OF NEW SOUTH MALES. 303 



200. — Tachypetes aquila, Linn.; Gould, Handbook Bds. Attst. IT, 

 p. 499 ; Bamsay, List Aust. Bds., sp. 743. 



One specimen obtained on the sea coast at Kerapoona, sixty 

 miles east of Port Moresby. 



Common throughout the Straits. 



201. — SuLA CTANOPS, Sundevall. 

 Sula personata, Gould; HandhJc. Bds. Aust. II, p. 506. 

 This fine species is far from rare in Torres Straits, and was 

 also met with on many of the small islands towards East Cape. 



Species omitted from foregoing List. 



202. — EUPETES GOLDIEI, sp. UOV. 



Adult. — Front and crown of the head, from the culmen, the nape 

 and hind neck, and all the upper surface of the body, upper tail- 

 coverts, and two centre tail feathers, and the wings olive brown ; 

 shoulders and upper wing-coverts black, those nearest the scapu- 

 lars brown on the outer webs, primary quills washed with black 

 on the basal portion of their outer webs ; a stripe of black from 

 the nostrils, taking in the lores, eye, and upper part of the ear- 

 coverts extends to the side of the occiput, but does not extend 

 round the back of the head ; below this a stripe of pure white 

 from the base of the lower mandible to the end of the ear- 

 coverts ; chin, throat, and chest black, bounded on either side 

 from the chest downwards, by a stripe of rich chestnut, which 

 widens out on the sides of the breast, and extends in a broad 

 band to the flanks, central part of the breast, and the abdomen 

 white, bounded on either side by a series of lanceolate black 

 marks, which extend from the black of the chest, on either side, 

 on to the outer webs of the under tail-coverts, but forming- 

 roundish spots in those feathers near the vent ; under tail- 

 coverts white, with a broad stripe of black on their outer webs ; 

 tail black, except the two centre feathers and the apical portion 

 of the inner webs of the next two on either side, the two outer 



