Extracts from Correspondence, Notices, fyc. 113 
from Gilolo.” Mr. Wallace’s second Macassar collection has 
been received since he wrote thus. In it and his first collection 
he has transmitted many interesting species, Buceros cassidix, 
B. exaratus, Basileornis corythaix, Streptocitta albicollis, Phceni- 
cophaus callirhynchus, Spilornis rufipectus *—all types peculiar to 
Celebes; and among the Psittacidce, Tanygnathus mulleri, Bp., a 
fine species of Prioniturus, and Trichoglossus ornatus. In the 
last collection we were surprised to recognize in a strongly-built 
Corvine bird, Prince Bonaparte’s Gazzola typica (Compt. Bend, 
vol. xxxvii. p. 828, et Notes Orn. p.6). Prince Bonaparte gives 
New Caledonia as the locality of this bird, which is very singular, 
as the Streptocitta of Celebes is also attributed, in Labillardiere’s 
‘ Voyage/ to New Caledonia. But the fact is, that Labillardiere 
visited Celebes as well as New Caledonia, and the specimens 
from each country must have been mixed up together. The true 
position of the Gazzola is certainly near Corvus dauricus, however 
Prince Bonaparte may deride its being labeled “ Corvus dauricus 
de la Nouvelle Caledonie,” and we are not at all sure that it is 
generically separable therefrom. Another interesting bird in 
Mr. Wallace’s last Macassar collection is a curiously-marked 
Thrush of the section Geocichla, allied to G. interpres-\ of Java 
and Sumatra, but having the whole back as well as the head 
chestnut-red. For this bird, of which two examples only were 
sent, we propose the name Geocichla erythronota%. From Lom¬ 
bok Mr. Wallace has transmitted the true Geocichla interpres. 
Mr. Fraser, who is now collecting in the Andes of Ecuador, 
dates his last letters from Pallatanga, on the Pacific slope of the 
western range of the Cordillera, south-westwards of Biobamba, 
in the tierra caliente . His first collection from this spot, which 
has just arrived, contains about 110 species, among which are 
* Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1857, p. 222. 
t Temminck, PL Col. 458. 
X Geocichla erythronota, Sclater. 
G. supra castanea: alis, cauda, lateribus capitis et corpore subtiis ad 
medium pectus intense nigris; macula utrinque inter oculum et 
rictum, altera in regione auriculari, tectricum alarium apicibus et pri- 
mariorum ad basin marginibus extemis, rectricis extimae macula ter- 
minali et secundae macula minore, albis : abdomine crissoque albis, 
ventre nigro tanquam squamato : rostro plumbeo, apice flava, pedibus 
flavis : long, tota 8 # 0, alae 4’5, caudae 30. 
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