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perieures et inferieures sont noiratres; la base des plumes 
est blanche; du blanc a la base du bee, au derriere de la tete 
et au col; les remiges et les rectrices rayees transversalement 
de gris ardoise; le dessous de Paile raye de blanchatre et de 
noiratre; les lignes des rectrices plus etroites; le dessous au 
cote interne presque blanc ; quelques indices de taches rousses 
sur les couvertures inferieures de Paile et aux cuisses.” 
Correction. I take this opportunity of correcting an error 
or misprint in one of my former papers : in f The Ibis/ 1875, 
p. 365, the asterisk in line 6 should be affixed to “polioce- 
phalus,” not to “ haplochrous.” 
[To be continued.] 
XXII.— On Recent Ornithological Progress in New Guinea. 
By P. L. Sclater. 
In my address last year to the Biological Section of the British 
Association at Bristol I gave a short summary of the informa¬ 
tion at that time accessible to us upon the ornithology of New 
Guinea. But so much has been added to our knowledge of 
this strange land even within the short period that has since 
passed that I propose to offer to the readers of this Journal 
some supplementary remarks upon the same subject. In 
Italy, Germany, and England alike, during the past six 
months there have appeared contributions of greater or less 
importance towards our knowledge of the Papuan avifauna, 
concerning each of which I propose to say a few words. 
Commencing with the first-named country, we have an 
ornithological letter of Dr. O. Beccari*, the'quondam com¬ 
panion of D'Albertis, of the greatest interest, communicated 
by our ever active friend Dr. Salvadori. Dr. Beccari dates 
from Ternate on the 4th of last August, whither he had 
* “Lettera ornitologica di 0. Beccari intorno agli Uccelli osservati 
durante un suo recente Viaggio alia Nuova Guinea,” Ann. del Mus. Civ. 
di St. Nat. di Genova, vol. vii. p. 704 (1875). I am indebted to Mr. Elwes 
for writing out an English translation of this letter, of which I have largely 
availed myself. 
