. A naturalist's wanderings in the Eastern archipelago; a narrative of travel and exploration from 1878 to 1883. Natural history. 368 A NATURALIST'S WANDEBINGS species discovered by Mr. Forbes all are of Papuan genera, and nearly allied to known Papuan species except the Strix, -which appears to be a diminutive form of an Australian type,- and the Myiagra, which is nearest io a Timor form; the Oeocichla machikiis most nearly allied to a Timor bird. There is also in the collection one other Timor bird, Erythrura tricolor, which is not found in New Guinea or the 1 think, therefore, we
. A naturalist's wanderings in the Eastern archipelago; a narrative of travel and exploration from 1878 to 1883. Natural history. 368 A NATURALIST'S WANDEBINGS species discovered by Mr. Forbes all are of Papuan genera, and nearly allied to known Papuan species except the Strix, -which appears to be a diminutive form of an Australian type,- and the Myiagra, which is nearest io a Timor form; the Oeocichla machikiis most nearly allied to a Timor bird. There is also in the collection one other Timor bird, Erythrura tricolor, which is not found in New Guinea or the 1 think, therefore, we may fairly say that the Tenimberese Avifauna is pre- eminently Papuan, varied only by a slight element from Timor (repi:e- sented by Erythrura tricolor, Myiagra falviventris, and the Geocichla), and by an Australian tinge shown by the Sirix, and perhaps by MondrcJia nitidus being present (as in the Aru Islands) instead of M. chalybeo- AUSTRALIA skilt0h-3iap of the eegion, sikjwrxg the geogbapiiioal eblations op tee tenijibek geol-p. (with the kint) pekmission op the council op the anthropological institute.) That the Tenimber group would possess a certain number of peculiar endemic forms was also to be expected, from their isolated situation, and the deep channel around them.' Altogether these are 29 [now 30] in number, namely the 27 [28] species above described as new, and two Parrots {Eos reticulata and Jiclectus riedeli) previously ; [H. 0. F.] IV.— On the Collection o/Reptiles and Batb,acbi\H8 from the Timor-laut Islands, formed by Mr. H. 0. Forbes. By G. A. Botjlenger, (From Proc. Zool. Soc. London, June 5,1883. PI. XLI., XLII.) . The Eeptiles and Batrachians collected by Mr. Forbes in the Timor- laut Islands, and presented to the British Museum by the British As- sociation, belong to seventeen species, which, with the exception of two new to science, were already well known from different parts of the Austro-Malayan sub-region. The two new
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