348 Mr. A. R. Wallace on some neio Birds 



Pour moi, c'est plus qu^une probabilite, c^est presqu'uue cer- 

 titude que le Pipi de Madere, figurant dans le catalogue des 

 oiseaux de cette ile sous le nom d'Anthus pratensis, soit encore 

 notre Anthus herthelotii. Mes souvenirs, quelques ephemeres 

 qu'ils soient quant a Madere, me le rappellent comme y habi- 

 tant les memes lieux et y montrant la meme familiarite comme 

 aux Canaries. De plus, Vernon Harcourt lui y attribue le nom 

 identique de Corre de caminho. II est evident qu^on ne saurait 

 concilier les traits que je \nens de signaler avec les moeurs bien 

 connues de la Farlouse. Mr. J. Yate Johnson vient encore 

 corroborer raon opinion en s'enon9ant sur Poiseau en question 

 de la maniere suivante : — 



" Anthus pratensis is plentifully found in the fields near the 

 sea and in the serras. It utters a low note, running along the 

 ground, and never takes a long flight. The natives consider the 

 bird sacred, and have some legend about its having attended the 

 Virgin at the time of the nativity." 



Berlin, le 1" juillet 1862. 



XXXVIII. — On some new Birds from the Northern Moluccas. 

 By Alfred Russel Wallace. 



In a collection just received from Mr. Allen, made during a 

 visit to the north of Gilolo and the adjacent island of Morty, a 

 few species occur not included in the list published by Mr. G. R. 

 Gray. Two of these, a Tanysiptera and a Tropidorhynchus, are 

 from Morty (a small island to the north of Gilolo), to which they 

 are no doubt strictly confined, other and very distinct species 

 of the same genera taking their place in Gilolo itself; and they 

 are further interesting as marking the northern limit to which 

 these two genera are yet known to extend. The other birds 

 found at Morty are Gilolo species, with the exception of a Crow, 

 which appears to agree best with the Corvus orru of New Guinea, 

 and Butalis hypogrammica, n. s., which agrees with specimens 

 from Ceram, but has not yet been found in Gilolo. 



The island possesses an active volcano, but otherwise consists 

 only of raised coral-rock and sand. It has therefore, probably, 

 never been connected with any other land, but has been gradu- 



