52 CATALOGUE OF BIRDS FROM NEW GUINEA. 



TOTANUS EM PUS A. 



Actitis empusa, Gould, B. of Austr. vi. pi. 35. 

 Totanus hypoleucus, Miill. Verh. Ethn. p. 22. 

 Hab. New Guine<a (.V«//e;-)- 'nUli6-i>[t(^iti.) 



HiMANTOPUS LEUCOCEPHALUS. 



Uimantopus leucocephalus, Gould, Proc. Z. S. 18.S9, p. 44 ; B. of 

 Austr. vi. ])1. 7. 



Hab. New Guinea (MuUer). 



TrINGA ALBESCENS. 



Schceniclus albescens, Gould, B. of Austr. ii. pi. 

 Tringa jmsilla, Miill. Vcrli. Ethn. p. 23. 

 Hab. New Guinea ; River Oetanata (AliUler). 



Phalaropus hyperboreus. 



Tringa hyperborea, Linn. S. N. i. p. 249. 



Phalaropus hyperboreus, Cuv. 



a. Aru Islands. Procured from Mr. Wallace. 



PALAMEDEIDyE. 

 Parra GALLINACEA. 



Parra gallinacea, Temni. PI. Col. 427. 

 Hab. New Guinea (TemmincA). 



RALLIDiE. 



Eulabeornis ca.staneoventris. 



Eulabeornis castaneoventris, Gould, B. of Austr. vi. pi. 7>i. 

 a, b. Aru Islands. Procured from Mr. Wallace. 



Rallina tricolor. 



Rallina tricolor, G. R. Gray, "Proc. Z. S. 1858, p. 188. 



Head, neck, nape and breast rusty red, paler on the throat ; back, 

 wing and abdomen slaty black tinged in some places with olive-brown; 

 the sides, thighs and under tail-coverts banded with pale rufous ; 

 wings beneath slaty black banded with white ; bend of the wings, 



l)oth above and below, spotted with rufous white. 



Length 10" 6"'; wings .^"0"'. ^ ,^ . . ,u,, ,/ \ 



Hab. Aru Islands {Wallace). Atyy^J , [/nO/.j /haJ^cf'U^^-J 



Length 10" 6"'; whigs 5" G'". 



ce). 



Larid.«. 

 Sterna Torresii. 



Sterna Torresii, Govdd, B. of Austr. pi. 



Sterna velox, Riipp. ? ; Miill. Verh. Ethn. p. 125. 



Hab. New Guinea, west coast (Miiller). 



a. Aru Islands. Procured from Mr. Wallace. 



