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Show 1885.] DURING THE VOYAGE OF THE YACHT 'MARCHESA.' 509 28. PHILEMON TIMORIENSIS (S. Miiller). Tropidorhynchus timoriensis, Gray, Hand-1. i. p. 160, sp. Bp. Consp. i. p. 390. Hab. Lombok (Wallace); Sumbawa (Guillemard); Flores and Timor (Wallace). a, b. 3 • Sumbawa town. c. 2 • Bima, Sumbawa. d. 2 • Sumbawa town. e-h. Sumbawa town. Iris reddish brown; bill black; tarsus bluish ash ; bare skin on head and neck dark brown. Length 30*5-31*8 centims.; wing 14*0-14*8 centims. This species appears to vary considerably in the shade of colour of the under surface and the amount of striping on the neck. The individual c is more or less immature ; the upper surface is interspersed with light brown feathers, the upper tail-coverts are buff, the edges of the outer webs of the secondaries are washed with dull greenish yellow, and there is hardly any striping on the neck. This species occurred, in small flocks of eight or ten individuals, in great numbers on the road up to the town of Sumbawa, keeping up a continuous noisy chatter. The note is very loud and harsh. They were afterwards found to be tolerably common at all the places visited on the island. 29. CALORNIS MINOR (Miiller). Calornis minor, Gray, Hand-1. ii. p 26, sp. 6375 ; Bp. Consp. 417; Wald. Tr. Z S. viii. p. 80. Hab. Lombok, Flores, Timor (Wallace) ; Sumbawa (Guillemard). a-c. 8 • Bima, Sumbawa. d. Sumbawa. Iris orange-scarlet; bill and feet black. Length of wing 9*5-10*2 centims. 30. AMADINA INSULARIS, Wallace. Amadina insularis, Wall. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 495. Hab. Timor and Flores (Wallace); Sumbawa (Guillemard). a-c. 2 • Bima, Sumbawa. Iris reddish brown ; bill orange, bright red in the male; feet yellowish. Length of wing 5-0-5'3 centims. 31. OSMOTRERON VERNANS (Linnaeus). Osmotreron vernans, G. R. Gray, P. Z. S. 1860, p. 360; Wald. Tr. Z. S. vol. ix. pt. 2, p. 210 ; Bp. Consp. ii. p. 12. Treron viridis, Wallace, Ibis, 1865, p. 374. Hab. Malay peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo, Philippines, Celebes, Java, Sumbawa (Guillemard). a. 8- Sumbawa. Iris " pearly "; bill slate-blue at. tip, green at base ; tarsus pinkish red. Length'of wing 14*4 centims. |