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258 On Recent Ornithological Progress in New Guinea. 
vations Zoologiques.’ A number of nicely drawn lithographic 
plates accompany the work, amongst which are reduced 
coloured figures of Tanysiptera caroline, T. riedeli, Ptilopus 
speciosus, Trichoglossus rosenbergi, Pachycephala schlegeli, 
and Myzomela rosenbergi, all new birds discovered during 
these two journeys. There is also a coloured figure of the 
head of Casuarius papuanus (which may perhaps after all 
turn out to be not different from C. westermanni, nobis*), 
and an outline of the head of Drepanornis albertisi under 
Hr. von Rosenberg’s name of ‘‘ Epimachus veithii,’ which, 
as I have already pointed out in this Journal (‘ Ibis,’ 1874, 
p. 187), has no real claim to priority. Finally, there is a 
useful chart of the Bay of Geelvink and its islands. 
There remains now to be noticed what has been done in 
this country since last August towards the elucidation of the 
Papuan avifauna. Mr. Gould, having long since completed 
his ‘Supplement to the Birds of Australia,’ has now com- 
menced a second supplement to his great work, in con- 
junction with a series of illustrations of the birds’ of New 
Guinea and the adjacent islands}. Of this the first two 
parts have appeared, one dated 1875, and the other 1876. 
They contain life-sized figures in Mr. Gould’s usual style, of 
the following species :— 
Parr I. (1875). 
Peltops blainvillii. New Guinea. 
Parotia sexpennis. New Guinea. 
Drepanornis albertisi. New Guinea. 
Ailurcedus melanotis. Papuan Islands. 
—— arfakianus. Arfak Mountains. 
maculosus. Queensland. 
—— buccoides. New Guinea and Waigiou. 
Climacteris placens. New Guinea. 
Aprosmictus insignissimus. Darling Downs, Queensland. 
Cyclopsitta maccoyi. Rockingham Bay, Queensland. 



* Cf. P.Z.S. 1875, p. 84. - 
+ The Birds of New Guinea and the adjacent Papuan Islands, in- 
cluding any new species that may be discovered in Australia. By John 
Gould, F.R.S. &. PartsI.& Ul. Folio. 1875-76. 
















