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perieures et inferieures sont noiratres; la base ties plumes 

 est blanche ; clii blanc k la base du bee, au derriere de la tete 

 et au eol ; les remiges et les rectrices rayees transversalement 

 de gris ardoise ; le dessous de I'aile raye de blaucliatre et dc 

 noiratre ; les lignes des rectrices plus etroites ; le dessous au 

 cote interne presque blane ; quelques indices de taclies rousses 

 sur les couvertures inferieures de Taile et aux cuisses." 



Correction. I take tliis opportunity of correcting an error 

 or misprint in one of my former papers : in ' The Ibis/ 1875, 

 p. 365, the asterisk in line 6 should be affixed to " polioce- 

 phalus" not to '^ hajjlochrous." 



[To be continued.] 



XXII. — On Recent Ornithological Progress in N'eiv Guinea. 



By P. L. SCLATER. 



In my address last year to the Biological Section of the British 

 Association at Bristol I gave a short summary of the informa- 

 tion at that time accessible to us upon the ornithology of New 

 Guinea. But so much has been added to our knowledge of 

 this strange land even within the short period that has since 

 passed that I propose to offer to the readers of this Journal 

 some supplementary remarks upon the same subject. In 

 Italy, Germany, and England alike, during the past six 

 months there have appeared contributions of greater or less 

 importance towards our knowledge of the Papuan avifauna, 

 concerning each of which I propose to say a few words. 



Commencing with the first-named country, we have an 

 ornithological letter of Dr. O. Beccari"^, the quondam com- 

 panion of D'Albertis, of the greatest interest, communicated 

 by our ever active friend Dr. Salvadori. Dr. Beccari dates 

 from Ternate on the 4th of last August, whither he had 



* " Lettera ornitologica di O. Beccari intomo agli Uccelli osservati 

 durante irn sue recente Yiaggio alia Nuova Guinea," Ann. del Mus. Civ. 

 di St. Nat. di Genova, vol. vii. p. 704 (1875). I am indebted to Mr. Elwes 

 for writing out an English translation of this letter, of which I have largely 

 availed myself. 



