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having given me an opportunity of examining them, I beg leave 

 to lay before the Society some remarks on the avi-fauna of that 

 but recently known locality. 



This collection, numbering over 200 skins, was chiefly obtained 

 on the Laloki River, and within a radius of about fifteen miles 

 of the settlement at Port Moresby. It contains, as will be seen 

 by the list, at least forty Australian species. The genera inhabiting 

 the south-eastern portion of New Guinea are to a great extent the 

 same as those found at Cape York, and there are, as this 

 and other collections I have examined prove, very few of the 

 strictly or peculiar Papuan forms on the south-eastern portion of 

 New Guinea. I was much gratified to find a fine new species of 

 Melidora, of which genus of kingfishers only one was hitherto 

 known. Some of the most interesting specimens contained in this 

 collection are, a fine series of eight specimens of the southern 

 variety of the Goura pigeon — GWra, or Lophyrus coronata, var. 

 D'Albertisi, Salvad ; a fine series of adults and young of 

 the manycoloured lorius (Eos) fuscatus, (Eos torrida of G. P. 

 Gray.) Of the beautiful Cyclopsitta suavissimus (Sclater) there 

 are some nice specimens in difterent stages of plumage, and also 

 four specimens of Paradisea raggiana, a very distinct and 

 beautiful Bird of Paradise. All of these, with the exception of 

 the Goura, I exhibit this evening. 



The following is a complete List of Mr. Goldie's Birds : — 



1. Astur, sp. This bird agrees, in a great measure, with 

 Astur Mulleri (Wall), but may, perhaps, prove to be A. etorques of 

 Salvadori. 



2. Haliaetus leucogaster. 



3. Haliastur sphenurus, v. 



4. Milvus affinis, Gould. 



5. 1 Baza stenozoa 



This bird is very similar to the Australian Baza cristata, but 

 has a stronger bill in proportion to the size of the body, which, 

 with the wings and tail, is slightly smaller than the average of 



