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yellower breast-band — were characters of youth, as was clearly 

 shown by the series of these small Flycatchers in the British 

 Museum. 



Mr. Erwin Stresemann (introduced by Dr. Habtert) 

 exhibited some of the Parrots collected by him during the 

 second " Freiburger Molukken-Expedition/' and made the 

 following remarks : — 



" 1. Prioniturus mada Hartert was common on the moun- 

 tains of Buru above 3500 feet, and was observed flying 

 about in flocks. This species had been hitherto only known 

 from three specimens, all apparently females; the male 

 remained unknown. 



" 2. Eos semilarvata Bonap. During the ascent of the 

 Gunung Pinaia, the highest mountain of Ceram (8250 feet), 

 a series of this species was collected at elevations between 

 5000 and 6000 feet. This bird had been described by 

 Bonaparte in 1850, but its habitat was hitherto unknown. 



" 3. Trichoglossus hcematodus mitchelli Gray. The home 

 of this Parrot was also unknown for many years, but 

 in 1896 Doherty and Everett discovered it on Lombok. 

 1 was fortunate' in finding it also on the Island of Bali." 



With regard to the zoo-geographical relations of Bali, 

 as shown by its Ornis, he said that of the 151 species now 

 known to occur on that island, and of which a list would be 

 published in the ' Novitates Zoological/ a great number were 

 also found in Java, but not elsewhere. Two species (Gracupica 

 tertia Hartert and Trichoglossus hcematodus mitchelli Gray) 

 were confined to Bali and Lombok, while six other species 

 extended over a number of the islands forming the Lesser 

 Sunda Chain as far west as Bali, but were not found in 

 Java. Only five forms were confined to the island of 

 Bali. Although tlie strait of Lombok, through which 

 " Wallace's line' 5 passed, did not form a sharp boundary of 

 two faunal regions, recent explorations had shown that the 

 difference of the Ornis of the two islands of Bali and Lombok 

 was greater than that between any other two islands of the 

 Sunda Chain from Timor to Sumatra. 



