N k-Qi 691 M4H3 UC-NRLF THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESENTED BY PROF. CHARLES A. KOFOID AND MRS. PRUDENCE W. KOFOID [From " Novitates ZoQlogicae:' Vol. HI. December, 1 'jU4 32: LOCISCH A. BUITENZORQ. [.From " Novitatea Zoologicae" Vol. III. December, 1896. AN ACCOUNT OF THE COLLECTIONS l<- RDS MADE BY MR. WILLIAM DOHERTY IN THE EASTERN ARCHIPELAGO. BY ERNST HARTERT. (Plates XI. and XII.). I. -INTRODUCTION. T ITTLE did I dream when in J888, coming from the Kinta District in the L^ interior of Perak in the Mala}7 Peninsula, by a most fortunate accident I met the then already well-known entomologist Mr. William Doherty, who was just leaving Thaiping for Padang Ringas, that he might eventually become one of the most energetic ornithological collectors of the end of the century. He travelled then without a gun, and afterwards when we made together our pleasant trip to Upper Assam he never showed any inclination to collect birds. Only about a year ago in Tring, before leaving for his present journey, he decided that he would also try to collect birds. As he was going to start for some of the most interesting places of the Dutch East Indies, Mr. Rothschild and I were very glad to hear of his plans, and we tried to instruct our friend as much as we could in the few days' time there was. We did not know to what extent the bird-collecting would be carried out, but our expectations were not too great, as we hardly thought the great field of entomology which Doherty cultivated would allow him much time for vertebrates also. Now, to judge from the rich material of birdskins he sent to the Tring Museum in less than nine months' time, and considering that they are his first attempts, it would seem that Doherty is destined to become one of the most successful ornithological collectors of our days. Part of his success is probably due to the fact that he follows our advice in searching chiefly for the less conspicuous little forms, which are passed over by many of the collectors, and to the truly astonishing amount of special ornithological knowledge he acquired, and which enables him to look out for the more interesting forms in their proper places. II.— ON BIRDS FROM EAST JAVA. ( With footnote on a new genus by the Hon. Walter Rothschild.) Doherty 's first trip in 1896 was one of about two weeks to Mount Arjuno, an enormous old volcano in the eastern part of Java, south of Surabaya, which he ascended to the top. He writes : " Birds are very scarce on the top of Arjuno, and the weather was dreadful. I send only about sixteen species taken from 8300 to over 10,000 feet, the upper part of the mountain from 10,000 to 11,000 feet having produced nothing. I was camping in a hut in a valley, called Lali Jiwo, 8300 feet high, the highest building in Java, and collected up to the summit of Arjuno, 11,000 feet, and the crater of Welirang, 10,000 feet, where I got some of the best birds. I am sorry to say that some of them do not seem to be really high-elevation species, but may have come from below, as Aethopyga mystacalts and Buchanga cineracea, but some must be very rare." I give a full list of these birds, as we know really very little of the exact altitudes and localities of many of the Javan birds, and as there are some rare and new species in this first little bird-collection of Mr. Doherty. These birds were all collected in January. M3>?« 272 36 fW-H-3 ( 538 ) 1. Merula javanica (Horsf.). Mount Arjuno at 8000 and 8300 feet. Wings in three adult males 125, 125, 128 mm. See Biittikofer's notes on this bird in Notes Ley den Museum, XV. p. 107 (1893). I have here retained, for the sake of convenience, the generic name " Merula " for this bird, though I do not now believe that there is any scientific foundation for that genus. 2. Cettia montana (Horsf.). Differs from C. oreophila Sharpe from Kina Balu in Borneo in having a shorter tarsus and being less brown above. Differs from C. seebohmi Grant of Luzon in having a much more olive and less rufous tail, wings, and forehead, from C. cantillans and its allies in being smaller and more of a dark olive colour. It is dark brownish olive above from the forehead to the tip of the tail. Below whitish, with a brown wash along the sides of the body and across the middle of the breast. Wing-quills deep brownish olive, with narrow brown margins to the outer webs, and whitish borders to the inner webs. Under wing-coverts white. In the rather full and broad wing the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh primaries are almost equal and longest. Wing : <$ 53, $ 49 mm. ; tail : c? 57 ( $ not measurable on account of moult) ; tarsus 21 ; culmen 14 mm. One cT from an elevation of 7500, one ? from between 9000 and 10,000 feet, on Mount Arjuno, East Java, in January 1896. This is the Sylvia montana of Horsfield. It is quite omitted from the Catalogue of Birds, and the only mention I can find of it is that it is quoted, without explana- tion, as Cettia montana (Horsf.) in Whitehead's Exploration of Kina Balu, p. 258. The type of Horsfield's S. montana is in the British Museum, and it is evidently the same as the bird from Arjuno, so I think it the best course to accept Horsfield's name, to avoid synonyms, though one would be fully justified to do away with Horsfield's name altogether, and to doubt the identity of the skin in the British Museum with Horsfield's type, as the description of the underparts (" olivacea- testacea") is totally wrong. This is what Mr. Grant wrote me about the species, and I have, besides, examined the specimens myself:— Cettia montana (Horsf.). Sylvia montana Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. XIII. p. 156 (1821). Although no mention of this species is made in the Catalogue of Birds, Vol. V., there is, in addition to Horsfield's type, a second example in the British Museum collected by Wallace in 1861 and marked "$. West Java." In the type the shape of the wing is as follows : first primary quill much shorter than the second ; second much shorter than the third, which is about equal to the tenth; sixth slightly the longest. In Wallace's specimen the wings and tail are in moult, but the shape of the wing appears to be similar to the above. In both specimens the whitish eye-brow stripe, commencing above the lores and extending above the ear-coverts, is well marked ; the middle of the throat and breast pale whitish buff, inclining to whitish on the belly; the sides of the chest and breast, the sides, flanks, and under tap -coverts brownish buff; the upper parts, including the wings and tail, dark browi ish olive ; and the cheeks and sides of the throat are similar, but the basal ( 539 ) part of the feathers inclines to whitish buff, giving these parts a suffused brownish buff appearance. The type of C. montana (Horsf.) measures : total length 5'1 inches ; wing 2-2 ; tail 2-25 ; tarsus 0-88. The male type of G. oreophila Sharpe measures : total length 4-8 inches ; wing 2-1 ; tail 2'25 ; tarsus 0'95. Both these species are most nearly allied to Cettia seebohmi Grant (cf. Ibis, 1894, pp. 507, 508). As in that species both have the sixth primary quill longest ; but C, seebohmi is easily distinguished by its rufous wings and nearly white under- parts. W. R. OGILVIE GRANT. 3. Pomatorhinus montanus Horsf. Several skins from elevations of from 8000 to nearly 10,000 feet. In all these the white stripe behind the eye is narrower than in nearly all the skins in the British Museum, and does not fully join the white feathers in front of the eye. These same peculiarities are visible in examples from Bali. If more material with exact localities becomes available it may turn out that Java is inhabited by several forms of this species. Stasiasticus * gen. nov. It is only with great hesitation that I create a new genus for this little bird, but there seems no help for it, as its structure does not agree with that of any other form known to me. It resembles very much the genus Androphilits Sharpe, but differs from it in having much smaller and feebler legs and feet, in having twelve, not ten, tail-feathers, and a somewhat differently shaped wing. I should have united it with Pseudotharraleus Grant (Ibis, 1895, pp. 448, 449), if it had not so considerably smaller and feebler legs and feet and a quite differently shaped wing. It is also, in my opinion, not very far from Cettia (Seebohm, Gat. B. Brit. Mus. V. p. 133), a genus of which I believe that it is wrongly placed in the Catalogue of Birds, the structure of its wing, the number of tail-feathers (ten), the eggs, and the rich plumage of the rump suggesting a place among the " Timeliidae" It differs, however, from Cettia in having twelve (not ten) tail-feathers, and no bristles on the gape.f os = seditious. — E. H. f When discussing with Mr. Hartert the affinities of the new Java bird I was struck with the apparent similarity of it and of some of the allied genera with Sjjkenoeacus, a genus which, in my opinion. belongs to the same group of Timeliidae, and which cannot stand very far from Pseudotharrah-us and Stasiasticus, the latter, however, being widely separated from it by the