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19. Ridgway on some Species o/Xiphocolaptes. 



[Further Notes on the Genus Xiphocolaptes of Lesson. By Robert 

 Ridgway. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. xiii. p. 47.] 



These are additional notes to Mr. Ridgway^s * Review ' of 

 tlie genus {cf. Ibis^ 1890^ p. 256), and relate to a specimen 

 in the Lafresnaye Collection labelled X. procerus, and to 

 other specimens in the American Museum of Natural History. 



20. Salvadori on Birds collected by Loria. 



[Viaggio di Lamberto Loria nella Papuasia Orientale. L & IT. Colle- 

 zioni Ornitologiche descritte da Tommaso Salvadori. Ann. Mus, Oiv. 

 Stor. Nat. Genova, ser. 2, ix. pp. 474 and 554.] 



Dr. Lamberto Loria left Florence in December 1888 on 

 an expedition to the Austro-Malayan Archipelago, and after 

 meeting his compatriot Fea (then on his return from Burmali) 

 at Penang, went by Batavia, Timor, Port Darwin, and 

 Thursday Island to Port Moresby. In these memoirs Count 

 Salvadori gives us an account of Dr. Loria^s first two con- 

 signments of birds in his usual accurate and methodical 

 manner. At Penang examples of 5 species were obtained, 

 none of which are of special interest. Timor is a territory 

 less often visited, and in two localities of this island speci- 

 mens of 28 species were procured, amongst which were 

 Stigmatops limbata, Oreicola melanoleuca, Geocichla peroni, 

 and Padda fuscata. At Port Darwin, where Dr. Loria 

 remained nine days in May, 32 species were met with. These 

 were all known Australian birds, but some of them had not 

 been recorded from this locality. 



The second memoir gives us an account of Dr. Loria^s 

 first collection from South-east New Guinea, chiefly made at 

 Port Moresby, and Rigo, to the east of that port. It con- 

 tains 488 specimens, which are referred to 17 species. 

 Amongst these are a new JEgotheles, like ^. wallacei but 

 larger, from Rigo, ^. loria, and a new Pitta (P. loince) allied 

 to P. mackloti from Su-a-u, a small island near South Cape. 

 Other noteworthy species exemplified in the collection are 

 Ptilotis analoga, Pycnopygius strictocephalus, Sphecotkeres 

 salvadorii, Corvus salvadorii, and Carpophaga rubiensis. 



