Extracts from Correspondence, Notices, 6fc. 113 



from Gilolo." Mr. Wallace^s second Macassar collection has 

 been received since he wrote thus. In it and his first collection 

 he has transmitted many interesting species, Buceros cussidix, 

 B. exaratus, Basileornis corythaix, Streptocitta albicollis, Phceni- 

 cophaus callirhynchus, Spilornis rufipectus* — all types peculiar to 

 Celebes; and among the Psittacid(P, Tanygnathus miilleri, Bp., a 

 fine species of Prioniturus, and Trichoglossus ornatus. In the 

 last collection we were surprised to recognize in a strongly-built 

 Corvine bird, Prince Bonaparte's Gazzola txjpica (Compt. Rend, 

 vol. xxxvii. p. 828, et Notes Orn. p. 6). Prince Bonaparte gives 

 New Caledonia as the locality of this bird, which is very singular, 

 as the Streptocitta of Celebes is also attributed, in Labillardiere's 

 'Voyage,' to New Caledonia. But the fact is, that Labillardiere 

 visited Celebes as well as New Caledonia, and the specimens 

 from each country must have been mixed up together. The true 

 position of the Gazzola is certainly near Corvus dauricus, however 

 Prince Bonaparte may deride its being labeled " Corvus dauricus 

 de la Nouvelle Caledonie," and we are not at all sure that it is 

 generically separable therefrom. Another interesting bird in 

 Mr. Wallace's last Macassar collection is a curiously-marked 

 Thrush of the section Geocichla, allied to G. interpres-f of Java 

 and Sumatra, but having the whole back as well as the head 

 chestnut-red. For this bird, of which two examples only were 

 sent, we propose the name Geocichla erythronotaX- From Lom- 

 bok Mr. Wallace has transmitted the true Geocichla interpres. 



Mr. Fraser, who is now collecting in the Andes of Ecuador, 

 dates his last letters from Pallatanga, on the Pacific slope of the 

 western range of the Cordillera, south-westwards of Riobamba, 

 in the tierra caliente. His first collection from this spot, which 

 has just arrived, contains about 110 species, among which are 



* Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc 1857, p. 222. 



t Temminck, PI. Col. 458. 



X Geocichla erythronota, Sclater. 

 G. supra castauea : alis, cauda, lateribus capitis et corpore subtiis ad 

 medium pectus intense nigris ; macula utrinque inter oculum et 

 rictum, altera in regione auriculari, tecti'icum alarium apicibus et pri- 

 mariorum ad basin marginibus externis, rectricis extirafe macula ter- 

 minali et secundse macula minore, albis : abdomine crissoque albis. 

 ventre nigro tanquara squamato : rostro plumbeo, apice flava, pedibus 

 flavis : long, tota 8'0, alae 45, caudae 30. 

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