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Show 14 MR. R. G. WARDLAW-RAMSAY ON [Jan. 6, having heard so good a report from the natives; but nevertheless he obtained several species which had not been previously procured by him. He was encamped in the midst of a virgin forest, where, as he describes it, no human being was living. Here all his servants got fever, and then he himself was seized; and so he was obliged to strike his camp and retire to a place called Lolo, at 3500 feet. This latter place he made his headquarters for the remainder of his sojourn in the island, and here formed a considerable portion of his collections. Mr. Bock, in his letters to Lord Tweeddale, much regretted not having provided himself with small shot, as without it he was not able to obtain good specimens of the smaller species. The absence of small birds from the collection is remarkable, the interesting family of the Timeliidae being, with the exception of the larger genera Garrulax, Trochalopteron, &c, entirely unrepresented. As I hope, when sufficient leisure is at m y command, to treat the subject more fully, I abstain from publishing at the present time a full list of Mr. Bock's collection, but take the opportunity of making a few remarks upon it, and also of bringing to notice three apparently undescribed species. The collection forwarded by Mr. Bock was made between the months of August 1878 and January 1879, in the same part of Sumatra as that in which Dr. Beccari was working in the months of June to September in the former year. One of its chief points of interest is that it contains examples of several migratory species, such as Turdus sibiricus, Pallas, and Phylloscopus borealis, Blasius, which would only occur in the winter season, and would not, therefore, have been met with by Dr. Beccari. Mr. Bock's collection contains about 800 specimens, which are referable to 166 species. Of these 32 are not included in the lists of the Marquis of Tweeddale (Ibis, 1877, pp. 283-323) or of Count T. Salvadori (Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 1879, pp. 169-253) ; thev are as follows:- 1. Neopus malayensis, Temm. ex Reinwardt. *2. Accipiter stevensoni, Gurney. *3. Milvus govinda, Sykes. 4. Caloramphus hayi, J. E. Gray. 5. Anthracoceros malayanus (Raffles). 6. Hydrocissa convexa (Temm.). 7. Merops philippinus, Linn. 8. Cypselus subfurcatus, Blyth. 9. Collocalia francica (Gmelin). 10. Eurylcemus javanicus, Horsfield. *ll. Niltava grandis (Blyth). *12. Xanthopygia cyanomelcena (Temm.). 13. Bhringa remifer (Temm.). 14. Phyllornis media, Bonap. ex Miiller M S . 15. Criniger gutturalis (Miiller). 16. Ixidia squamata (Temm.). |