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Show 1885.] DURING THE VOYAGE OF T H E YACHT 'MARCHESA.' 511 a. 3 . Gunong Api Island, Sumbawa. b. Gunong Api Island. These examples differ from Bornean, Celebean, and Moluccan birds chiefly in having a very broad white superciliary streak. 36. TURNIX POWELLI, sp. nov. (Plate XXIX.) T. rufilato affinis ; sed hypochondriis et subcaudalibus brunnescen-tibus, nigro transfasciatis, haud rufescentibus; et abdomine albo, diversus. Hab. Gunong Api Island, Sumbawa. a. 3 • Gunong Api Island, Sumbawa. b. 2 • Gunong Api Island. c ( 2 )• Gunong Api Island. Iris very light yellow; bill, upper mandible brownish, lower greenish yellow; tarsus yellowish green. Length 170 centims.; wing 8*6-9*8; bill from gape 2*0 centims. This Quail, though somewhat resembling T. rufilatus of Celebes, is at once recognizable by the entire absence of rufous on the abdomen and thighs. The cervix is darker, the barring on the breast more distinct, and extending much lower ; and the black stripe on the throat of the male bird considerably more restricted. I have named this species after m y friend Lieut. R. ff. Powell, R.N., who accompanied the ' Marchesa' in her voyages to Kamtschatka and New Guinea. 37. ERYTHRA LEUCOMELANA (S. Miiller). Erythra leucomelana, G. R. Gray, Hand-1. iii. p. 67, sp. 10509. Amaurornis leucomelama, Salvad. Orn. della Pap. iii. p. 278. Hab. Celebes (Von Rosenberg, Guillemard); B u m (Bruijn) ; Timor (S. Miiller); Sumbawa (Guillemard). a. Sumbawa town. This individual, the label of which is without measurements and notice of colour of soft parts, has the forehead black. The whole of the neck, breast, and abdomen is white, the dark grey being confined entirely to the sides of the body, and not passing towards the middle line of the abdomen as in E. phcenicura. 38. ? ARDEOLA LEUCOPTERA (Boddaert). Ardeola leucoptera, Jerdon, B. Ind. iii. p. 751. ? Ardeola speciosa, Horsf. Tr. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 188. a. " 2 V* Bima, Sumbawa. b. Juv. 8 • Sumbawa. Iris, in adult, yellowish; bill greenish black, ba e of lower mandible greenish yellow ; feet and tarsus olive-green. I have had no opportunity of comparing these skins with Javan or Malaccan examples, and cannot therefore state to which species they should be referred. |