104 MR. P. L. SCLATER ON BIRDS FROM [Feb. 20, 
Nectarinia flavigastra, Gould, P. Z.S. 1843, p. 104 ; Zool. Sulph. 
p. 43, pl. 24 (9). 
Nectarinia australis, Gould, B. Austr. Suppl. pl. 45. 
Mr. Brown sends me from New Ireland an adult male and female 
of this species. This is very interesting ; for the female of the New- 
Ireland bird was described and figured by Mr. Gould in 1844, under 
the title of Nectarinia flavigastra. There can be no doubt, Capt. 
Shelley tells me, of the identity of the New-Ireland bird with WN. 
JSrenata, which has the following wide range—Celebes, Moluccas, 
New Guinea, New Ireland, islands of Torres Straits and North- 
eastern Australia. This bird will be figured in Capt. Shelley’s 
‘Monograph of the Cinnyride,’ part 3. 
17. PHILEMON COCKERELLI, Sp. nov. 
Supra fuscus unicolor, pileo et capitis lateribus paulo obscuriori- 
bus: subtus dilutior, fusco-cinereus, gutture albicantiore et 
striis angustis plumarum scapas occupantibus instructo: fronte, 
loris, oculorum ambitu et mandibula inferiore usque ad aures 
denudatis: plumis auricularibus dorso concoloribus: rostri 
tuberculo nullo: rostro obscure corneo, pedibus albicanti-plum- 
beis: long. tota 13:0, ale 6:0, caude 50, tarsi 1°7. 
Hab. New Britain (Feb. 1876). 
Obs. Similis P. moluccensi, sed pileo obscuriore, dorso omnino 
concolori dignoseendus; a P. fuscicapillo colore corporis inferioris 
dilutiore diversus. 
I have already pointed out (P. Z. S. 1869, p. 120) the necessity 
of using Philemon as the name of this genus, ; 
18. CALORNIS NITIDA. 
Calornis nitida, G. R. Gray, P. Z.S. 1858, p. 181. 
Lamprotornis metallicus, Garn. Voy. de la Coq. Zool. i. p. 343. 
Calornis metallica, Scl. P. Z. S. 1869, p. 120. 
A pair of this species from Duke-of-York Island. The male 
agrees with Mr. Gray’s type, collected during the voyage of the 
‘Sulphur’ in New Ireland. Whether it be really separable from C. 
metallica, I must leave the monographer to decide. 
19, GRACULA KREFFTI. 
Gracula kreffti, Scl. P. Z. S. 1869, p. 120, pl. ix. 
Gracula gnathoptila, Cab. et Reich, Journ. f. Orn. 1876, p. 322. 
My original example of this species having been received in spirit, 
the yellow colour of the belly was much faded, and the absence of 
the naked jaw-stripe (which occurs in G. dumonti) was not noted. 
Both these characters are well developed in the present example 
from New Ireland; and I have no doubt that the New-Hanover bird, 
which has been recently termed G. gnathoptila, is of the same species. 
20. Corvus, sp. ine. 
A single skin of a Crow from New Britain, which Mr. Sharpe, 
