396 DR. L. F. DE BEAUFORT, BIRDS FROM DUTCH NEW GUINEA. 



PHALACROCORACIDAE. 

 Phalacrocorax sulcirostris Brandt. 

 Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. XXVI. p. 376. 

 Q, Lake Sentani, April iôth, n°. 95. 



Ardeidae. 

 Herodias alba timoriensis Cuv. 



Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. XXVI p. 99. 



çf, Lake Sentani near Djafuri river. April 5th, n°. 90. 



Dupetor spec. 



Two nestbirds from Lake Sentani, April i8th n°. 146, 147. Ail the feathers of the 

 upper parts are black with lighter margins. Earcoverts black, spotted with brownish. Feathers 

 of the throat brownish with whitish margins ; rest of underparts greyish brown, the feathers 

 bordered with white. 



Butorides javanica stagnatilis Gould. 

 Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. XXVI p. 183. 

 ç?, Supiori, July iyth, n°. 644. 



Anatidae. 

 Dendrocygna spec. 



Pullus, Lake Sentani. April 8th. n°. 100. 



A species of Dendrocygna was very abundant at lake Sentani, I could however not 

 procure any spécimen but the pullus mentioned above. It does not agrée with the description 

 given by Salvadori (Orn. Pap. III p. 390) of the pullus of D. guttata. I give hère the 

 description of my bird : Upperside grey brown, underside white with a light brown tinge on 

 the breast and middle of abdomen. Pileum brown, a little darker than the body. A super- 

 ciliary stripe and a stripe running under the eye and meeting that of the other side on the 

 occiput white. This last stripe bordered by two brown ones of which the top one begins at 

 the lores, runs through the eye and is fused with the brown of the pileum; the other 

 beginning under the eye, borders the lower margin of the white stripe and is confluent with 

 the brown of the hindneck. A border of the wing and a longitudinal stripe on each side 

 of the back, continued on the uropygium, white. 



Tadorna radjah Garn. 



"Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. XXVII p. 175. 

 Ç, Tami river, n°. 340 (native coll.). 