shorter, broader, and more rounded tail, and the less powerful feet. While investigating these questions I found that only the New Zealand species of Sphenocacwn have ten tail-feathers, the African ones not. The African species, besides having twelve tail-feathers, have the operculum over the nostrils bare of feathers, while it is feathered in the New Zealand ones ; the outer webs of the tail-feathers are fuller and more connected, while they are very lax and separate in the species from New Zealand, and have a longer and stronger wing. There is, therefore, no doubt that SpJienneacnx is not only placed wrong in the key given by Sharpe (fat. II. Jirit. Mits, VII. p. 93), but that it is more reasonably divided into two genera, as Sharpe would have done if he had counted the tail-feathers of the African Sphenocacus and noticed the other differences. The gf-neric name being founded on the African species, it becomes necessary to create a new name for the New Zealand group, which I propose to call Bowdleria gen. nov. in remembrance of Dr. Bowdler Sharpe's invaluable Catalogue of the Timeliidae. — WALTER ROTHSCHILD. ( 540 ) In this new genns the bill is shorter than the head, the nostrils in front of the feathers at the base of the bill, and protected by a membrane, but apparently (unless damaged by a string) rather open in front. The wing is short, round, and soft. The first primary is of about half the length of the second, the second a little more than three-quarters of the third, the fourth, fifth, and sixth subequal and longest, the seventh very little shorter than the sixth, the following ones gradually shorter; the secondaries as long and shorter than the second primary. Plumage rich and soft ; the upper and under tail-coverts full, broad, soft, and long, nearly or quite half as long .as the tail. Tarsus longer than toes ; tarsus covered with large scutellae, which in one of the two specimens are more fused on the upper part. Tail graduated ; rectrices broad, soft, and somewhat pointed at the tips. 4. Stasiasticus mentis sp. noy. cf. Above dark olive-brown with a rufous tinge, more visible on the back, upper wing-coverts, and outer edges of quills; tail more olive. Feathers of chin and upper throat white with blackish bases and tips, those of fore-neck blackish with whitish fringes ; breast and abdomen white along the middle. Sides of neck grey; sides of breast and abdomen olive-brown. Under wing-coverts dusky with dirty white borders. Under tail-coverts brown with white borders, the basal ones slightly tinged with rufous olive. L. t. ca. 155 mm. ; al. 55; caud. 66 ; rectr. exter. 33 ; tars. 20 ; culm. 13—14. Two specimens, both marked c?, from between 9000 and 10,000 feet, on Mount Arjuno. 5. Sitta azurea Less. Shot at 3000, 8000, and 9000 feet. Male and female do not differ if the birds before me are properly sexed. If they are, then the birds described as "females and immature birds " by Gadow, Cat. B. Brit. Mas. VIII. p. 357, are all immature birds, and not adult females. 6. Aethopyga mystacalis (Temm.). At 3000 feet. 7. Aethopyga eximia (Horsf.). At 9500 feet. 8. Chalcoparia singalensis (Gm.). One female, 3000 feet. Throat very dark. 9. Zosterops javanica (Horsf.), At nearly 10,000 feet. 10. Zosterops citrinella Bp. Two males, shot at 8000 and 10,000 feet above the sea, belong to Z. eitrinella of Timor, but they are also the same as Z. neglecta, Seebohm in Bull. B. 0. C. I. p. xxvi., and Whitehead, Explor. Mt. Kina Balu, App. p. 261 (1893). Z. neglecta has never been properly described, but only diagnosed as follows : " Similis Z. palpebrosae, sed magis olivasceus, et macula anteoculari obscuriore ( 541 ) distingnenda." Whitehead tells us that he collected it about 5500 feet high on the spurs of Bromo, an active volcano in Eastern Java. Had I not been able, thanks to the trouble Mr. Grant took for me, to see the types in the Seebohm collection, I could certainly not have known whether my birds were the same as Z. neglecta or not, but after having seen them I find that they are the same species, though the types are in worn plumage and not very old. They are greenish above, like Z. palpebrosa ; rump and upper tail-coverts lighter and more yellow. In front of the eyes is a distinct yellow spot, and from the base of the bill to the eye a black line. Chin and throat yellow, more golden on the upper throat. Abdomen and flanks very pale brownish, lighter and with an indistinct yellow line in the middle. Under tail-coverts pale yellow. Wing 57 — 58 mm.; tail 41 — 42 ; tarsus 16; culmen 13. 