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Show 1883.] TIMOR LAUT AND THE MOLUCCAS. 589 white, the rest of the underparts white, the feathers on the flanks broadly tipped with crescentic spots of black; axillaries, basal half white, terminal half black ; under wing-coverts, basal half brown, terminal half white ; basal half of inner web of secondaries and basal portion of many of the primaries white ; upper mandible sooty grey, lower yellow ; irides ash-brown ; legs, feet, and claws pale flesh-colour. Wing 4| inches, tail 3*2, culmen 1*05, tarsus 1*4. (No. in collection 583 g.) I propose that this new species should bear the name machiki, as a slight mark of remembrance of Dr. Julius Machik, of Buda- Pesth, Surgeon-Captain in the Dutch Army, and of appreciation of his extreme kindness and hospitality, and of the very great assistance rendered by him to me in Sumatra, and more especially in Amboina to m y wife and myself, both before and after our return from the Tenimber Islands. Dr. Machik is well known in the Archipelago for his extensive collections, especially of Mollusca and fishes. In the Society's 'Proceedings,' 1883, p. 56, the "Geocichla sp. inc," recorded by Mr. Sclater (in describing m y Timor-Laut collections), with a note by Mr. Seebohm, was an immature specimen of G. machiki. The present specimen, having been inadvertently mislaid among Amboina skins, was not transmitted, I regret to say, along with my Tenimber collections. It will be added, however, to the set selected by the British-Association Committee, and presented by them to the British Museum. I have also to remark on another of the Tenimber birds collected by me, and described and figured by Mr. Sclater (P. Z, S. 1883, p. 198), as a new species under the name of Pachycephala fusco-flava. I much regret that by an oversight this specimen also, the only specimen of the adult male of the bird obtained by me, should have been retained behind, having become mixed with the Amboina specimens of that family in m y own collection. It will be seen from the specimen now exhibited (Plate LIII.), that the male Pachycephala fusco-fiava (no. 572 on label) previously figured by Mr. Sclater is an immature bird, in which, however, on closer examination traces of the black colour of the top of the head are discernible on one or two of the small feathers. I exhibit also an apparently somewhat rare bird, as I find it is unrepresented in the National collection-Tanygnathus gramineus, from the island of Boeroe ; also a specimen of Megalurus amboi-nensis from Amboina ; and lastly, I have the pleasure of laying on the table specimens of the new Myzomela which I had the satisfaction of discovering in Boeroe, and which I have already described as M. wakoloensis (see P. Z. S. 1883, p. 115). PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1883, No. XXXIX. 39 |