BIRDS. 43 



This bird, which is in all probability a female, is from Bow Island, and is, 

 I believe, the only insessorial form that has been brought from thence. Only a 

 single example was procured, and its principal interest consists in its forming 

 an additional species of a small group of birds inhabiting the Galapagos, to which 

 islands they had hitherto appeared to be peculiar. The specimen above alluded 

 to was presented by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to the Zoological 

 Society of London, whose Museum it now enriches. 



The figure is of the natural size. 



" Bow Island has truly little to boast of in its ornithology, since the only 

 birds seen by us during a residence of six weeks at this Atol coral island were 

 doves, the above new species of Cactornis, plover, a few black and white tern 

 which appear attached to these situations, and herons ; and none of these 

 were at all numerous. The Cactornis inornatus was usually noticed about the 

 lowly bushes of Petesia carnea, the succulent fruit of which most probably con- 

 stitutes its chief food." — Ed. 



Family— NECTARINIAD^. 



Nectarinia flavigastra. Gould. 



Plate XXIV. 

 Nectarinia Flavigastra, Gould, in Proc. of Zool. Soc, July 25, 1843. 



Spec. char. Nect. superne flavescente olivacea ; liiiea superciliari et corpore subtiis 



nitide Jlavis. 



Crown of the head, ear coverts, and all the upper surface yellowish-olive ; stripe over the 



eye and all the under surface bright yellow ; bill and feet black. 

 Total length, 4^ inches ; bill, f ; wing, 2 ; tail, 1£ ; tarsi, f. 



Inhab. New Ireland. 



Upon submitting this bird to the inspection of Sir William Jardine, Bart., 

 who has recently been engaged in investigating and publishing a monograph of 

 the group to which it belongs, he informed me that it is entirely new ; from which 

 circumstance I am induced to give it a place in the Zoology of the Voyage 

 of the Sulphur. 



A single specimen only was obtained by, and now forms part of the collection 

 of, J. O. Goodridge, Esq., Assistant-Surgeon of H.M.S. Starling. 



The figures are of the natural size. 