11. Pycnonotus bimaculatus (Horsf.). At 8000 and 9000 feet elevation. 12. Dicrurus cineraceus (Horsf.). One from 3000 and one from between 9000 and 10,000 feet. Gates in Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, I. p. 318, says that this species occurs from the Brahmaputra to Northern Tenasserim, that it " reappears " in Java, Lombok, and Palawan, and that it is " not found " in any portion of the Malay Peninsula. This statement may be, I am afraid, premature, as our knowledge of the ornis of the Malay Peninsula is not yet sufficient for such theories. The Tring Museum possesses one skin, collected by Col. Bingham in the Thoungyeen Valley, which seems to agree with our typical Java birds. 13. Dissemurus platurus (Vieill.). At 3000 feet. The racquets are distinctly twisted, and it is in my opinion impossible to unite this bird with the large Indian form, but it seems next to hopeless to clear up the synonymy of these forms. The present form may perhaps with more safety be called I), formosus Cab. Cf. Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. III. p. 258 ; Hart., NOVIT. ZOOL. I. p. 476, etc. 14. Pericrocotus miniatus (Temm.). One young male at 5oOO feet. 15. Graucalus larvatus (S. MtilL). Between 9000 and 10,000 feet. Both sexes. Sharpe's description of his supposed male in Cat. B. VI. p. 11, is that of a young male or a female, and the sexes are not alike, the male having the whole throat black, the female not (Hartert, Ornis, 1891). 16. Tephrodornis virgatus Sw. 3000 feet. 17. Stoparola indigo (Horsf.). c?, 3000 feet. 18. Muscicapula westermanni Sharpe. Between 9000 and 10,000 feet. ( 542 ) 19. Rhipidura euryura S. Mull. At 3000 feet (Biittik., Notes Ley den Mas. XV. p. 91). Genus Neomyias Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. IV. p. 342. 20. Collocalia linchi Horsf. & Moore. At 8000 feet. 21. Gecinus puniceus (Horsf.). At 3000 feet. Hargitt, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. XVIII. p. 65, has remarked that specimens from the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and Borneo have "the orbital region less dusky and the sides of the face and neck of a paler green." This I find not only to be true, but in addition to it I find that the back is more of a yellowish green, and the rump much more golden. I therefore think the Java form must be separated as Gecinus puniceus typicus, while the birds from Malacca, Borneo, and Sumatra (type) may be called Gecinus puniceus observandus subsp. nov. 22. Chotorhea javensis (Horsf.). 3000 feet. 23. Cyanops armillaris (Temm.). 3000 feet. These two barbets are named in this way in the Catalogue of Birds (Vol. XIX., Shelley), but I do not consider this generic separation useful or convenient, nor is there sufficient reason for it, I believe. 24. Ptilinopus porphyreus (Temm.). 1824. Columba porphyrea " Reinw." in Temm., PL Col. 106. 1827. C. roseicollis Wagl., Syst. Av. Columba, No. 27. Mount Arjuno, 3000 teet. In Cat. B. Brit. Mus. XXI. p. 75, Count Salvadori rejected the name porphyrea on account of there being a Columba porphyracea " Forst." published in 1821 ; but the two names are different enough, I think, to avoid confusion. III.— LIST OF THE BIRDS OF BALI. Doherty writes from Bali, March 12th : " Last night we arrived here from Sumba in a thoroughly exhausted state, partly from hard work under unusually hard conditions, and partly from a storm, the most tremendous I have ever weathered, which made it very difficult for us to get away from Sumba, owing to the surf, and which pursued us almost through Lombok Straits." In April he writes, amongst other things : " I thought Bali would be a great success, and a nice, pleasant, easy place, where we would all get strong. Instead of that, we never have had such constant and varied sickness. Travelling was difficult and dear, and there was no food to be bought. The people hate us all, I think, and in my whole stay I suc- ceeded in buying jnst two ducks and five young chickens. The ducks cover the land, you know — queer things that-jwalk quite- upright. Both Ram Persad and I on different occasions met tigers face to face. There were hardly any butterflies, ( 543 ) though the season should have been right, and the country was beautiful — fine forest of enormous trees, the largest I have seen in the East, I think. Of the birds about one-half are from low country, and the other half from the mountains, mostly from a place named Gitgit, from 2000 to 4000 feet." With regard to the birds collected in Bali, he writes : " I imagine that the Balinese fauna is very much smaller than