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NOTE XXI. 

 ON NEW-GUINEA BIRDS. — II *). 



BY 



Dr, E. D. VAN OORT. 



In the following lines I enumerate some birds of New 

 Guinea, which our Museum received in the course of the 

 year 1908. Mr. C. L. J. Palmer van den Broek and Mr. 

 P. J. van Cloven presented to the Museum two small col- 

 lections of birds, unfortunately mostly unlabelled, which 

 are said to have been collected respectively near Fak-Fak 

 and near Kaukas, western New Guinea, south of the Mac 

 Cluer Gulf. As there are among the skins from Fak-Fak 

 three unlabelled specimens of Schlegelia wilsoni and among 

 those from Kaukas one Geoffroyus personatus rhodops and 

 two Myristicivora melanura, also unlabelled, it is quite sure, 

 that not all the specimens are from the given localities. Of 

 course I mention only those birds, which are provided 

 with a label, but in some cases, regarding rare species, I 

 mention also unlabelled specimens. 



From Mr. J. Henkelman we purchased a collection of 

 birds, that are collected on the Owen Stanley Mountains, 

 eastern New Guinea, shot above 3000 feet, some specimens 

 on Mount Victoria at 12000 feet of altitude. Several species 

 are important acquisitions to our collection. Three forms are 

 described as new subspecies. 



Ardeidae. 



Uerodias alba timoriensis (Lesson). 



Ardea egretta, Schlegel, Cat. Ardeae, 1863, p. 17 (partim). 



*) For part I, see Notes Leyden Museum XXIX, 1907—08, p. 170. 



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