News from New Guinea. 363 



Accounts of D'Albertis's excursion to Nou, Bioto, and 

 Naiabui (small villages on the mainland opposite Yide Island) 

 in the summer of 1875 are given in a recently published 

 number of ' Cosmos '^ ; but little reference is made to birds 

 in them. 



While D'Albertis has fixed his headquarters at Yule Island, 

 a party from Sydney has established itself at Port Moresby, a 

 little to the south, and is making successful excursions into 

 the interiorf. As this expedition, which is under the conduct 

 of Mr. O. C. Stone, numbers amongst its members Messrs. 

 Broadbent and Pettard, the well-known collectors and taxi- 

 dermists of Sydney, there can be little doubt that ornithology 

 will be by no means neglected by them, and that we shall 

 before long have to record some of their discoveries in this 

 branch. 



Since I wrote my last article Dr. A. B. Meyer has sent 

 me a separate copy of a paper from the " Sitzungsberichte " 

 of the ' Isis ' at Dresden. It contains descriptions of Phle- 

 gcenas jobiensis, Mic7'ceca papuana, Budytes novcE-guinecE, 

 and Parus arfaki (already characterized in his article in the 

 first number of the ' Mittheilungen aus dem k. zoologischen 

 Museum zu Dresden,^ see above, p. 256), and a summary of 

 our knowledge of the Papuan Psittacid?e. 



Mr. Gould is preparing for issue a third part of his ' Birds 

 of New Guinea, which will contain illustrations of the follow- 

 ing species, many of them of rare beauty and of excessive 

 interest : — 



Part III. May 1876. 



Tanysiptera caroliiipe. Diphyllodes respublira. 



c Cej-x solitaria. Cicinnurus regius. 



Charraosjma josepliinae. Pachycare tiavo-grisea. 



Charmosyna pulcbella. Eupetes cferulescens. 



Psitteuteles arfaki. Stern ula placens. 



Psitteuteles wilhelminae. Gliciphila subfasciata, 

 Psitteuteles placens. 



* "Recenti Spedizioni alia Nuova Guinea," Tosraos, vol. iii. p. 217 

 CApril 1876). 



t See Proc. E. Geogr. Soc, March 1.3th, 1876. 



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