the Javanese ; many whole genera of conspicuous forms, which one cannot easily overlook, not extending so far East, The problem regarding Bali is, of course, how many forms of the Timor group extend so far West, and whether these forms are the remains of an original fauna of Australian affinities, or are merely immigrants from Lombok, etc. The ancient stratified rocks of Southern Lombok seem to be continued across the large table-topped island of Penida, in Lombok Straits, to the peninsula of Badong, in S.E. Bali, where cockatoos are found, though not commonly. Besides the Balinese birds sent, I also shot Corvus (Corone} macrorhynclms and the magnificent Aquila (Neopus) malayensis, but did not think them worth sending. Of a Motacilla we got eight females (two sent), but never a male" The following list is the first list of Bali birds ever published, so far as I know, as Wallace stayed in the island not more than two days, and collected there only a few birds.* This list is therefore particularly interesting, and it is sufficiently large to allow some comparison with the Lombok list, which will follow thereafter. The very careful notes on the colour of the eyes, bill, feet, etc., of the birds have in nearly every case been copied verbatim, and added in signs of quotation. From all we can see, the u sexing" is done with the greatest care. The Bali collection was brought together in March and April. 1. Greocichla rubecula Gould. c? ad. Bali, low country. " Eyes deep umber; bill black ; feet pale brownish horn-colour ; claws dark brown " (W. Doherty). c? juv. in first plumage, but wing- quills and rectrices evidently already moulted. Top of the head and back brown, with rusty shaft-stripes ; rump and upper tail-coverts uniform brown ; chin and upper throat pale rusty ; feathers of the chest, breast, and abdomen pale rusty rufous, with bases and tips blackish ; under tail-coverts white, blackish at base. Geocichla rubecula Gould has hitherto only been known from Java. It differs from G. citrina of India in being smaller (wing of the Bali skin 110 mm.), of a darker grey above, of a very much deeper rufous on the head and below. Perhaps the white patch on the upper wing-coverts is also larger. The male from Bali is like * I am much obliged to Mr. Wallace, who most kindly gave me the following list of the birds collect-d by him in Bali on June 13th and 14th, 1856. which I publish here, using his own name-*. They are : Copsychus amocnvs, Oriolus horsficldi, Megilaema rosea, Chrysonotus tiga, tititrnopastor jalla, Ploee-i* hypoxanthiis, Miinln pum-tnlaria, Ptllotis Limbata. A skin of the latter species from the Gould collection has been enumerated in the Catalogue of Birds, IX. p. 237, as collected in Bali by Mr. Wallace, but as this author (Malay Archipelago, I. p. 203) expressly says that MdiphayiiJae were not found in Bali, I supposed an error with regard to the skin in the Museum, and wrote to Mr. Wallace for an explanation, and this is what he most kindly answered me : " I am very glad you wrote to me about the Ptllotis limbata, because I seem myself to have overlooked the fact that I found it in Bali. The reason must be, I think, that. I only obtained one specimen there, and by some mistake of my agent it got misplaced from my private collection (which was afterwards placed iu the British Museum), and was bought by Mr. Gould. I find in my original notes that Ptilotis limbata was obtained by me both in Bali and Lombok, and s-pecimens frum both localities should have been kept in my private collection. When I came home, not finding the species among my skins from Bali, I must have forgotten the fact, and thus made the mistake you refer to in my Malay Archipelago.'" ( 544 ) specimens from Java, and indeed of a very deep rufous colour, perhaps even deeper than most of the Java birds. I have been inclined to consider G. rubecula as merely a subspecies of G. citrina, but it can perhaps just as well stand as a species. G. innotata Blyth, from Burma, on the other hand, seems to deserve not more than subspecific rank. Cf. Seebohm, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. V. pp. 174 and 176; Hartert, Ornis, 1891 (p. 2 of article " Ueber eine kleine Vogelsammlung," etc.). 2. Pratincola caprata (L.). Both sexes from the low country, c? ad. " Iris deep umber ; bill and feet black." $ . " Iris deep brown." 3. Phylloseopns borealis (Bias.). These birds were still common in March in the low country. They are quite typical, I think, but one of them is a perfect giant, with the wing fully 76 mm., while i he other five skins have their wings only 64 to 72 mm. long, the larger ones evidently being males. " Iris deep brown ; feet greenish olive." 