Ornithological Discoveries in New Guinea. 419 



met with in New Guinea. Of the Nectariniine form, Chalco- 

 stetha aspasia, three insular varieties are recognized (in Schle- 

 gelian fashion) as stirpes, maforensis, mysorensis, etjobiensis*. 

 Finally, Dr. Meyer correctly identifies Campephaya aurulenta, 

 mihi, with C sloctii, Schlegel, and (perhaps not so accurately) 

 Rectes bennetti, mihi, with the young of R. nigrescens, Schle- 

 gelf, and gives notes on Munia tristissima, Erythrura tri- 

 chroa, Melanocharis nigra, and Ptilopus rivolii. 



It will be evident therefore that Dr. Meyer's ornithological 

 discoveries in New Guinea, have been, as was to be expected 

 from what he had previously done in his former eastern jour- 

 ney, neither few nor insignificant. It is to be hoped that 

 these memoirs are only the preludes to a complete account of 

 his work. And I venture to express a hope that some means 

 will be found to effect a comparison of Dr. Meyer's collec- 

 tions with those made in the same country by Signor d'Al- 

 bertis. Of a part of these I have lately published an account { ; 

 but the larger remainder are now, I believe, under examina- 

 tion in Italy ; and the result wiU, I fear, be much confusion, 

 unless steps be taken to compare the specimens in the two 

 collections. 



Besides these papers already spoken of. Dr. Meyer has de- 

 scribed some new Psittacidse in the Journal of the Zoological 

 and Botanical Society of Vienna for 1873 {Trichoglossus ar- 

 faki, T. kordoanus, and Pionias simplex) §, and in the Journal 

 of Ornithology II {Trichoglossus ivilhelmirKs) , and. has written 

 an article on Eclectus^ in the ' Zoologischer Garten.' In the 

 last he endeavours to prove that the red forms of Eclectus 

 {E. linnaei, grandis, cardinalis et Cornelia) are the females of 

 the green forms, and that they all belong to one species ! The 

 last point is certainly not by any means proved to demon- 



* A new species of the same genus from the Sangir Islands, north of 

 Celebes, is described in a footnote as C. sangirensis. 



t See remarks, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 419. 



J Characters of new species discovered in New Guinea by Signor d'Al- 

 bertis. By P. L. Sclater, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 690. 



§ Mitth. d. zool.-bot. Gesellsch. zu Wien. 1874 (Feb.). 



II .Toum. f. Orn. 1874, p. 56. 



^ Zoologischer Garten, 1874, p. IGl. 



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