THE IBIS. 
FIFTH SERIES. 
No. XIII. JANUARY 1886. 
I.— On two new Species of Birds from New Ireland. 
By O. Finsch, Ph.D., H.M.B.O.U. 
(Plate I.) 
1. Donacicola hunsteini, sp. nov. (Plate I.) 
Male. Black, quills lighter, more of a brownish black; 
vertex and nape ashy grey, the latter lighter; all these 
greyish feathers with dark brown centres; lores and cheeks 
black, with faint greyish apical edges, giving these parts a 
somewhat mottled appearance; upper tail-coverts dark chest¬ 
nut, as are the external margins of the central tail-feathers; 
under wing-coverts pale rufous; bill and feet black; iris 
dark. Total length 3*3 inches, wing P9, tail 1*0. 
Female like the male, but the upper tail-coverts brighter, 
more of a cinnamon-brown. 
The young bird (Plate I. fig. 2) is dark brown, mixed with 
black and pale fulvous on breast and vent; on the nape are 
a few grey-tipped feathers ; upper tail-coverts and tail 
uniform brown. 
Fully adult specimens show very narrow greyish edgings 
to the feathers of the throat, which sometimes form a kind 
of interrupted semi-collar. 
Hab. I discovered this handsome species at the extreme 
ser. v.— VOL. IV. 
B 
