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twelve have been described b\' us as new species and subspecies, eight in the Bull. 

 B.O. Club, vol. x.Kxiii., and four in the present article. The party camped close to 

 the German settlement, in the neighbourhood of which the collection was made, as 

 a penetration into the mountains of the interior could not be attempted. 



Of the species collected by the Challenijer two important ones are unfortunately 

 not represented : 



1. Mtjzomela jjummelaena Scl., Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1877, p. 553 ; Report 



B. Voy. " Cliallenger" Admiralty Is., p. 28, pi. vii. fig. 3. 

 We cannot say how this species came to be unrepresented — whether it was over- 

 looked, or whether it does not occur in the part of the island where the collection 

 was made. 



2. Halctjon admiralitatis Sharpe. 



Halcyon sanrophaga (non Gould !) Scl., Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1877, 



p. 544 ; Ri'p. B. Voy. " Challenger," 1881, p. 30. 

 Halcyon admiralitatis Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mas. xvii. p. 251 (1892 — 

 Admiralty Islands). 

 It is probable that this interesting form does not occur on the main island, 

 Manns, but, like several of its congeners, on small, outlying, low islands. The 

 collectors of the Challenger also obtained it only ou the little islet of D'Entre- 

 casteaux (not to be mistaken for the D'Entreoasteaux group near the south-east end 

 of British New Guinea). 



The other birds collected by the naturalists of the Challenger and not by Meek's 

 party are : 



1. Monarcka inornatus (Garn.) — A wide-spread flycatcher. 



2. Haliaetus leucogaster (Gm.) — Wide-spread. 



i. Pandion haliaetus leucorepkalus Gould — AVide-s])read. 



4. '■'■ Fregata ariel" Gould — The small frigate-bird. 



5. " Esacus magnirostris " Temm. — Wide-spread. 



6. " Charadrius mongolicus^^ Pall. — Wide-spread migrant. 



7. Strcpsilas iiitcrpres (L.) — Almost cosmopolitan migrant. 



8. Heteractitis incanus brevipes (Vieill.) — Wide-spread migrant. 

 'J. Anous stolidus (L.) — Wide-spread sea-bird. 



10. Anous melanogenys Gray. 



11. Sterna be.rgii Licht, — Wide-spread sea-bird. 



The number of birds known from the Admiralty I.slands is thus altogether 

 fifty-nine. This number can of course be increased by some more migratory shore- 

 birds and sea-birds, but also a few new land-birds may possibly still be discovered. 

 The interior of the island is likely to have a Mania and a Dicueum, and where such 

 striking forms as Pitta superba and Ceyx dispar could be discovered, other 

 unknown ones may still be hidden in the remoter parts of the forests. Nevertheless 

 the collection made by Meek's party surpassed our expectations, and the collectors 

 may be congratulated on their great success. 



The literature referring to the Admiralty Islands alone is : 



1. Sclater, "On the Birds of the Admiralty Islands," in Proc. Zool. Soc. 



London, 1877, pp. 551-557. 



2. Sclater, Voy. " Challenger," Report on Birds, pp. 25-34, plates vii., viii., 



ix., X., xi. (Hepriiited with additions and corrections from P. Z. S. 1877). 



3. Rothschild and Hartert, in Bull. B. O. Club, xxxiil. pp. 105-109 



(February 1914. Description of eight new species and subspecies). 



