S75: DR. O. FINSCH ON NEW POLYNESIAN BIRDS. 643 
Eastern Carolines. Mr. Kubary, the well-known Godeffroyian 
traveller, has spent more than one year in exploring this island ; 
co unfortunately all his collections were lost by the wreck of the 
ship. 
The birds saved from this accident are referable to about nineteen 
species, of which no less than five are undescribed. An extended 
paper on the birds of Ponape will appear in the ‘Journal of the 
Museum Godeffroy,’ forming the second part of my ‘‘ Ornithology of 
the Pacific Islands.” Meanwhile I am anxious to publish the 
characters of the new species, which may stand as follows. 
1. PETROICA KLEINSCHMIDTI, sp. nov. 
“Upper surface dark brown; sides of head and neck paler; 
middle of chin and throat whitish ; crop and breast light red, re- 
mainder of underparts white; quills black-brown on the inner web, 
with a white cross mark commencing from the fourth quill; the 
last secondary is margined externally with rusty brown; coverts of 
the secondaries and upper wing-coverts margined at the end narrowly 
but distinctly with rusty brown; tail-feathers brownish black, the 
outermost on the apical half externally white, the second tail-feather 
only with a narrow white external margin and tip. Bill brownish 
black ; feet brownish. 
Long. ale. caud. culm. tars. 
33" 9" j be 15” ce. A 73" 
Hab. Feejee Islands, Tai-Levu or Viti-Levu (Kleinschmidt). 
Obs. Differs from P. pusilla, Peale, from the Navigators’, in 
lacking the white front and large white mark on the wing-coverts. 
2. ZOSTEROPS PONAPENSIS, Sp. Nov. 
Upper parts dark olive-brown, wings and tail darker, very narrowly 
margined externally with lighter brown; lores, sides of head and 
underparts brownish ashy, the flanks distinctly brownish ; a narrow 
greyish eye-ring; feathers of front with narrow pale shafts. Bill 
blackish ; feet dark plumbeous. 
Long. alee. caud. rostr. tars. 
34" Ag 1 Tom Aus 8" 
Hab. Ponape, Seniavin group (Kubary). 
Allied to Z. (Tephras) finschi, Hartl., but smaller, and the 
underparts distinct brownish ashy. 
3. VOLVOCIVORA INSPERATA, Sp. nov. 
Male like that of V. monacha, H. and F., but without black on 
the chin and throat, the whole under surface slate-grey ; no distinct 
white margins on the inner web of the primaries, and the outer tail- 
feathers broadly pointed with slate-grey. 
Female totally different from that of V7. monacha. Tead above, 
nape, and lores brownish grey; remainder of upper parts dark 
maroon-brown; rump, upper tail-coverts, and the whole under surface 