4. Copsychus saularis amoenus (Horsf.). Both sexes from the low country. An immature male from Bali, of this form, was collected by Wallace, and is in the British Museum. The specimens from Bali are pure amoenus, quite black below, except some white tips to the under tail- coverts and a few white feathers on the sides of the vent. The three outer rectrices are nearly quite white. " Iris dark brown." ft. Enicurus leschenaulti (Vieill.). cribes the iris as yellowish, with a brownish outwardly and a greenish inwardly border, the feet dull grey, beak all vermilion. Quite recently, antea, p. 176, I made known the most westerly locality recorded for T. megalor/tyncltus. I may now add that, though no doubt they must be grouped with T. megalorhynchus and not with the Sumba subspecies, some of the specimens from Djampea htaud a little between the typical Moluccan form and aumbensis, showing much of a greenish tinge on the breast and less bright under wing-coverts. 40. Ninox rudolfi A. B. Meyer. See Ibis, 1882, p. 232, PI. VI. Two females of this beautiful owl. Wing 225—230 mm. " Iris deep brown ; cere partly bluish, partly yellowish; beak dull bluish white, commissure and tip blackish ; feet dull ochreous." *50. Strix flammea L. One skin, sex uncertain, above greyish ; tail pale buff, with blackish bars, below ( 589 ) white ; underside white with not very many small blackish spots. Wing 256 mm. Although of a very pale colour, this bird does not seem separable from S.flammea typica. 51. Astur torquatus (Temm.). c? ad. Wing 216 mm. Broad rufous collar, intermixed with some brownish grey feathers on the hind-neck. " Iris pale orange-ochre ; feet ochreous ; cere greenish yellow ; maxilla black, laterally slaty blue at base ; mandible slate-blue with brownish tip." 52. Cerchneis xnoluccensis occidentalis Mey. & Wigl. Two females, both very typical occidentalis. " Iris dark brown ; beak slaty blue, tip blackish ; ceres and eyelids yellow ; feet ochreous, claws black." 53. Osmotreron teysmanni Schleg. Schlegel described an adult specimen, evidently a male, of this bird in Notes Leyden Mus. I. p. 103. A detailed description is given in Cat. B. Brit. Mus. XXI. p. 55. Doherty sent Q^Q female only. The pale yellow face characterises it very well. The mantle is dark green ; rump and upper tail-coverts yellow-green ; the shoulders greyish towards the edge. Otherwise the specimen agrees with the description of the type, which was evidently a male. Wing 159 mm. "Iris pale slaty grey; beak pale yellowish, base olive-green ; feet pinkish purple, soles yellowish." *54. Ptilinopus dohertyi llothsch. (Plate XII.) This most beautiful pigeon has been well described by Mr. Rothschild in Bull. B. 0. C. V. p. 46, and is figured on Plate XII. Only one adult male was procured in the state of Taimanu. The inner primaries of this species are on the tip as broad as in the middle, the outer web is cut off quite straightly, while the inner web is deeply sinuated. The first primary is not abruptly attenuated on the apical portion. It seems, therefore, not to fit in any of the sections of the genus Ptilinopus, made by Salvador! on p. 70 of his catalogue. 55. Ptilinopus melanocephalus (Forst.). Quite a series from Sumba. Tip of beak and eyelids gamboge-yellow. " Iris pale yellow ; feet magenta." 56. Carpophaga aenea (L.). Two females from Sumba, resembling those from Sambawa. 57. Turtur tigrinus (Temm.). Two specimens from Sumba do not differ from typical T. tigrinus. ( 590 ) *58. Geopelia mangel (Temm.). A good series from Sumba. c?. "Eyes pale canary-yellow; feet purple- brown in front, slaty bluish behind ; skin round eye orange-yellow ; beak slaty blue." Specimens from Suinba are like those from Sambawa. In some of them the black bars below reach farther down, nearly the whole abdomen being covered with them, but others are exactly like Sambawa skins. *59. Chalcophaps indica (L.). Common in the plains. *60. Tringoides hypoleucus (L.). One female. *61. Aeglalites dubia (Scop.). One female. *62. Dendrocygna arcuata (Horsf.). $. " Beak all black ; feet dull slaty grey ; eyes deep brown." 63. Nettion gibberifrons S. Mall. $. " Iris rich maroon-brown ; beak pure slate-blue ; maxilla with two terminal black spots, a lateral black streak at the angle ; mandible with terminal third flesh- colour ; feet dull grey." \ I \M' .! •} U..I . 1896. JG.KeiJ.ema.ns . del.etHtK PTILOPUS DOHERTY"! Rotksck. Mixitei-n. Bros . imp .