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extends from the mountains of British New Guinea, where 
it was obtained by Giulianetti, Sir William Macgregor’s 
Collector, through the Arfak mountains, in the N. W. of New 
Guinea and thence to East and West Java and to Sumatra. 
On the other hand Salvadori and Rothschild regard the New 
Guinea Bird as distinct. 
There are in any event enormous gaps in the distribution as 
ascertained at present for the species is not known to occur in 
the mountains of Central Dutch New Guinea, nor in the 
lesser Sunda islands or Sumba, though the intervening island 
of Obi Major is inhabited by a somewhat allied form, Neosco- 
lopax rochussem. The bird, however, is so retiring in its habits 
and lives in such difficult country that it is not improbable 
that several of the intervening peaks of sufficient elevation 
will ultimately be found to harbour it, notably some of the 
Timor Volcanoes, which attain a height of nearly 10,000 feet. 
Of these three specimens, the first was shot by one of our 
Dyaks in a patch of swampy forest near our lower camp, 
the second was obtained in a brake of tangled bracken on a 
ridge near the forest limit and the third was knocked over 
with a stick by a Korinchi cooly. This bird was accompanied 
by two or three chicks which were not obtained. 
The measurements of the three specimens, taken in the 
flesh, were as follows : 
a b c ad é 
3 3 ? ? ? 
mm. mm mm, mm. mm, 
Total length 50 282 282 296 310 314 
Wing de o6 154 155 150 16% 151 
Tail Pe bc 63 57 60 67 57 
Tarsus. fe oi 33-5 32 36 35 36 
Bill from gape D6 64 63 68 74 71 
Specimensdanderecently collected on the Gedeh, Western 
Java, and therefore typical S. satwrata,.agree fairly well with 
the Sumatran birds though the bill is somewhat longer while 
the white in the centre of the abdomen is more extensive. 
The differences, however, are not sufficient to justify the 
separation of the Sumatran form in the absence of really large 
series. 
15. Rhyacophilus glareola (Gm.). 
Totanus glaveola, Gm.; Vorderman, Nat. Tijd. Nederl. Ind. 
xlix, p. 416, no. 446 (1889). 
Rhyacophilus glaveola (Gm.); Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. 
XXIV, p. 491 (1896). 
a. 1 $. Sungei Penoh, Korinchi Valley, Sumatra, 
2,600 feet. 11th March, 1914 [No. 61.] 
“Tris dark, bill black, brownish at base, feet yellowish 
olive.” 
Fairly common during the earlier months of our visit in 
the rice fields and waste spaces by the water courses. 
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