258 On Recent Ornithological Progress in New Guinea. 



rations Zoologiques/ A number of nicely drawn lithographic 

 plates accompany the work, amongst whicli are reduced 

 coloured figiires of Tanrjsiptera caro/ina, T. riedeli, Ptilopus 

 sjjeciosus, Trichoglossus rosenbergi, Pachycephala schlegeli, 

 and Myzomela rosenbergi, all new birds discovered during 

 these two journeys. There is also a coloured figure of the 

 head of Casuarius papuanus (which may perhaps after all 

 turn out to be not diflFerent from C. ivestermannij nobis*), 

 and an outline of the head of Drepanurms albert isi under 

 Hr. von Rosenberg^s name of " Epimachus veithii," which, 

 as I have already pointed out in this Journal (* Ibis/ 1874, 

 p. 187), has no real claim to priority. Finally, there is a 

 useful chart of the Bay of Geelvink and its islands. 



There remains now to be noticed what has been done in 

 this country since last August towards the elucidation of the 

 Papuan avifauna. Mr. Gould, having long since completed 

 his ' Supplement to the Birds of Australia,' has now com- 

 menced a second supplement to his great work, in con- 

 junction with a series of illustrations of the birds of New 

 Guinea and the adjacent islands f. Of this the first two 

 parts have appeared, one dated 1875, and the other 1876. 

 They contain life-sized figures in Mr. Gould's usual style, of 

 the following species : — 



Part I. (1875). 



Peltops blainvillii. New Giiinea. 

 Parotia sexpennis. New Guinea. 

 Drepanomis albertisi. New Guinea. 

 Ailuroedus melanotis. Papuan Islands. 



arfakianus. Arfak Mountains. 



maculosus. Queensland. 



buccoides. New Guinea and Waigiou. 



Climacteris placens. New Guinea. 



Aprosmictus insignissimus. Darling Downs, Queensland. 



Cyclopsitta inaccoyi. Rockingham Bay, Queensland. 



* Cf. P. Z. S. 1875, p. &4. 



t The Birds of New Guinea and the adjacent Papuan Islands, in- 

 cluding any new species that may be discovered in Australia. By John 

 Gould. F.R.S. &c. Parts I. & 11. Folio. 1875-76. 



