Family. 



Cuctdidcs. 



Cypseliclce. 



Capriiiiulgidce. 



Podargid^e. 



Jiuceri)tidce. 



Meropid(e. 



CoraciidcB. 



Alcedinidce. 



Loriidce. 



Psittacldce. 



Biihonidce. 



Yalconidfe . 



PhalncrocoJ'ucidce. 



Anaf.idce. 



Ihididce. 



Ardeidee. 



GEdic7iemid(e. 



Parridcs. 



CharadriidcB. 



Laridce. 



Rallidce. 



Columhidce, 



Megapodiida. 



Casuariidce. 



TntroducUon. xv 



No. of 

 fepeuies. 



Cuckoos i 3 



Swifts 8 



Nightjars 2 



Frog-mouths 3 



Horubills 1 



Bee-eaters 1 



Rollers 2 



Kingfishers 13 



Lories or Brush-tongued Parrots -i 



Parrots J 



Horned and Wood-Owls 1 



Eiigles and Hawks 9 



Cormorants 2 



Ducks 2 



Ibises 1 



Herons 5 



Stone-Plovers 1 



Jacanas 1 



Plovers 10 



Gulls and Terns 2 



Rails 4 



Pigeons 28 



Megapodes or Mound-builders 4 



Cassowaries 3 



Total 312 



From the above table it will be seen that out of 312 species procured, 

 203 are included in nine of the forty-seven Families : viz. Birds-of- 

 Paradise 21 ; Honey-eaters 34 ; Shrikes 13 ; Cuckoo-Shrikes 12 ; Fly- 

 catchers 40 ; Cuckoos 13 ; Kingfishers 13 ; Parrots 29 ; Pigeons 28. 



List of the Principal Papers relating to the Birds of 

 -New Guinea, including the Kei and A^'u Islands. 



1858. Sclater (P. L.). Journ. Linn. Soo. London, Zool. ii. pp. 149-170 



(1858). 

 1875-88. Gould. Birds of New Guinea and the adjacent Papuan Islands. 



(Completed by R. B. Sharpe) (1875-88). 

 1880-82 Salvadori. Ornitologia della Papuasia e delle Molucche. 

 & 1889-91. Vols, i.-iii. (1880-82). Aggiunte, pts. i.-iii. (1889-91). 



1883. Ramsay. Proc. Linn, Soc. N.S.W. viii. pp. 15-29 (1883). 



1884. Sharpe. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xvii. pp. 405-408 (1884). 

 Meyer. Zeit. ges. Orn. i. pp. 269-296, pis. xiv.-xviii. (1884). 



