460 MR. P. L. SCLATER ON BIRDS FROM NEW GUINEA.. [May 16, 



its much larger size and longer bill, which is deeply sulcated at the 

 nostrils. The characteristic curling of the feathers is extended to a 

 o-reater degree than in M. chatybeia, and pervades the whole of the 

 head and neck. The feathers of the abdomen are black at the base, 

 broadly margined with purple. 



Dr. "Comrie obtained a single specimen of this fine bird in May 

 18/4 in Huan Gulf. It was shot flying amongst the trees in the 

 scrubby forest about a quarter of a mile from the coast. 



3. Dacelo gaudichaudi, Quoy et Gaim. 

 Iluon Gulf, one skin. 



4. LORIXJS HYPCENOCHROUS. 



Lorius hypoinochrous, Grav, List of Psitt. p. 49 (1859) ; Brench- 

 ley's Voy. p. 380, pi. 14. 



Domicella hypoinochroa, Finsch, Papag. ii. p. 768. 



Three skins of this fine Lory were obtained by Dr. Comrie in 

 Possession Bay*, S.E. New Guinea, in April and May 1874. On 

 comparing them with the typical specimen in the British Museum, 

 which was obtained by Macgillivray during the voyage of the ' Rattle- 

 snake' on one of the islands of the Louisiade group, off the S.E. 

 coast of New Guinea, I find that they differ in the absence of the 

 slight black band across the under wing-coverts, which is found 

 in the typical specimen. There is likewise rather more blue on the 

 abdomen of Dr. Comrie's skins. These differences are, in my 

 opinion, too slight to warrant specific separation. 



5. Carpophaga pinon (Quoy et Gaim.) ; Bp. Consp. ii. p. 37- 



6. Carpophaga spilorrhoa, G. R. Gray. 

 One skin from South-east ("ape, New Guinea. 



7. Calcenas nicobarica (Linn.). 



One skin, obtained in Huan Gulf in April. 



8. Megapobius macgillivraii. (Plate XLIII.) 

 Megapodius macgillivrayi, G. R. Gray, P. Z. S. 1861, p. 289, & 



1864, p. 43. 



A single skin of this little-known Megapode, obtained by Dr. 

 Comrie on the shores of Huan Gulf in May, agrees tolerably well 

 with the typical specimen of the species in the British Museum. 

 The chief difference remarkable is in the more rufescent tinge of the 

 lower back of the present specimen, which may be shortly described 

 as follows : — 



Supra fuscescenti-olivaceus, dorso postico rufescentiore : subtus 

 saturate cinereas, hypochondriis et crisso olivaceis : rostro et 



* Possession Bay will be found marked in Capt. Moresby's map, p. 1 ; see 

 also the text, p. 208. It seems to lie between Hayter [sland and the opposite 

 sotith-eastern point of the mainland of New Gruinea. 



