318 Prof. T. Salvadori on the 



Mr. Goldie's second expedition to New Guinea, with de- 

 scriptions of some new birds recently forwarded to the 

 Australian Museum by Mr. Kendel Broadbent, from the 

 same localities. 



Mr. Ramsay's paper, published in the ' Proceedings of the 

 Linnean Society of New South Wales/ vol. iii. pp. 241-305, 

 1879, is an important one, as the materials at his com- 

 mand were very extensive ; and I have thought that it would 

 be interesting to the readers of 'The Ibis' to have some 

 remarks on the part of the paper relating to the birds, 

 especially as there are not a few species described as new, on 

 which, as well as on others, I think I am able to make some 

 apposite criticisms. 



Mr. Ramsay's paper treats of not less than 214 species of 

 birds, which were represented by about 2500 specimens. 

 These were mostly collected along the southern coast of the 

 eastern peninsula of New Guinea; but some were from 

 Deboyne Island and Te^te Island in the Louisiade archi- 

 pelago. 



ACCIPITRES. 



Mr. Ramsay mentions 1 1 species of this order ; the fol- 

 lowing require some notice. 



Baza reinwardti, Ramsay, /. c. p. 246. 



Mr. Ramsay, after having mentioned a specimen from the 

 Laloki river, goes on to say that " it is most certainly dif- 

 ferent from the New-Ireland species, which Dr. Sclater places 

 under the same name (P. Z. S. 1877, p. lOQ).'' I have seen 

 the specimen mentioned by Dr. Sclater; and I noticed that 

 it differed from twenty specimens from New Guinea, Waigiou, 

 Salwatty, Amboyna, &c. in the under wing-coverts being 

 white without the bvff tinge, which was constant, although 

 more or less intense, in those twenty specimens. As to the 

 other differences in the tail and in the wing, mentioned by 

 Mr. Ramsay, they are dependent on age. 



Mach^rorhamphus alcinus, Ramsay, I. c. p. 247. 

 A fine pair is mentioned by Mr. Ramsay. At present, 

 with the specimen previously noticed by Mr. Sharpe (Journ. 



