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XVII. — On the Birds of New Hanover. By Ernst Hartert. 



(Plate III.) 



The Ornis of New Hanover^ an island situated to the west- 

 ward of the Gazelle Peninsula of New Irelancl_, 37 miles 

 in length by about 20 miles in breadth, and averaging in 

 height from about 1000 to 2000 feet above the sea, is 

 practically unknown. It was therefore of considerable 

 interest to the naturalists of the Tring Museum to receive 

 collections from there which had been brought together by 

 Captain Cay ley Webster. It fell to my lot to examine the 

 bird-skins, and I have given a list of the species in the 

 appendix to Captain Webster^s book * Through New 

 Guinea' (London, Fisher Unwin, 1898), pages 369 to 375. 

 Captain Webster's collection, although of considerable 

 interest, is very deficient in smaller birds, but several highly 

 interesting and even new birds show what an amount of 

 ornithological work remains still to be done in New Han- 

 over. It is evident that there are some differences between 

 the faunas of New Hanover and New Britain, although, of 

 course, the majority of the forms are the same. 



The following are the more interesting species of which we 

 received examples : — 



Edoliosoma remotum Sharpe. 



Also known from New Ireland and Duke of York Peninsula. 



Graucalus sclateri Salvad. (ex Finsch's MS.). 

 Described from New Ireland. 



Pachycephala finschi Reichenow. 



On p. 370 in Capt. Webster's book I mentioned this 

 form as P. melanura, being misled by Prof. Reichenow's 

 description, as a new species, of P. dahli, which is really the 

 same as P. melanura, while the present form is different 

 and has been described by Prof. Reichenow in Orn. Monatsb. 

 vol. vii. p. 8 (1899). 



Pitta novjE-hibernijE. 



Pitta novcehibernica {sic !) Rams. See Roth. Bull. 

 B. O. C. viii. p. vii, and Ibis, 1899, p. 120. 



