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brown, tlie throat pale browni, while P. finschi is rightly 
described by Ramsay as having the bead dark reddish 
chocolate-brown and the throat black, and the measurements 
are much larger. The locality ^Astrolabe Range’ is probably 
wrong. 
“ P. loria, Salvad., is another form which has hitherto been 
very little known. It differs from P. mackloti in its uniform 
dark-brown head, nape, and hind-neck. It occurs near 
^lilue Bay, S.E. New Guinea, Avliere it seems to replace the 
common P. mackloti. The green-backed females of his 
P. finschi mentioned by Ramsay, and considered by Finsch 
to belong to P. mackloti, were most likely specimens of 
P. lories. 
“Pitta novee-hibernicce from New Hanover and New Ire- 
land has been wrongly confused with P. mackloti. 
“ P. pain ceps h certainly very closely allied to P. celehensis, 
and the distinctness of P. propinqua from P. e^ijthrogastra is 
very doubtful.” 
Mr. Rothschild also sent for exhibition a specimen of an 
Oyster-catcher, which he proposed to call : — 
“ IlyEMATOPUS REISCHEKI, Sp. n. 
“ ^ ad. Differs from H. longiro.stris,\'\c\\\., and H. finschi, 
Martens, at first sight in having the lower back and rump 
black and not white, and the upper tail-coverts being mixed 
black and white, not white. The bill is much longer than in 
a scries of twenty-three specimens of H. longirostris in the 
Tring Museum, and appears stouter than in New Zealand 
speeiraeus. 
“ Culmen 102 mm., wing 270, tarsus GO. 
“ H. longirostris, J ad. Culmen 75-85 mm., wing 2-15-255, 
tarsus 55. 
“ The type was shot in June 1885 at Kaiparu, New Zealand, 
by A. Reischek. 
“ H. finschi of Martens (Orn.Monatsb. 1897, p. 190) ajipcars 
from the description to agree with two birds collected by 
Baron von Hiigel at Freshwater Creek, Canterbury, New 
Zealand, and another from Kaipoi, Canterbury. These birds. 
