752 MR. G. B. SOWERBY ON NEW SHELLS. [Nov. 21, 



A letter was read from Count T. Salvadori, C.M.Z.S., containing 

 the following remarks on some of the birds mentioned by Signor 

 D'Albertis as seen by him during his first excursion up the Fly Paver 

 (P. Z. S. 1876, p. 414; Ibis, 1876, pp. 359-362). 



" Signor D'Albertis has not sent any specimens from the Fly 

 River of the following species : — Paradisca raygiana, Tadorna sp., 

 Manucodia viridis, Epimachus magnificus, Microylossus aterrimus, 

 and Ceyx solitaria ; so that these species are not included in my 

 Catalogue of D'Albertis's second collection"*. 



As regards the Paradisea raggiana, although Signor D'Albertis 

 must be the one who best knows this bird, the most splendid of his 

 discoveries, still as he does not state that he has killed any specimen 

 of it along the Fly River, 1 should like to compare specimens of this 

 locality with those of Hall Bay. I must say that I was rather in- 

 clined to think that the Bird of Paradise from the Fly River might 

 be of a different species, as is the case with the Ooura which I have 

 lately described as G. scluteri, and which is certainly different from G. 

 albertisi. The G.sclateri has been mentioned by Signor D'Albertis 

 as Goura, sp. inc. (P. Z. S. 1876, p. 414), and again with only the 

 generic name of Crowned Pigeon {Goura) in 'The Ibis.' I cannot 

 help thinking that Manucodia viridis has been mistaken for the widely 

 spread species M. atra, which is also found at Hall Bay and on the 

 Aru Islands ; while M. viridis, so far as I know, has a very limited 

 range, and has only been found on the north-west peninsula. It 

 would also be interesting to examine specimens of the Epimachus 

 called jnagnijiats, as it may happen that the bird from the Fly River 

 belongs to the Cape- York form (E. alberti). 



Signor D'Albertis has sent specimens of the birds named by him 

 Tanysiptera dea and Halcyon nigrocyanea; and these are respectively 

 Tanysiptera galatea, var. minor, and Cyanalcyon stictolcema of my 

 catalogue. C. stictolcema is a beautiful species, allied to C. nigro- 

 cyanea, but certainly different. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. Descriptions of si*x new Species of Shells from the Collec- 

 tions of the Marchioness Paulncci and Dr. Prevost. By 



Gr. B. SoWERBY, JUIl. 



[Received October 27, 1876.] 

 (Plate LXXV.) 



Conus pauluccijE, sp. nov. (Plate LXXV. fig. 3.) 



C. testa elongata, solidula, obsolete striata, obtusissime anguluta, 

 antice attenuata, albida aurantiaco late interruptim fasciata, 



* "Catalogo di una seconda collezione di uccelli raccolti dal Sig. L. M. D'Al- 

 bertis noil' isola Yule e Bulla vicina costa della Nuova Guinea e di una piccola 

 collezione della regione bngnata dal fiumc Fly," Ami. Mus. Civ. di Storia Nat. 

 di Genova, i\ pp. 7-49, Ottobre 1876. 



