250 Mr. W. R. Ogilvie Grant on a neiv 



" Sterna dougalli, Blanc goes on to say, is the least shy of 

 all the Terns with which he is acquainted. He also says it 

 has three different notes or series, viz., the call-note, the 

 pleasure-note, and the alarin-cry. Having spent the last 

 two or tlu'ee summers on the south coast of Tunis, Blanc 

 has no doubt had ample opportunity of observing S. dougalli, 

 and ought therefore to be in a position to speak with 

 accuracy about it. 



" What I doubted was that only one egg should be laid in 

 a nest ; but on my writing again to ask him if he was quite 

 sure of this, Blanc replied as follows : — 



'^ ^ Je vous certifie une f ois de plus que je n^ai jamais trouve 

 qu'un seul oeuf dans le nid de la Sterna paradisea [dougalli] ; 

 dans les nids des autres especes de Sterne deux ou trois, 

 jamais quatre oeufs ; dans le nid de S. caspia tou jours deux, 

 jamais trois.' " 



XXII. — On a new Species of Honey -eat e7' (Ptilotis spilogaster) 

 from South-eastern New Guinea. By W. R. Ogilvie 

 Grant. 



The two specimens on which the present diagnosis is based 

 have formed part of the British Museum collection for some 

 years, but were wrongly identified with Ptilotis filigera, 

 Gould [see Gadow, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. ix. p. 237 (1884)]. 

 They are mentioned in the list of specimens under the letters 

 '' g " and " h," the former being from the Astrolabe 

 Mountains, the latter from Port Moresby, both collected by 

 Mr. A. Goldie. 



Specimen ^' f" of the same list is Ptilotis visi, recently 

 described by Mr. E. Hartert (Novit. Zool. iii. p. 15) from 

 the Mailu District, S.E. New Guinea. This is another very 

 distinct form, most nearly allied to the larger P. chrysotis, 

 found in Western New Guinea and on some of the islands 

 off that coast. 



Among the large number of specimens examined, no 

 example from New Guinea can be referred to P. filigera, 

 Gould, which is confined to North-east Australia and the 

 Aru Islands. 



