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of species, was yet very interesting. I got another speci- 

 men of the rare New Guinea kite (Henicopernis longi- 

 cauda), a large new goatsucker (Podargus superciliaris), 

 and a most curious ground-pigeon of an entirely new genus, 

 and remarkable for its long and powerful bill. It has 

 been named Henicophaps albifrons. I was also much 

 pleased to obtain a fine series of a large fruit-pigeon with 

 a protuberance on the bill (Carpophaga tumida), and to 

 ascertain that this was not, as had been hitherto supposed, 

 a sexual character, but was found equally in male and 

 female birds. I collected only seventy-three species of 

 birds in Waigiou, but twelve of them were entirely new, 

 and many others very rare ; and as I brought away with 

 me twenty-four fine specimens of the Paradisea rubra, I 

 did not regret my visit to. the island, although it had by 

 no means answered my expectations. 



