ON BIRDS FROM SEKRU. 49 



NOTE VT. 



ON A COLLECTION OF BIRDS 

 made by Mr. KARL SCHADLER 



at Sekru (northwest-coast of New Guinea) 



BY 



Dr. O. PINSCH. 



Mr. Karl Schadler, a German, formerly in service of the 

 Dutch Indian Army, who collected for our Museum from 

 December 1896 till middle of May 1898, went first to the 

 northwest-coast of New Guinea and settled in the small 

 place Sekru (Sekroe), situated a little east of Cape Meyer, 

 on the south-coast of the peninsula which borders the big 

 Bay of McCluer in the south. Mr. Schadler was staying 

 here about S^/g month (from 8 December 1896 till 22 

 March 1897) and sent home 247 specimens of birds (of 

 which 179 are good prepared skins, the rest in alcohol), 

 belonging to 76 species. Although they are all well known, 

 an enumeration may be still of interest on account of the 

 geographical distribution, being the first collection made 

 on this part of the northwest-coast of New Guinea. On other 

 collections, made by Mr. Schadler on the small islands 

 Kisser, Wetter and Babber, I shall report in another paper. 



1. Astur poliocephalus (Gray). 



Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. M. I, p. 117 (part.). 

 Urospizias poliocephalus Salvad. Orn. Pap. I, p. 45. 



Notes from th.e Leyden ]VIiiseum, "Vol. XXII. 



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