ME. E. B. SHAEPE ON THE BIEDS OF NEW GUINEA. 



685 



Very abundant and destructive, boring long galleries in wood, . 

 with apparent indiirercncc whether the wood be dead or living. 

 {T. S.) 



Apis mellifica, Linn. Syst. JVat. i. p. 955. 

 JIab. Sandwich Islands, &c. &c. 



Contributions to the Ornithology of New Guinea. By E. 

 EowDLEE Shaepe, E.L.S., r.Z.S. &c.— Part VI. On Colleo 

 tions made by the Eev. AV. G-. Lawes in South-eastern New 

 Gruiuea. 



[Read April 17, 1879.] 



The collections which have been made in the neighbourhood of 

 Port Moresby during the last few years seem to have tolerably 

 well exhausted the orjiithology of that part of New Guinea, and 

 each consignment which reaches England is more or less a repe- 

 tition of those which have gone before. The Eev. Mr. Lawes, 

 however, has made a small collection o£ birds ; and as he has 

 visited one or two j)laces to the eastward of Port Moresby, I have 

 thought it advisable to give a list of his specimens, as the range 

 of the birds in an easterly direction is one of considerable interest 

 to the student of the avifauna of South-eastern New Guinea. 



"Walter Bay, Mr. Lawes informs me, is situated a few miles to 

 the east of Port Moresby ; but Hood Bay is about sixty miles 

 east of the last-mentioned -place. I have referred to my former 

 paper on Mr. Stone's collection (Journ. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 486). 

 The "LaroM" river there mentioned is the same as the Laloke 

 river of the present paper, as Mr. Lawes tells me the latter is the 

 more correct pronunciation. 



1. Haliasttje gieeeneea (F1); Sharpe^ Journ. Linn. Soc. xiii. 

 p. 490. Walter Bay. 



2. MicEOGLOSsuM ATEEEIMUM {Qm.)', Sliarpe^ t. c. p. 491. 

 Hood Bay. 



3. GEOFFEOTirs ABUENsis ( Oray)', S]iar])e, t. c. p. 491. Laloke 

 Biver. 



4. CrcLOPSiTTA STTAYissiMA, Sclafer ; SJiarpe, t. c. p. 491. 

 Laloke Eiver. 



