. A naturalist's wanderings in the Eastern archipelago; a narrative of travel and exploration from 1878 to 1883. ent that the prevailing facies of this ornis is, as might havebeen expected, predominantly Papuan. Of the species included in theabove-given list, 81 are mentioned in Salvadors work. Of the 24 new 368 A NATURALISTS WANDERINGS species discovered by Mr. Forbes all are of Papuan genera, and nearlyallied to known Papuan species except the Strix, -which appears to be adiminutive form of an Australian type, and the Myiagra, which is nearestto a Timor form; the Geocichla machiki is most ne
. A naturalist's wanderings in the Eastern archipelago; a narrative of travel and exploration from 1878 to 1883. ent that the prevailing facies of this ornis is, as might havebeen expected, predominantly Papuan. Of the species included in theabove-given list, 81 are mentioned in Salvadors work. Of the 24 new 368 A NATURALISTS WANDERINGS species discovered by Mr. Forbes all are of Papuan genera, and nearlyallied to known Papuan species except the Strix, -which appears to be adiminutive form of an Australian type, and the Myiagra, which is nearestto a Timor form; the Geocichla machiki is most nearly allied to a Timorbird There is also in the collection one other Timor bird, Erythruratricolor, which is not found in New Guinea or the Moluccas. 1 think,therefore, we may fairly say that the Tenimberese Avifauna is pre-eminently Papuan, varied only by a slight element from Timor (repre-sented by Erythrura tricolor, Myiagra fulviventris, and the Geocichla), andby an Australian tinge shown by the Strix, and perhaps by Monarchartitidus being present (as in the Aru Islands) instead of M. SKETCH-MAP OF THE REGION, SHOWING THE GEOGRAPHICAL RELATIONS OF TEE TENIMBER GROCP. (WITH THE KIND PERMISSION OF THE COUNCIL, OF THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE.) That the Tenimber group would possess a certain number of peculiarendemic forms was also to be exjDected, from their isolated situation, andthe deep channel around them. Altogether these are 29 [now 30] innumber, namely the 27 [28] species above described as new, and twoParrots (Eos reticulata and Eclectus riedeli) previously known. [H. 0. F.] IV.—On the Collection ^Reptiles and Batrachiansfrom the Timor-lautIslands, formed by Mr. H. 0. Forbes. By G. A. Boulenger, (From Proc. Zool. Soc. London, June 5,1883. PL XLL, XLII.) The Reptiles 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 th
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