1877. ] DUKE-OF-YORK ISLAND, ETC. 113 
61. ARDEA FLAViCOoLLIs, Lath. 
Ardetta flavicollis, Gould, B. Austr. vi. pl. 65. 
One skin either of the true A. flavicollis, or of its Australian 
representative A. gouldi, Bp. (if these are really distinguishable). 
62. MrecGaropius HUESKERI, Cab. et Reichenow. 
Messrs. Cabanis and Reichenow (J. f. O. 1876, p. 326) describe 
the Megapode of New Hanover as M. hueskeri; and I suppose the 
single skin sent by Mr. Brown to be of the same species. But Prof. 
Salvadori tells me that he finds it very difficult to distinguish 
M. hueskeri from M. forsteni of the island of Bouru. 
63. Raturna Tricotor, G. R. Gray, P. Z. 8S. 1858, p. 188; 
Gould, B. Austr. Suppl. pl. 78. 
One skin of this species, which extends over New Guinea, the 
Aru Islands, and Cape York. 
The collection also contains single skins of the following well- 
known species :— 
64. Cuaraprius ruLvus (Gm.), from Duke-of-York Island. 
65. CHARADRIUS MONGOLICUS, Pall. 
66. NUMENIUS UROPYGIALIS, Gould. 
67. Toranus IncaNus (Gm.), from Duke-of-York Island. 
68. TRrnGorDEs HyPoLEucus (Linn.), from Duke-of-York 
Island. 
69. SrERNA FULIGINOSA (Gm.). 
70. ANovus sTotipus (Linn.), from New Ireland. 
Having now passed in review the seventy species in Mr. Brown’s 
collection, let us, before making any general remarks on it, consider 
what was already known of the ornis of these islands. Duke-of- 
York Island and New Britain may be dismissed in a few words, no 
previous naturalist having, so far as I am aware, made any investi- 
gation of the faunas, although a few chance specimens may have 
been procured from them’. But New Ireland has been more favoured. 
In 1823 it was visited by the French naturalist, Lesson, during the 
celebrated voyage of the ‘Coquille,’ which added so much to our 
knowledge of the fauna of the Eastern Islands. The ‘ Coquille’ 
remained from the 12th to the 21st of August of that year at Port 
Praslin, near the extreme south of New Ireland’. In July 1827 
1 New Britain is the undoubted patria of Casuarius bennettii, of which the 
first (living) example was received by the Society in 1857. 
2 Cf. Zool. Voy. Coquille, 1. p. 329 et seq. 
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