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A NATUBALIST'S WANDEMINGS 



spdeies discovered hy Mr. Forbes all are of Papuan genera, and nearly 

 allied to bBOwn Papuan species except the Siri^^, which appears to be a 

 diminutive form of an Australian type, and the if^%m, which is nearest 

 to a Timor form; the Qtocichia machiki ia most nearly allied to a Timor 

 bird. There is alao in the collection one other Timor bird, Eryihrura 

 tricotor, which is not found in Kew Guinea or the Moluccaa. I tMnk, 

 therefore, we may fairly say that the Tenimterese Avifauna is pre« 

 eminently Papuan, varied only by a shght element from Timor (repre- 

 sented by £rr/thrura trimhr, Myiagra fu^viventris, and the GeocieMa), and 

 by an Australian tinge shown by the Strix, md perhaps by Mmarcha 

 nitidus being present (aa in the Ara Islands) instead of M. ehalyheo- 

 ecphaita. 



SKETCH-HAP OF THE BEGIOS, SnoWlNG THE GEOGRAPfflCAI. RELATIONS OF Tnlt 



(Wim TRE HHB PKBMlflSIOl? OF THE COUNCIL OF THE AMTHBOPOLOGICAL 



IJfSTnTTK.) 



That the Tenimber group would poraess a certain number of peculiar 

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

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

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

 Parrots {Eos rdietdaia and hctectm rted^i) previously known,** [H, 0, F.] 



lY. — On the Cc^eetiofi ©/"Eeptiles and BATRAOHlAKB/row the THmor-Iattt 

 Islands t formtd by Mr, H. O. Forbes. By G. A* Bodlengeb, F.Z.S. 



(From Froc- Zool. Soo» London, June 5, 1883. PL XLI., XLII.) 



The Eeptiles and Batraobians collected by Hfr. Forbes in the Timor- 

 Jaut Iplands, and presented to the British Museum by the British As- 

 sociation, belong to seventeen species, wlucli, with the exf^ption of two 

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

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

 Australian genus topht^gnathm. Gray, and a Snake of the Indian gentis 



