Ornithological Discoveries in New Guinea. 419 
met with in New Guinea. Of the Nectariniine form, Chaleo- 
stetha aspasia, three insular varieties are recognized (in Schle- 
gelian fashion) as stirpes, majorensis , mysorensis, et jobiensis*. 
Finally, Dr. Meyer correctly identifies Campephaga aurulenta , 
mihi, with C. sloctii, Schlegel, and (perhaps not so accurately) 
Redes hennetti , mihi, with the young of R. nigrescens , Schle¬ 
gel f, and gives notes on Munia tristissima , Erythrura tri- 
chroa , Melanocharis nigra , and Ptilopus rivolii. 
It will be evident therefore that Dr. Meyer’s ornithological 
discoveries in New Guinea, have been, as was to be expected 
from what he had previously done in his former eastern jour¬ 
ney, neither few nor insignificant. It is to be hoped that 
these memoirs are only the preludes to a complete account of 
his work. And I venture to express a hope that some means 
will be found to effect a comparison of Dr. Meyer’s collec¬ 
tions with those made in the same country by Signor d*Al¬ 
bertis. Of a part of these I have lately published an account { ; 
but the larger remainder are now, I believe, under examina¬ 
tion in Italy ; and the result will, I fear, be much confusion, 
unless steps be taken to compare the specimens in the two 
collections. 
Besides these papers already spoken of, Dr. Meyer has de¬ 
scribed some new Psittacidse in the Journal of the Zoological 
and Botanical Society of Vienna for 1873 ( Trichoglossus ar- 
faki, T. kordoanus , and Pionias simplex ) §, and in the Journal 
of Ornithology || ( Trichoglossus wilhelmince), and has written 
an article on Ecledus^ f in the f Zoologischer Garten/ In the 
last he endeavours to prove that the red forms of Eclectus 
(E. linneei, grandis, cardinalis et cornelice) are the females of 
the green forms, and that they all belong to one species ! The 
last point is certainly not by any means proved to demon- 
* A new species of the same genus from the Sangir Islands, north of 
Celebes, is described in a footnote as C. sanyirensis. 
t See remarks, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 419. 
t Characters of new species discovered in New Guinea by Signor d’Al¬ 
bertis. By P. L. Sclater, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 690. 
§ Mitth. d. zool.-bot. Gesellsch. zu Wien. 1874 (Feb.). 
Journ. f. Orn. 1874, p. 56. 
Zoologischer Garten, 1874, p. 161. 
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