95 MR. P. L. SCLATER ON BIRDS FROM [ Feb. 20, 
from his correspondence, and from notices in several newspapers and 
journals’, that Mr. Brown’s head quarters during the year which he 
passed in this district were Port Hunter, Duke-of-York Island, 
where is the Wesleyan Church and Mission, and that frequent ex- 
cursions were made thence to the adjoining large islands of New Bri- 
tain and New Ireland. Writing on February 4th, 1876, he speaks 
of having been seven times over to New Ireland in three months, 
and of there being missionary stations at Nodup and Matupiin New 
Britain, both occupied by native teachers. It may be assumed, there- 
fore, that Mr. Brown’s collections were formed on those parts of the 
islands of New Britain and New Ireland which are nearest to Duke-of- 
York Island’, as shown in the accompanying outline chart (p. 97). 
The collection of birds which Mr. Brown has transmitted to me 
for determination consists of 89 skins, belonging to 70 species, of 
which 10 appear to be new to science, as shown in the subjoined 
Table. 








P 6) ees New to 
Skins. Species. ai 
| I Science. 
UF Pagsenessenccetesvacse sci 25 20 5 
TI OaCey Bes ccvesc access - 16 13 1 
TEP RELAG 5 <0 coatwcceine eo 10 8 1 
WVcr IS ERIP OS) aie seveecseceesees 1 1 1 
IVE PA CCIDIURES we. one ace sc 5 4 
VI. Herodiones ............ 3 2 
WET, Coltimbss o.n..cs.ccs0000 20 13 2 
Wen.» Grallliteise Waens: cisco cass. 1 1 
ONS diGamisess.cccccees. se 1 1 
BAe linmicaiee! iicssnvesedeyes 5 5 
KL, Gia Viseeonpesnarneciesnentec 2 2 
89 70 10 




The following is a detailed account of them *:— 
1. Crsticota RuricEps, Gould, B. Austr. iii. pl. 45 (7). 
Apparently a worn specimen of this species, which Mr. Sharpe 
1 See Wesleyan Missionary Notices for Feb. 1876, p. 28, and Jan. 1877, p. 17. 
2 Since this paper was read I find that Mr. Brown has sent a communication 
to the Royal Geographical Society on his expedition to Duke-of-York Island. 
It appears from this memoir (which, through Mr. Bates’s kindness, I have had 
the opportunity of reading in MS.) that Duke-of-York Island is not, as is marked 
on the chart, one island, but a group of twelve islands, of which seven are in- 
habited. Mr. Brown states that he examined about 130 miles of the coast of 
New Treland, from Cape Bougainville northward, and crossed the island from 
west to east, at a point N.N.E. of Duke-of-York Island. On New Britain Mr. 
Brown examined the coast from Cape Orford and Spacious Bay to Cape Palliser 
on the west, and thence round Blanche Bay, and as far as Port Weber at the 
head of a deep bay about 20 miles east of Cape Lambert. The collections sent 
were therefore, we may presume, all made within these limits.—P. L. 8S. 
3 Prof. Salvadori, to whom I transmitted Mr. Brown’s collection for exami- 
nation, has most kindly furnished me with some notes on the specimens, of 
which, at his request, I have not hesitated to make use. 
