Of
Course There Are A Large Number Of Species (Such As Most Of The
Waders, Many Of The Raptorial Birds,
Some of the kingfishers,
swallows, and a few others), which range so widely over a large part
of the Archipelago
That it is impossible to trace them as having come
from any one part rather than from another. There are fifty-seven such
species in my list, and besides these there are thirty-five more
which, though peculiar to the Timor group, are yet allied to wide-
ranging forms. Deducting these ninety-two species, we have nearly a
hundred birds left whose relations with those of other countries we
will now consider.
If we first take those species which, as far as we yet know, are
absolutely confined to each island, we find, in:
Lombock 4 belonging to 2 genera, of which 1 is Australian, 1 Indian.
Flores 12 " 7 " 5 are " 2 "
Timor 42 " 20 " 16 are " 4 "
The actual number of peculiar species in each island I do not suppose
to be at all accurately determined, since the rapidly increasing
numbers evidently depend upon the more extensive collections made in
Timor than in Flores, and in Flores than in Lombock; but what we can
depend more upon, and what is of more special interest, is the
greatly increased proportion of Australian forms and decreased
proportion of Indian forms, as we go from west to east. We shall show
this in a yet more striking manner by counting the number of species
identical with those of Java and Australia respectively in each
island, thus:
In Lombock.
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