Vol. x.] iv 



brown, the throat pale brown, while P.. finschi is rightly- 

 described by Ramsay as having the head dark reddish 

 chocolate-brown and the throat black, and the measurements 

 are much larger. The locality f Astrolabe Range' is probably 

 wrong. 



" P. loria, Salvad., is another form which has hitherto been 

 very little known. It differs from P. mackloti in its uniform 

 dark-brown head, nape, and hind-neck. It occurs near 

 Milne Bay, S.E. New Guinea, where it seems to replace the 

 common P. mackloti. The green-backed females of his 

 P. finschi mentioned by Ramsay, and considered by Finsch 

 to belong to P. mackloti, were most likely specimens of 

 P. lories. 



"Pitta novce-hibernicce from New Hanover and New Ire- 

 land has been wrongly confused with P. mackloti. 



" P. palliceps is certainly very closely allied to P. celebensis, 

 and the distinctness of P. propinqua from P. erythrogastra is 

 very doubtful/' 



Mr. Rothschild also sent for exhibition a specimen of an 

 Oyster-catcher, which he proposed to call : — - 



" HjEMATOPUS REISCHEKI, Sp. n. 



" $ ad. Differs from H. longirostris , Vieill., and H. finschi, 

 Martens, at first sight in having the lower back and rump 

 black and not white, and the upper tail-coverts being mixed 

 black and white, not white. The bill is much longer than in 

 a series of twenty-three specimens of H. longirostris in the 

 Tring Museum, and appears stouter than in New Zealand 

 specimens. 



" Culmen 102 mm., wing 270, tarsus 60. 



" H. longirostris, <$ ad. Culmen 75-85 mm., wing 245-255, 

 tarsus 55. 



" The type was shotiu June 1885 at Kaiparu, New Zealand, 

 by A. Reischek. 



" H. finschi of Martens (Orn.Monatsb. 1897, p. 190) appears 

 from the description to agree with two birds collected by 

 Baron von Hiigel at Freshwater Creek, Canterbury, New 

 Zealand, and another from Kaipoi, Canterbury. These birds, 



