690 MR. P. L. SCLATER ON BIRDS FROM NEW GUINEA. [Nov. 4, 



34. Suthora conspicillata, sp. nov. Kokonor. 



35. Allotrius eenobarbus (Temm.), vnr.pallidus. Ibid. 



36. Hesperiphona affinis (Blyth). Moupin. 



37. Carpodacus pallasi, Bp. Pekin. 



38. PalcBornis derbianus, Gray. Moupin. 



39. Vivia innominata, Burton. Kokonor. 



40. Puffinus leucomelas, Temm. Shantung. 



The last is added, I think, only on conjecture ; but it is not 

 said so, and we must admit it also. At the end of his catalogue, 

 Pere David gives the distinctive characters of his Ianthocincla arte- 

 misice, described before in the ' Ann. & Mag. of Nat. Hist.' for April 

 1871, to which reference is made, and adds three new species (and 

 one variety), to wit : — Suthora conspicillata, from Kokonor ; Alcippe 

 cinerea of the bird from Moupin, identified by Verreaux with A. ni- 

 palensis, Hodgs. ; and Paradoxornis guttaticollis of the bird from 

 Moupin, considered by Verreaux to be P. Jlavirostris, Gould. These 

 make no further increase to our number ; 40 added to the 675 of my 

 Catalogue, gives 715 species of birds noted from China up to the 

 end of a.d. 1871. 



Chefoo, May 12, 1873. 



3. Characters of new Species of Birds discovered in New 

 Guinea by Signor d'Albertis. By P. L. Sclater, 

 M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S., Secretary to the Society. 



[Keceived August 1, 1873.] 

 (Plates LII.-LVII.) 



At the last meeting of this Society, I had the pleasure of exhibiting 

 to the members a collection of birds made by Signor Luigi Maria 

 d'Albertis, during his recent expedition into the interior of New 

 Guinea, and of pointing out the characters of two new Paradise- 

 birds, which formed part of it*. I have now examined the rest of 

 the collection, which contains altogether seventy- nine skins belonging 

 to fifty-three species, and find in it representatives of fourteen other 

 species which appear to be new, and which I propose to characterize 

 as follows : — 



1. Eupetes leucostictus, sp. n. (Plate LII.) 



Supra saturate oleagineo-viridis, pileo cum cervice postica castaneis: 

 alls nigris, harutn tectricibus maculis rotundis albis ornatis ; 

 secundariis autem externis dorso concoloribus : loris, regione 

 oculari et striga utrinque postoculari cum menio et yula media 

 nigris : plaga magna cervicali utrinque alba : cervice antica 

 nigra albo punctata : abdomine cceridesce/ite cinereo, lateraliter 



* Sec above, p. 557 et seq. 



