IN TIMOB-LAUT. 363 



Supra nitide purpurascenti-nigrum ; subtus album coccineo perfusum ; 

 hypochondriis olivaceo mixtis ; subalaribus et renii(/um pogoniis internis 

 albis ; rostro et pedibus nigris : long, iota 3 ' 6, alw 2 ■ 0, caudos 1 ■ 1. 

 Eab. Larat et Lutur. 



Ohs. Similis 7). keiensi et D. ignicolli, sed ventre toto coccineo perfuso 

 distinctum. 



'J here are two " male " examples of this Dicceum in the present collection 

 — one from Larat (1.8.82) and one from Lutur (19.9.82). Both are 

 labelled, " Irides dark brown ; legs and feet black." 



35. Myzomela ANNABELLiB, Sclatcr ; fiig. in Gould, ' B. N. Guin.,' Pt. 16. 

 Nigra ; capite cum gutture toto undique et dorso postico coccineis ; ventre 



medio et remigum marginibus externis strictissimis olivaceis ; subalaribus 

 et remigum pogoniis internis albis; rostro et pedibus nigris : long, tota 

 3"5, alcB 2'0, caudcB 1'3. 

 Hob. Lutur, Timor-laut. 



Obs. Sp. ad M. erythrocephalam. et species huic aflBncs adjungenda, 

 corpore coloris nigro et crassitie minore insignis. 



The single specimen was obtained September 22nd at Lutu. It is 

 marked "Male: irides dark brown : bill black; legs and feet dirty green." 

 I have named it by, request of the discoverer, after his wife, who 

 accompanied him in his perilous travels. 



36. Stigmatops salvaboeii, Meyer, op. cit. 



Stigmatops squamata, Salvad. Sclater, P. Z. S., 1883, p. 198. 



Nectarinia sp. inc. Sclater, P. Z. S., 1883, p. 51. 

 One of the most frequently met with birds. Feeds at the cocoanut flowers. 

 The [first instalment of the] collection contained two skins in bad condition 

 (marked " ? ") which I thought might probably be referable to a female of 

 some species of Nectarinia. The [second instalment] comprehends nine 

 specimens of the same bird of both eexes. It is evidently a Melipliagine 

 bird of the genus Stigmatops, and, so far as l' can tell, without actual 

 comparison with the types, inseparable from i*?. squamata of Salvadori. 

 This species was discovered by Rosenberg on Khor Island between the 

 Ke group and Ceram-laut, and may therefore probably also occur in the 

 Tenimber group from which Khor lies not very far north. 



37. Philemon timoblaoensis, Meyer. 



P. plumigenis, Sclater, P. Z. S., 1883, p. 199. 



Philemon timorlaoensis is the name proposed by Pr. Meyer for the 

 species designated P. plumigenis by Sclater (P. Z. S., 1883, pp. 51 & 195). 

 The Timor-laut bird certainly differs from that from Ke, but the 

 differences are scarcely to be formulated in words. The Tenimber bird 

 peems intermediate between the Burn and K6 birds. Dr. Gadow, in the 

 9th vol. of the Cat. of Birds, has not separated the species, nor has Mr. 

 Sharpe, in the 16th part of Gould's " Birds of New Guinea," though he 

 has expressed doubts as to their identity. [H. 0. F.] 



38. ZoSTEKors GKiSEiVENTBis, Sclater. 



Supra Icete viridis, annulo periophthalmico distincto albo ; alis caudaque 

 nigricantibus viridi limbatis ; subtus pallide grisea, in ventre medio 

 aibicantior, gula et crisso flavis ; sub'ilaribus et remigum marginibus 

 internis albis, campterio flavido ; rostro pallide corneo, pedibus pallide 

 fuscis ; long, tota 4'7, aloe 2"5, caudce 1'7. 



Eah. Larat, Lutur, et Molu insulas Tenimberenses. 



There are sixteen specimens of this apparently new Zosterops in the 



