Amboina to ray wife and myself, both before and after our return 

 from the Tenimber Islands. Dr. Machik is well known in the Ar- 

 chipelago for his extensive collections, especially of MoUusca and 

 fishes. 



In the Society's 'Proceedings,' 1883, p. 56, the " Geocickla sp. 

 inc.," recorded by Mr. Sclater (in describing my Timor-Laut collec- 

 tions), with a note by Mr. Seebohm, was an immature specimen of 

 G. machi/ci. The present specimen, having been inadvertently mislaid 

 among Amboina skins, was not transmitted, I regret to say, along 

 with my Tenimber collections. It will be added, however, to the 

 set selected by the British-Association Committee, and presented by 

 them to the British Museum. 



I have also to remark on another of the Tenimber birds collected 

 by me, and described and figured by Mr. Sclater (P. Z. S. 1883, 

 p. 198), as a new species under the name of Pachycephala fusco- 

 fiava. I much regret that by an oversight this specimen also, the 

 only specimen of the adult male of the bird obtained by me, should 

 have been retained behind, having become mixed with the Amboina 

 specimens of that family in my own collection. It will be seen from 

 the specimen now exhibited (Plate LIII.), that the male Pachycephala 

 fusco-fiava (no. 572 on label) previously figured by Mr. Sclater is an 

 immature bird, in which, however, on closer examination traces of 

 the black colour of the top of the head are discernible on one or 

 two of the small feathers. 



I exhibit also an apparently somewhat rare bird, as I find it is 

 unrepresented in the National collection — Tanygnathus gramineus, 

 from the island of Boeroe ; also a specimen of Megalurus amboi- 

 nensis from Amboina ; and lastly, I have the pleasure of laying on 

 the table specimens of the new Myzomela which I had the satisfac- 

 tion of discovering in Boeroe, and which I have already described 

 as M. wakuloensis (see P. Z. S. 1883, p. 115). 



Proc. Zool. See— 1883, No, XXXIX. 39 



