But this would be a hasty and, as we shall soon see, an unwarranted supposition.

Besides these birds identical with species inhabiting Java and Australia, there are a considerable number of others very closely allied to species peculiar to those countries, and we must take these also into account before we form any conclusion on the matter.

It will be as well to combine these with the former table thus: In Lombock.

In Flores.

In Timor.
Javan birds........