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Collocalia terrae-reginse. Rockingham Bay, Queensland. 
Xerophila pectoralis. Port Augusta, S. Australia. 
Sericornis minimus. Australia. 
Part II. (1876). 
Charmosyna papuensis. Atam, New Guinea. 
Diphyllodes gulielmi-tertii. Mountains of Eastern Waigiou. 
-speciosa. New Guinea. 
-chrysoptera. Waigiou. 
Pitta maxima. Gilolo. 
Melampitta luguhris. New Guinea. 
Campephaga strenua. Atam, Arfak Mountains. 
Melithreptus laetior. Australia. 
Ptilotis frenata. Cardwell district, Queensland, 
-flavostriata. Rockingham Bay, Queensland. 
Rhipidura dryas. Australia (North-western). 
Ptilonopus nanus. Triton Bay, New Guinea: Mysol. 
Amytis goyderi. S. Australia. 
The only other English work hearing upon New Guinea that 
has lately appeared is Captain Moresby's account of his 
surveys of the south-eastern and northern coasts* *. There is 
nothing strictly ornithological in this volume; but it will be 
read with interest by those who study the fauna of Papua as 
giving accurate geographical details about many little-known 
localities, and as containing the only map we know of in 
which f * Yule Island/' D'Albertis's headquarters, is correctly 
marked. 
XXIII.— Notes on a Collection of Birds from the New 
Hebrides. By H. B. Tristram, F.R.S. 
I have lately received, through the kindness of Rev. J. 
Inglis, who has been for many years a missionary at Anei- 
teum, in the New Hebrides, a small consignment of birds and 
eggs collected at Aneiteum, Aniwa, and Erromanga. It may 
be of some little interest to give a list of the collection, inas- 
* Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea and the D’Entrecasteaux 
Islands, a cruise in Polynesia and visits to the Pearl-shelling stations in 
Torres Straits of H.M.S. ‘Basilisk.’ By Captain John Moresby, R.N. 
London: Murray. 1876. 1 vol. 8vo. 
