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61. Finsch and Meyer on Birds from New Guinea. 
[Vogel von Neu-Guinea, zumeist aus der Alpenregion am Siidostab- 
hange des Owen Stanley-Gebirges (Hufeisengebirge, 7000-8000' hoch), 
gesammelt von Karl Hunstein, bearbeitet von O, Finsch und A. B. Meyer. 
Zeitschr. f. d. ges. Ornithol. 1886, Heft i.] 
This is the second and concluding portion of the article of 
the first part of which we have given above (pp. 237-258) 
a translation by the kind permission of the authors. The 
present portion treats of 69 species,, mostly from the Horse¬ 
shoe Mountain, in the south-east confines of the Owen- 
Stanley range in New Guinea. Of these the following 
twelve are characterized as new to science:— Psittacella 
pallida, P. madaraszi, Eos incondita, Charmosyna stellce, 
Arses henkei, Rhipidura cinnamomea, Myzomela ramsayi, 
Melipotes fumigatus, Melidectes emilii, Ptilotis fulvocinerea, 
Ptilopus patruelis, and Eutrygon leucoparia. All these birds 
are figured with the exception of Psittacella pallida, Myzo¬ 
mela ramsayi, and Eutrygon leucoparia. A figure is also 
given of the curious diminutive Cuckoo Microdynamisparva 
of Salvador^ with which E. P. Ramsay's Rhamphomantis rollesi 
(Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. viii. p. 25) is said to be probably 
identical. The exact locality of the specimen is not stated. 
62. Hancock on the Cuckoo. 
[Note on the habit of the young Cuckoo in ejecting the Eggs and Young 
of its Foster-parent from the Nest, observed by John Hancock, at Oatlands, 
Surrey, in June 1884. Nat. Hist. Trans, of Northumb., Durham, and 
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, vol. viii.] 
Mr. Hancock selected, as most convenient for observation, 
the nest of a Hedge-Accentor containing one Cuckoo's egg 
and four of those of the former. The process of ejectment of 
the produce of the foster-parents was carefully watched, and 
was found to agree with the descriptions previously given 
by Jenner, Montagu, and Mrs. Blackburn. Mr. Hancock 
expresses his surprise at the remark of a recent writer who 
says that “ one feels inclined to class these narratives with 
the equally well-authenticated stories of ghosts and other 
apparitions which abound." Mr. Hancock says that no crni- 
