320 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



narrative of two very adventurous expeditions, during which 

 some of the most interesting and least-known spots of the 

 Papuan subregion were visited. Among these was Etna 

 Bay, on the west coast of Dutch New Guinea (from which 

 Capt. Webster barely escaped with his life), the Trobriand 

 Islands^ New Britain, New Hanover, and the Admiralty 

 Islands. The natural-history collections all went to Tring, 

 and many portions of them have already been described 

 in 'Novitates Zoologicse.^ An appendix to the present volume 

 by Mr. Hartert gives us an account of some of the rich spoils 

 in birds obtained during the two expeditions. The collection 

 made in German New Guinea was not extensive, but con- 

 tained some fine Birds of Paradise and a young example of 

 Meyatriorchis dorice. The list of bii'ds obtained on the Aru 

 Islands has already been published in ' Novitates Zoologicse,' 

 but some additions are now made to it and two new sub- 

 species are described — Rhectes ferrugineus brevipennis and 

 Syma torotoro tutelare. The series from Etna Bay and 

 Triton Bay, in Western New Guinea, was valuable, as speci- 

 mens are rarely obtainable from this coast, and are much 

 required for comparison. Here, in Etna Bay, an adult 

 example of Megatriorchis doi'ice was procured. Of the col- 

 lection obtained by Capt. Webster in New Hanover^ which, 

 so far as we know, had never been previously visited by a 

 European collector, Mr. Hartert gives us a full list of the 

 land-birds, comprising examples of some 34 species. Two 

 of these, Cacomantis websteri and Alcyone websteri (see 

 above, p. 278, PI. III.), are described as new. The collection 

 shows that the avifauna of New Hanover is not identical 

 with those of New Ireland and New Britain, but contains 

 some indigenous species and an admixture of forms met with 

 in the Admiralty Islands. 



43. Hartert on Birds from Ecuador. 



[On a Collection of Birds from North-western Ecuador, collected by 

 Mr. W. F. H. Rosenberg. By Ernst Hartert. Novitates Zool. v. p. 477.] 



This is an account of a collection from the valleys and 

 mountains of North-western Ecuador, which contains ex- 



