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9. De Vis's Report on the Birds of British New Guinea, 

 1896-97. 



[Annual Report on British New Guinea from 1st July, 1896, to 30tli 

 June, 1897, with Appendices. 4to. Brisbane, 1898.] 



The Annual Report to the Queensland Parliament for 

 1896-97 contains in its Appendix (A. A., p. 81) a report by- 

 Mr. De Vis on the birds collected by Sir William Mac- 

 gregor, the Lieut. -Governor of British New Guinea, during 

 his recent adventurous journey overland from the Mambare 

 River on the east, across the central range^ to the Vanapa 

 River on the west, also during the expedition subsequently 

 sent into the Vanapa Valley, and the return over the Wharton 

 Range to the Mambare by a new track. The whole series 

 obtained consists of 471 specimens, which are referred to 

 175 species. Of these the principal novelties have been 

 already characterized by Mr. De Vis in this Journal (Ibis, 

 1897^ p. 371), but the following 10 additional new species 

 are described in the present report : — 



Oreopsittacus viridigaster, Cyclopsittacus nanus, Nasiterna 

 orientalis, Rhipidura Icetiscapa, Gerygone rohusta, Pachy- 

 cephala strenua, Ptilotis perstriata, P. piperata, Sarganura 

 maculiceps, and Ibis (Falcinellus) humeralis. 



Sarganura (op. cit. p. 87) is a new genus of Meliphagidse, 

 but its exact position is not stated. 



10. Hartert on Birds from Nias Island. 



[Einiges iiber Vogel von der Insel Nias. Von Ernst Hartert. Orniih. 

 Monatsb. vi. 1898, p. 89.] 



Rosenberg, Modigliani, and other known collectors have 

 made us pretty well acquainted with the birds of IN^ias 

 Island, otf the west coast of Sumatra, and Heer Biittikofer 

 (Notes Leyd. Mus. xviii. p. 195) has lately given us an 

 excellent list of the 128 species yet recognized as belonging 

 to its avifauna. The receipt at Tring of a series of bird- 

 skins collected by Herr Raap in Nias has induced Mr. 

 Hartert to prepare the present paper, which contains notes 

 and remarks on about 30 species, some of which are addi- 



