NEW BIRDS FROM NEW GUINEA, 211 
NOTE XXIV. 
DESCRIPTION OF EIGHT NEW 
BIRDS COLLECTED BY Mr. H. A. LORENTZ 
IN SOUTHWESTERN NEW GUINEA 
BY 
Dr. E. D. VAN OORT. 
The collection of birdsskins made by Mr. H. A. Lorentz 
during his glorious and successful expedition to the snowy 
mountains of New Guinea contains nearly thousand speci- 
mens. As could be expected, there are many interesting 
examples in the collection, new species as well as such which 
as yet had not been recorded from western New Guinea. 
The descriptions of the new forms, collected in the higher 
parts between 2600 and 4200 m., are given in the fol- 
lowing lines; the report on the whole collection shall be 
published in „Nova Guinea”, 
Anurophasis, nov. gen. Gallidarum. 
Bill short, at base broader than high; culmen conspicu- 
ously arched; tip rounded and curving over the lower 
mandible. Nostrils concealed above by a scale and below 
by plumes. Tarso-metatarsus a little longer than middle 
toe with claw, covered in front with two rows of scales. 
Toes rather long, inner toe shorter than the outer; hind 
toe short and elevated. Claws strong and pointed, slightly 
curved, but that of the inner toe quite straight. Wings not 
Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XXXII. 
