78 ON BIRDS FROM MERAUKE. 
NOTE VIII. 
REPORT ON A SMALL COLLECTION OF 
BIRDS FROM MERAUKE, SOUTHERN NEW GUINEA 
BY 
Dr. E. D. VAN OORT. 
Some time ago Dr. J. C. Koningsberger of Buitenzorg 
forwarded me for determination a part of the collection of 
birdskins made by the Dutch detachment of exploration 
in the neighbourhood of Merauke between June 1907 and 
March 1908. The skins are not dated, but only sexed; the 
collection contains however interesting specimens. | give 
here, in addition to my paper in Nova Guinea, Vol, IX, 
p. 51, a list of the examples, which are in my hands. I 
am very sorry, that they form only the smaller half of 
the collection, the larger part is still in the Buitenzorg 
Museum and most unfortunately the skins have already 
been stuffed, though they have not been determined by a 
competent person. Dr. L. F. de Beaufort, when being 
at Buitenzorg in November 1909, has seen the birds 
and could give me only the sad informations, that the 
birds already are stuffed and that a good deal of them 
are unlabelled. He had no time to determine the birds 
and consequently, to send me a list of the specimens, but 
that among these examples are also interesting ones can 
be concluded from his statement, that the collection con- 
tains also two cranes. A crane is as yet not known from 
New Guinea; probably it will be Grus australasiana Gould. 
The collection, which I have here in Leyden, contains 
29 specimens, belonging to 19 forms, one of which, Oriolus 
sagittata magnirostris, is new to science. 
Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XXXII. 
