Recently published Ornithological Works. 473 



As regards Poephila youldcB, Mr. Ramsay appears to have 

 come to just the contrary conclusion to Captain Armit, as 

 recorded below. 



In No. 6 Messrs. Castelnau and Ramsay describe as new 

 Epthianura crocea^ Poephila atropygialis, and Zosterops gul- 

 liveri, all from specimens obtained on the Norman river. 

 Gulf of Carpentaria. In No. 7 Mr. Ramsay gives an account 

 of Mr. A. Goldie's collections made during '^ a perilous sojourn 

 of nearly twelve months at Port Moresby, New Guinea." 

 Among the eighty-seven species of* which examples were in 

 the collection, Eopsaltria brunnea and Donacola nigriceps are 

 described as new. 



In vol. ii. pt. 2 of the same journal (1877) we also find two 

 papers of Mr. Ramsay. In the first of these, entitled " Notes 

 on some Birds from Savage Island, Tutuela, &c.'' (/. c. p. 139) , 

 Mr. Ramsay gives some stray notes on a small collection of 

 birds brought by Mr. S. J. Whitmee from several islands. 

 A Ptilopus from Savage Island, belonging to the group of 

 P. porphyraceus, is endowed with a provisional name {P. 

 whitmeei) in case " it may eventually prove to belong to a 

 distinct species.^^ 



Mr, Ramsay's second paper, entitled " Tabular List of the 

 Birds of Australia," is of some importance, as it gives a useful 

 list of all known Australian birds, and a table showing their 

 range in Australia : 744 species are acknowledged, the num- 

 ber given in Mr. Gould's ' Hand-book ' having been 672. 

 Some notes on obscure and uncertain species are appended, 

 and a description of Pachycephala occidentalis, sp. nov., from 

 Western Australia, allied to P. gutturalis. 



56. Capt, W. E. Armit on two Australian Poephilse. 



[Note on Australian Finches of the genus Poephila. By Captain Wil- 

 liam E. Armit, F.L.S. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zoology, vol. xiv. p. 95.] 



Capt. Armit maintains the distinctness of Poephila gouldcB 

 from P. mirabilis, basing his observations on specimens of both 

 species obtained by himself in Queensland. [Cf. Ramsay, 

 supra.'\ 



