718 DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF HONEY- EATER, 



Description of a new species of Honey-eater from S. E. Coast 



of New Guinea. 



By E. P. Eamsay, F.L.S., C.M.Z.S., &c. 



Plectorhyncha (?) fulviventris, sp. nov. 



Total length about 8 inches, wing 3-8, tail 3-2, bill from fore- 

 head - 95, from nostril 0*5, from gape 1 inch. The fifth and 

 sixth quill nearly equal and longest, tail of 12 feathers. The 

 whole of the upper and under surface of a dull brown washed 

 with olive, browner on the rump and upper tail coverts ; very 

 faintly tinged with olive-yellow on the outer webs of the wing 

 feathers ; on the head and back of the neck the olive-yellow is 

 more defined ; the throat slightly fulvous, the breast, under 

 wing-coverts, abdomen and under tail-coverts, more decidedly 

 fulvous, inner webs of the wing feathers fulvous, the other 

 portions of the wings and tail dull light brown ; legs flesh-colour ; 

 bill light straw-colour, dark brown along the culmen. The third 

 primary is slightly shorter than the fourth ; the fifth and sixth 

 quill equal and longest, the fourth very slightly shorter than the 

 fifth ; the tail not quite so even as in Plectorhyncha lanceolata, 

 (Gould). 



Sab. Mountain ranges of South East Coast of New Guinea. 



The tongue having been removed from the only specimen, it 

 is difficult to determine the Family of this species, for the present 

 I prefer to keep it under the genus Plectorhyncha of Gould, in 

 the Meliphagidse. 



Notes on the Zoology of the Solomon Islands, with 



DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME NEW BlRDS. Part III. 



By E. P. Eamsay, F.L.S., Curator Australian Museum. 



ASTUR VERSICOLOR, Sp. UOV. 



Adult female. — Total length 17 inches, wing 9*75 ; tail 8 in. ; 

 tarsus 2-8 ; mid. toe fs.u.J 1*75, hind toe fs.u.J 0-95 ; bill from 



