Ornithologists' Club. 567 



ash colour. Beak blackish, anterior third pale orange ; toes 

 purplish pink. Wing 6*9 inches, tail 5'3, bill 0*7. 



Hab. Sumba. 



Coll. W. Doherty, Feb. 189fi. 



Mr. Rothschild further exhibited a fine series of 

 Humming-birds, obtained in Peru and California by Mr. O. 

 T. Baron, and mounted by him from the flesh. Amongst 

 them were several examples of the remarkable racket-tailed 

 Loddigesia mirabilis from Chachapoyas, once so rare in col- 

 lections; also specimens of Thaumastura curce, Oreotrochilus 

 stolzmanni, and Aglceactis alicice. 



Mr. Ernst Hartert stated that the Tring Museum had 

 received some interesting collections made by Mr. Everett 

 in the islands of Djampea and Kalao, between Celebes and 

 Flores. A full account of these, with descriptions of some 

 new species and subspecies, would appear in the forthcoming 

 number of the ' Novitates Zoologicse ' ; meanwhile, as 

 examples of the collections, specimens were exhibited of the 

 rare Oriolus boneratensis, Meyer, and of Trichoglossus forsteni. 



Mr. Hartert also exhibited skins of a new Pachycephala 

 and a new Pitta collected by the well-known entomologist 

 William Doherty on the island of Sumba, or Sandalwood. 

 These he characterized as follows : — 



Pachycephala fulviventris, sp. nov. 



Pachycephala speciei P. fulvotincta dictse affinis, sed maris 

 pectore abdomineque toto saturate aurantio-ochraceis, 

 alis longioribus. ? simillima ferainse speciei P. fulvo- 

 tincta dictse, alis longioribus, gutture albidiore, abdomine 

 flavicantiore distinguenda. Al. (^ 86 G, ? 81 mm., 

 culm. 26, caud. 6G'o. 



Hab. Sumba. 



Pitta maria, sp. nov. 



Rather close to Pitta irena, Miill., but somewhat darker 

 brown below, the black of the throat reaching lower down, 

 the red colour in the middle of the abdomen evidently not 

 mixed with black on its upper part, and the wing, instead 



