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wing-coverts, and that they quite agree, even in the smallest 

 particulars, with the description of the type specimen. It 

 follows from this that Dr. Finsch identifies with his G. scheep- 

 makeri the bird which I have named Goura albertisi. I do 

 not wish to repeat here all the reasons which, in two papers 

 published by me on the subject, I have adduced before 

 coming to the conclusion that the specimens of the genus 

 Goura from Hall Bay, Avhich are similar to those from Port 

 Moresby, are specifically different from the type of G. sclieep- 

 makeri, with which 1 carefully compared several of them. 

 Those reasons have been recapitulated in my ' Ornitologia/ 

 iii. p. 205. Here I only wish to bring forward two argu- 

 ments which disprove Dr. Finsch's identification : — 



1st. The type of G. scheepniakeri has the wing-speculum, 

 formed by the greater coverts of the secondaries,, of a much 

 darker grey than several adult birds and a young specimen 

 seen by me of my G. albertisi ; all these have the speculum 

 grey, exactly of the same colour. It is worth noticing that 

 in the allied species, G. sclateri, the young birds have not 

 the speculum darker than the adult. 



2nd. Dr. Finsch told me that he received the type spe- 

 cimen of G. scheepmakeri from somebody of the Leiden Mu- 

 seum, and that most likely it had been obtained by Solomon 

 Miiller near Princess Marianna Straits. If such is the case 

 it is utterly impossible that G. scheepmakeri should be iden- 

 tical with my G. albertisi, as between the area supposed to 

 be inhabited by G. scheepmakeri and that inhabited by G. 

 albertisi there is the extensive region, through which runs 

 the Fly river, which is inhabited by Goura sclateri, quite 



different from both. 



Yours &c., 



T. Salvadori. 



Mr. Whitely has kindly sent us the following extracts from 

 a letter received from his son, the well-known collector Mr. 

 Henry Whitely, dated from his encampment in the interior 



