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Total length, 10*4 in. ; wing, 6'7 ; tail, 4*5 ; tarsus, 0*9 ; bill 

 from forehead, 1'2 ; Culmen, 1'3. 



Hab., Cloudy Bay, South Coast, New Guinea. 



This species of Lory comes very close to Dr. Gray's descrip- 

 tion of Lorius hypoenochrouii, but differs in having the whole of 

 the abdomen black, and a black band across the interscapular 

 region, and in the color of the under tail-coverts ; also in the 

 concealed yellow spot near the base of the breast and chest 

 feathers ; but notwithstanding these differences this may 

 however hereafter prove to be only a very old male of Lorius 

 hypcenochrous ; should it, however, prove distinct, I am desirous 

 it should bear the name of Lorius OuUelmi, in honor of S. B. 

 Williams, Esq., of the Paradise and Victoria Nurseries, London, 

 who has so liberally equipped Mr. Goldie for his botanical explo- 

 rations in New Guinea, from whom I have received this specimen. 



Pitta novce-hihernicoe. sp. nov. 



From the Rev. George Brown's collection, obtained in New 

 Ireland and the Duke of York Islands, the Museum purchased a 

 Pitta, which, until lately, I considered to be a young female of 

 Pitta macJcloti, of Temm. Signer D'Albertis, however, pointed 

 out that this could not be the case, and showed me a fine series 

 in his collection from the Fly River. I have also examined 

 young of both sexes in the Dobroyde collection, and in that 

 of the Australian Museum, where the young of P. macMoti 

 distinctly show the black coloring on the throat and the black 

 line which separates in the adult, the broad blue chest-band from 

 the crimson of the breast and abdomen. The New Ireland bird, 

 for which I propose the name of Pitta novce-hibernicce, resembles 

 P. maclotii very closely, but the black on the throat, and the 

 black band below the blue on the chest is not found ; the 

 forehead and crown of the head are of a dull brown, washed 

 with rust-red ; the occiput and nape are of a bright rust-red ; 

 sides of the head and throat dull rusty-brown, ear-coverts and 

 narrow line of feathers over the eye blue, like the chest ; all the 

 under surface crimson, but of not quite so deep in tint as in 

 P. mackloti; the back and remainder of the plumage, and the 



