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V. — Report on Birds from British New Guinea. 

 By C. W. De Vis, M.A.* 



Queensland Museum, Brisbane, 

 August 23, 1889. 

 To Sir William Macgregor, K.C.M.G., &^c. 

 Deaii Sir, 



The examination of the birds committed to me has now so 

 far progressed that I am able to place at your service a fleport 

 on the results. These are in accord with the promise given 

 by the, birds on a first inspection, and are of much interest, 



1 find in all one hundred and sixty-one (161) specimens, 

 representing eighty-two (82) species ; of these no fewer than 

 thirteen (13) appear to be hitherto unrecorded, and of the appa- 

 rent novelties one at least lays claim to generic rank. This is a 



* Reprinted from Appendix G of " Colonial Papers," No. 103, British 

 New Guinea. London, 1890. 



[This very interesting Report contains an account of the collection of 

 birds made by Sir William Macgregor during his recent expedition to the 

 summit of the Owen-Stanley Range in S.E. New Guinea. A narrative 

 of this Expedition has been given in the ' Proceedings ' of the Royal 

 Geographical Society for 1S89 (p. 905). An account of the Paradise- 

 birds and Bower-birds met with during the Expedition has been already 

 published in this Journal by Mr. A. P. Goodwin (Ibis, 1890, p. 150). 

 Mr. Goodwin's Xanthomelus macgregori seems to correspond with Cnemo- 

 philus macgregarii of the present paper, while Mr. De Vis's Amblyornis 

 macgregorics is doubtless the same as Mr. Goodwin's A. musgravianus. 

 Cnemophilus macgregorii is certainly a very remarkable discovery, and we 

 hope that specimens of this bird will soon reach this country. It will be 

 observed that species from Ferguson and Sudest Islands and other localities 

 are also included in the present Report. The more noticeable species of 

 birds found at a high elevation on Mount Owen-Stanley and its adjoining 

 heights appear to be the following : — 



Nasiterna bruijni. Pristorhamphus versteri. 



Aprosmictus chloropterus. Merula papuensis. 



Coriphilus wilhelminfe. Parotia sexpennis. 



Rhipidura auriculai-is. Lophorhina superba. 



Pcecilodryas sigillata. Epimachus meyeri. 



Micrceca Iseta. Asti'archia stephaniee. 



Graucalus longicauda. Amblyornis subalaris. 



ChfBtorhynchus papuensis. macgregorise. 



Pachycephala schlegeli. Cnemophilus macgregorii. 



It will be obvious that there is nothing like a decidedly arctic form in 

 this list.— Ed.] 



