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CoUocalia terrse-reginfe. RocldQgham Bay, Queensland. 

 Xeropliila pectoralis. Port Augusta, S. Australia. 

 Sericornis minimus. Australia. 



Part II. (1876). 

 Charmosyna papuensis. Atam, New Guinea. 

 Diphyllodes gulielmi-tertii. Mountains of Eastern Waigiou. 



speciosa. New Guinea. 



chrysoptera. Waigiou. 



Pitta maxima. Gilolo. 



Melampitta lugubris. New Guinea. 



Campephaga strenua. Atam, Arfak Mountains. 



Melitlireptus Isetior. Australia, 



Ptilotis frenata. Cardwell district, Queensland. 



flavostriata. Rockingham Bay, Queensland. 



Rhipidura dryas. Australia (North-western). 

 Ptilonopus nanus. Triton Bay, New Guinea : Mysol. 

 Amytis goyderi. S. Australia. 



The only other English work bearing upon New Guinea that 

 has lately appeared is Captain Moresby^s account of his 

 surveys of the south-eastern and northern coasts^. There is 

 nothing strictly ornithological in this volume ; but it will be 

 read with interest by those who study the fauna of Papua as 

 giving accurate geographical details about many little-known 

 localities, and as containing the only map we know of in 

 which '' Yule Island/' D'Albertis's headquarters, is correctly 

 marked. 



XXIII. — Notes on a Collection of Birds from the New 

 Hebrides. By H. B. Tristram, F.R.S. 



I HAVE lately received, through the kindness of Rev. J. 

 Inglis, who has been for many years a missionary at Anei- 

 teum^ in the New Hebrides, a small consignment of birds and 

 eggs collected at Aneiteum, Aniwa, and Erromanga. It may 

 be of some little interest to give a list of the collection, inas- 



• Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea and the D'Entrecasteaux 

 Islands, a cruise in Polynesia and visits to the Pearl-shelling stations in 

 Torres Straits of H.M.S. 'Basilisk.' By Captain John Moresby, R.N. 

 London : Murrav. 1876. 1 vol, 8vo. 



