4 MESSRS. HARTLAUB AND FINSCH ON [Jan. 9, 



mens which I have had before me only four nipples could be traced, 

 and in one of these, in the Australian Museum Collection (in spirits), 

 all four nipples are drawn, showing that four is probably the greatest 

 number of young produced. I have examined the region of the 

 poucli, which is represented by a skin-fold, with a powerful glass, 

 but not a vestige of the remaining nipples could I discover. My 

 specimen is full-grown ; and if the other nipples were present, traces 

 should be found of them, though ever so small; In young females of 

 Phascogale penicillata the nipples are scarcely discernible to the 

 naked eye, but are clearly shown as soon as a good lens is used. 



2. On a Collection of Birds from the Pelew Islands. 

 By Dr. G. Hartlaub, F.M.Z.S., and O. Finsch. 



(Plates II. & III.) 



The Polynesian collectors of M. Johann Caesar Godeffroy of Ham- 

 burg, to whose zealous efforts we owe already so many valuable ma- 

 terials and so much useful information concerning the zoology of the 

 Pacific Islands, have of late sent a second collection from the Pelew 

 group, an almost unknown locality, of which the geographical posi- 

 tion between Mindanao and the Western Carolines is certainly 

 a most interesting one. This second collection contains thirty- 

 five species, but amongst them are neither rapacious birds nor 

 parrots ! Besides a number of widely distributed Indo- and Po- 

 lynesian species, as Carpophaga pacifica, Rallus pectoralis, Orty- 

 (jometra quadristrigata, Tringa acuminata, Charadrius fulvus, 

 Ardea sacra. Anas superciliosa. Sterna lunata, Gggis alba, Carbo 

 melanoleucus, &c., there are three well-known members of the 

 avifauna of the Caroline and Marianne Islands, — Halcyon albi- 

 cilla, Myzomela rubratra, and Calornis Idttlitzii. For Rallina 

 fasciata and Nycticorax goisagi the Philippines are the transi- 

 tional station. For Porphyria melanotus, a very common Aus- 

 tralian and New-Zealand species, the Pelew Islands are a new 

 habitat. As a very curious fact we must consider the occurrence 

 of Fuligula cristata, a Duck widely distributed over the continents 

 of Europe and Asia, but as yet not known from any of the Indian 

 or Polynesian Islands. 



1. COLLOCALIA VANICORENSIS, Quoy. 



2. Halcyon albicilla. Less. 



Three specimens, not quite adult, all having the crown and mantle 

 with a greenish gloss. 



3. Halcyon reichenbachii, Ilartl. (//. cinnamomina, Reich, 

 f. 3490,3^91). 



One specimen, somewhat smaller than those figured by Reichen- 

 bach : the colour is quite the same. There remains a good deal of 



