712 DR. O. F1NSCH ON A NEW STURNUS. [JlMe 18, 



41. LlMICOLA PLATYRHYNCHA. 



Tringa platyrhyncha, Temm. Man. d'Orn. p. 398 (1815). 

 [N. Bohol, 2 > October.] 



The specimens have been submitted to Mr. Dresser, who is of 

 opinion that they belong to this species and not to L. sibirica. 



42. Tringa albescens. 



Tringa albescens, Temminck, PI. Col. 41, f. 2. 

 [N. Bohol, c? $ , October and November.] 

 New to the Philippines. 



43. Gallinago scolopacina (187). 

 [N. Bohol, $ , November.] 



44. BuBULCUS COROMANDTJS (194). 



[N. Bohol, ? , October.] 



45. Herodias garzetta (195). 



[N. Bohol, J, October.] 



46. Dendrocygna vagans (203). 



[N. Bohol, 3 2 > October and November.] 



47. Sterna bergii. 



Sterna bergii, Licht. Verz. d. Doubl. Berl. Mus. p. 80. 

 [N. Bohol, d $ , November.] 



9. On a new Species of Starling. By O. Finsch, 

 Ph.D., C.M.Z.S. 



[Eeceived June 17, 1878.] 



This species, which I propose to name after General Poltaratzsky, 

 Governor of Semipalatinsk, is easily distinguishable from our common 

 Starling by having the back green instead of purplish-violet, and 

 the underparts below the neck of a deep purplish-violet instead of 

 green as in the remaining species. 



I found this Stalling breeding on Lake Marka-Kul, in the Chinese 

 High Altai, about 5000 feet above the sea-level. A careful compa- 

 rison of it with the rich series of Sturni in the British Museum has 

 convinced me that it belongs to a distinct species hitherto confounded 

 with St. vulgaris and its allies. The British Museum contains 

 fifteen specimens of the same bird from North-Western India, 

 Persia, and Baluchistan. Specimens from the two last-named 

 localities are marked St. unicolor and St. vulgaris by Mr. Blanford. 

 The single specimen of a Starling brought home by Mr. Seebohm 

 from the Yenisey belongs also to this species. It is the St. humei, 

 Gould (1877), but not of Brooks (18/(i), and most probably also 

 the St. vulgaris of Radde and Schrenck from Eastern Siberia. The 



