Vol. xvi.] m 



lu-ovince of Goiaz. Type ^ , 15. viii., 1888. No. 100, in 

 TriiiL;" Muj<pum; colloettMl by Prof. K. von den Steinen. 



Dr. BowDLER Shakpe forwarded the followino- note 

 calling- attention to some of the ancient drawing's in the 

 British Museum. "In the library presented by Sir Joseph 

 Banks, some of the greatest treasures are the drawings 

 made by the artists Sydney Parkinson, G. A. Forster, and 

 W. W. Ellis during Captain Cook's voyages to the South 

 Seas, and many of the species represented are now 

 apparently extinct. 



" One of these birds is the Tringa pyrrhetroea of Forster, 

 which is Prosohonia leucoptera (Gm.) founded on Latham's 

 ' White-Avinged Sandpiper' (Gen. Syn. iii. pt. i., p. 172, 

 ]>1. Ixxxii.). Latham seems to have examined three 

 specimens in the Banksian collection, but not one of these 

 is now in the British Miiseum. Possibly they never came 

 to that institution, as many of the Banksian t>^es passed 

 into the Leverian and Bullock Collections. The only 

 specimen of Prosohonia known to exist at the present day 

 is in the Ley den Museum. The bird figured by Forster 

 was from Tahiti, but Ellis figiu'ed a bird from Eimeo, or 

 York Island, and this is, in my opinion, a different sj)ecies 

 from the Tahiti bird. It has a circlet of rufous round the 

 eye, a double patch of white on the wing-coverts, and the 

 median and greater wing-coverts j^ale ferruginous, like 

 the rump. For the Eimeo bird I propose the name of 



Prosobonia ellisi, sp. n. 



Dr. Sharpe also sent the description of a new species of 

 Swallow from Uganda, presented to the British Museum by 

 Dr. Cuthbert Christy :— 



HiRUNDO CHRISTYI, Sp. U. 



cJ Similis H. atroccerulea', Sund. sed nitore chalybeo- 



viridi, nee purpurascente distinguenda. Long. tot. 



4-8, culm. 0-35, ala; 4'5, caudu) 2-0, rectr. extimis 5*45, 



tarsi 0-4. 



flfih. Kungu Hill, Mabira Forest, Chagwe, 7. viii. 



l'JO.5. 



