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species discovered by Mr. Forbes all are of Papuan genera, and nearly 

 allied to known Papuan species except the Strix, -which appears to be a 

 diminutive form of an Australian type,- and the Myiagra, which is nearest 

 io a Timor form; the Oeocichla machikiis most nearly allied to a Timor 

 bird. There is also in the collection one other Timor bird, Erythrura 

 tricolor, which is not found in New Guinea or the Moluccas. . 1 think, 

 therefore, we may fairly say that the Tenimberese Avifauna is pre- 

 eminently Papuan, varied only by a slight element from Timor (repi:e- 

 sented by Erythrura tricolor, Myiagra falviventris, and the Geocichla), and 

 by an Australian tinge shown by the Sirix, and perhaps by MondrcJia 

 nitidus being present (as in the Aru Islands) instead of M. chalybeo- 

 cephalus. 



AUSTRALIA 



skilt0h-3iap of the eegion, sikjwrxg the geogbapiiioal eblations op tee 



tenijibek geol-p. 



(with the kint) pekmission op the council op the anthropological 



institute.) 



That the Tenimber group would possess a certain number of peculiar 

 endemic forms was also to be expected, from their isolated situation, and 

 the deep channel around them.' Altogether these are 29 [now 30] in 

 number, namely the 27 [28] species above described as new, and two 

 Parrots {Eos reticulata and Jiclectus riedeli) previously known." [H. 0. F.] 



IV. — On the Collection o/ Reptiles and Batb,acbi\H8 from the Timor-laut 

 Islands, formed by Mr. H. 0. Forbes. By G. A. Botjlenger, F.Z.S. 



(From Proc. Zool. Soc. London, June 5, 1883. PI. XLI., XLII.) 



. The Eeptiles and Batrachians collected by Mr. Forbes in the Timor- 

 laut Islands, and presented to the British Museum by the British As- 

 sociation, belong to seventeen species, which, with the exception of two 

 new to science, were already well known from different parts of the 

 Austro-Malayan sub-region. The two new species are a Lizard of the 

 Australian genus Lophugnathus, Gray, and a Snake of the Indian, genus 



