Recently published Ornithological Works. 473 
As regards Poephila gouldce^ Mr. Ramsay appears to have 
come to just the contrary conclusion to Captain Armit_, as 
recorded below. 
In No. 6 Messrs. Castelnau and Ramsay describe as new 
Epthianura crocea^ Poephila atropygialis, and Zosterops gul- 
liveri, all from specimens obtained on the Norman river^ 
Gulf of Carpentaria. In No. 7 Mr. Ramsay gives an account 
of Mr. A. Goldie^’s collections made during a perilous sojourn 
of nearly twelve months at Port Moresby, New Guinea. 
Among the eighty-seven species of which examples were in 
the collection, Eopsaltria brunnea and Donacola nigriceps are 
described as new. 
In vol. ii. pt. 2 of the same journal (1877) we also find two 
papers of Mr. Ramsay. In the first of these, entitled Notes 
on some Birds from Savage Island, Tutuela, &c.^’ {1. c. p. 139), 
Mr. Ramsay gives some stray notes on a small collection of 
birds brought by Mr. S. J. Whitmee from several islands. 
A Ptilopus from Savage Island, belonging to the group of 
P. porphyraceus, is endowed with a provisional name (P, 
whitmeei) in case it may eventually prove to belong to a 
distinct species.'’"’ 
Mr. Ramsay^s second paper, entitled Tabular List of the 
Birds of Australia,^^ is of some importance, as it gives a useful 
list of all known Australian birds, and a table showing their 
range in Australia : 744 species are acknowledged, the num¬ 
ber given in Mr. Gould^s ^ Hand-book^ having been 672. 
Some notes on obscure and uncertain species are appended, 
and a description of Pachycephala occidentalis, sp. nov., from 
Western Australia, allied to P. gutturalis. 
56. Capt. W. E. Armit on two Australian Poephilse. 
[Note on Australian Finches of the genus Poephila. Bj Captain Wil¬ 
liam E. Armit, F.L.S. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zoology, vol. xiv. p. 95.] 
Capt. Armit maintains the distinctness of Poephila gould(B 
from P. mirabiliSj basing his observations on specimens of both 
species obtained by himself in Queensland. [Cf. Ramsay, 
supra.~\ 
