326 On the Zoology of Neiv Guinea. 



Bay (on tlie south coast of the east end of New Guinea) and 

 those from Blunden River (not yet marked in the maps 

 seen by me) , T should say that if, when fully adult, they have 

 the middle of the chest red^ they belong either to true P. I'ivolii 

 or to an allied new species. Where, I think, Mr. Ramsay is 

 positively wrong is in trying to unite P. rivolii, P. strophium, 

 and P. prasinorrhous as one and the same species. 



Megaloprepia poliura, Salvad., Ramsay, /. c. p. 291. 



I am glad to see that Mr. Ramsay, accepting my name for 

 the southern form, agrees with me in considering it dis- 

 tinct. I should like Mr. Ramsay to tell us if the pair of 

 Megaloprepia puella, previously mentioned by him (P. Z. S. 

 1876, p. 115) as from Cape York, really was from that locality, 

 or if it really belonged to the species with the tail below 

 black. 



Carpophaga van-wycki, Cass., Ramsay, I. c. p. 292. 



This species was not yet known from such localities as the 

 south-east end of New Guinea, Deboyne Island, and Bramble 

 Haven. Mr. Ramsay states that he finds no differences 

 between specimens from these localities and those from the 

 Duke-of-York Island. 



I suspect that C.pistrinaria, Bp., from the Solomon Islands, 

 is the same species. 



Carpophaga pacipica (Gm.), Ramsay, I. c. p. 292. 



From Teste Island, South-east Cape, &c. Teste Island 

 belongs to the Louisiade archipelago, where this Pigeon was 

 already found by MacGillivray during tlie voyage of the 

 'Rattlesnake^ {of Salvad., Mon. del sottogeu. Globicera, 

 p. 8). South-east Cape is very near the Louisiade archi- 

 pelago ; but there must be many more places in New Guinea, 

 between South-east Cape andTaraway Island on the northern 

 coast, where this species will also be found. 



Myristicivora spiLORRHOA, Gray, Ramsay, /. c. p. 292. 



Mr. Ramsay says, " I believe the species found on New 

 Ireland and Duke-of-York islands to be M. luctuosa (or 

 M. bicolor); however it is certainly not the same as that from 



