Recently published Ornithuloyical (Vorks. 367 



61. Fmsch and Meyer on Birds from New Guinea. 



[Vogel vou Neu-Guiiiea, zumeiat aus der Alpenregiou am Hiidostab- 

 hange des Owen Stanley-Gebirges (Hufeisengebirge, 7000-8000' hocli), 

 gesammelt von Karl Hunstein, bearbeitet von O. Finscb und A. B. Meyer. 

 Zeitschr. f. d. ges. Ornitbol. 1886, Heft i.] 



This is the second and concluding portion of the article of 

 the first part of which we have given above (pp. 237-258) 

 a translation by the kind permission of the authors. The 

 present portion treats of 69 species^ mostly from the Horse- 

 shoe Mountain, in the south-east confines of the Owen- 

 Stanley range in New Guinea. Of these the following 

 twelve are characterized as new to science : — Psittacella 

 pallida, P. madaraszi, Eos incondita, Charmosyna stellce, 

 Arses henkei, Rhipidura cinnamomea, Myzomela ramsayi, 

 Melipotes fumigatus, Melidectes emilii, Ptilotis fulvocinerea, 

 Ptilopus patruelis, and Eutrygon leucoparia. All these birds 

 are figured with the exception of Psittacella pallida, Myzo- 

 mela ramsayi, and Eutrygon leucoparia. A figure is also 

 given of the curious diminutive Cuckoo Microdynamis parva 

 of Salvadori,with which E. P. Ramsay's Rhamphomantis rollesi 

 (Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. viii. p. 25) is said to be probably 

 identical. The exact locality of the specimen is not stated. 



62. Hancock on the Cuckoo. 



[Note on tbe habit of the young Cuckoo in ejecting the Eggs and Young 

 of its Foster-parent from the Nest, observed by John Hancock, at Oatlands, 

 Surrey, in June 1884. Nat. Hist. Trans, of Northumb., Durham, and 

 Newcastle-upon-Tyne, vol. viii.] 



Mr. Hancock selected, as most convenient for observation, 

 the nest of a Hedge- Accentor containing one Cuckoo's egg 

 and four of those of the former. The process of ejectment of 

 the produce of the foster-parents was carefully watched, and 

 was found to agree with the descriptions previously given 

 by Jenner, Montagu, and Mrs. Blackburn. Mr. Hancock 

 expresses his surprise at the remark of a recent writer who 

 says that " one feels inclined to class these narratives with 

 the equally well-authenticated stories of ghosts and other 

 apparitions which abound." Mr. Hancock says that no erni- 



