On a Second Collection of Birds from Tongoa, New Hebrides. 
By 
R. Collett. 
(Read the 11th November 1898.) 
In 1890, the Zoological Museum at Christiania received a 
small collection of birds from Tongoa, New Hebrides, which had 
been obtained by the Revd. Oscar Michelsen, who, for many 
years, was a missionary in those islands. 
The collection, which comprised 20 species, has been described 
in Forh. Vid. Selsk. Skr. 1892 (No. 13). Of those, one (a Bhipi- 
dura ) is possibly, a hitherto undescribed species, but this could 
not be accurately determined as the specimen was not complete. 
Another species, Bhipidura bulgeri, Lay. 1877, had previously 
not been known to inhabit the New Hebrides. 
In 1897, a further collection was received from the Revd. 
0. Michelsen, like the former one, made in Tongoa. This was 
formed of but 7 species (besides a number of eggs), and included 
Puffinus obscurus, which has possibly not been previously recog¬ 
nised as belonging to the New Hebrides, but which resorts to 
those islands to breed. 
Vid.-Selsk. Forh. 1898. No. 6 
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