On a Collection of Birds from Tongoa, New Hebrides. 



ihe Zoological Museum of Christiania has lately received 

 through the Revd. 0. Michelsen, for thirteen years a missionary 

 at the New Hebrides, a small collection of birds, all preserve<l 

 in spirits, from the island Tongoa, collected during the year 

 1890. As several of the specimens have considerably faded, and 

 others are young birds in the first plumage („nesting" plumage)' 

 some were råtner difficult to identify; my friend Dr. Ogilvie 

 Grant, of the British Museum, however, has been kind enough 

 to examine these specimens for me. 



Notwithstanding that serveral lists of birds, found at the 

 New Hebrides, have been published in the course of the years 

 by different Observers, still our information of the avifauna of 

 this group of Islands is very imperfect, and a prolonged stay at 

 the islands no doubt would bring good results for the ornitho- 

 gist. A complete list of the birds, hitherto found on the New 

 Hebrides (including the Banks Islands), is published by Dr. 

 Wiglesworth in his valuable paper Aves Polynesiae (Abhandl. 

 Ber. Konigl. Zool. Anthrop. Mus. Dresden, 1890—91, No. 6, p 

 VIII, Dresden 1891). 



By 



R. Collett. 



( Read 18th November 1892 ) 



