News from New Guinea. 363 
Accounts of D’Albertis’s excursion to Nou, Bioto, and 
Naiabui (small villages on the mainland opposite Yule Island) 
in the summer of 1875 are given in a recently published 
number of ‘Cosmos’*; but little reference is made to birds 
in them. 
While D’Albertis has fixed his headquarters at Yule Island, 
a party from Sydney has established itself at Port Moresby, a 
little to the south, and is making successful excursions into 
theinteriort. As this expedition, which is under the conduct 
of Mr. O. C. Stone, numbers amongst its members Messrs. 
Broadbent and Pettard, the well-known collectors and taxi- 
dermists of Sydney, there can be little doubt that ornithology 
will be by no means neglected by them, and that we shall 
before long have to record some of their discoveries in this 
branch. 
Since I wrote my last article Dr. A. B. Meyer has sent 
me a separate copy of a paper from the “ Sitzungsberichte ” 
of the ‘Isis’ at Dresden. It contains descriptions of Phle- 
genas jobiensis, Micreca papuana, Budytes nove-guinee, 
and Parus arfaki (already characterized in his article in the 
first number of the ‘ Mittheilungen aus dem k. zoologischen 
Museum zu Dresden,’ see above, p. 256), and a summary of 
our knowledge of the Papuan Psittacide. 
Mr. Gould is preparing for issue a third part of his ‘ Birds 
of New Guinea, which will contain illustrations of the follow- 
ing species, many of them of rare beauty and of excessive 
interest :-— 
Part III. May 1876. 
Tanysiptera caroline. Diphyllodes respublica. 
Ceyx solitaria. Cicinnurus regius. 
Charmosyna josephine. _ Pachycare tlavo-grisea. 
Charmosyna pulchella. Eupetes czerulescens. 
Psitteuteles arfaki. Sternula placens. 
Psitteuteles wilhelminz. Gliciphila subfasciata, 
Psitteuteles placens. 


* “Recenti Spedizioni alla Nuova Guinea,” Cosmos, vol. iii. p. 217 
{April 1876). 
+ See Proc. R. Geogr. Soc, March 13th, 1876. 
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