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Show 690 MR. P. L. SCLATER ON BIRDS FROM NEW GUINEA. [Nov. 4, 34. Suthora conspicillata, sp. nov. Kokonor. 35. Allotrius aenobarbus (Temm.), var.pallidus. Ibid. 36. Hesperiphona affinis (Blyth). Moupin. 37. Garpodacus pallasi, Bp. Pekin. 38. Palceornis derbianus, Gray. Moupin. 39. Vivia innominata, Burton. Kokonor. 40. Puffinus leucomelas, Temm. Shantung. The last is added, I think, only on conjecture ; but it is not said so, and we must admit it also. At the end of his catalogue, Pere David gives the distinctive characters of his Ianthocincla arte-misiee, described before in the ' Ann. & Mag. of Nat. Hist.' for April 1871, to which reference is made, and adds three new species (and one variety), to wit:-Suthora conspicillata, from Kokonor ; Alcippe cinerea of the bird from Moupin, identified by Verreaux with A. nipalensis, Hodgs. ; and Paradoxornis guttaticollis oi the bird from Moupin, considered by Verreaux to be P. flavirostris, Gould. These make no further increase to our number ; 40 added to the 675 of my Catalogue, gives 715 species of birds noted from China up to the end of A.D. 1871. Chefoo, May 12, 1873. 3. Characters of new Species of Birds discovered in New Guinea by Signor d'Albertis. By P. L. SCLATER, M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S., Secretary to the Society. [Received August 1, 1873.] (Plates LII.-LVII.) At the last meeting of this Society, I had the pleasure of exhibiting to the members a collection of birds made by Signor Luigi Maria d'Albertis, during his recent expedition into the interior of New Guinea, and of pointing out the characters of two new Paradise-birds, which formed part of it*. I have now examined the rest of the collection, which contains altogether seventy-nine skins belonging to fifty-three species, and find in it representatives of fourteen other species which appear to be new, and which I propose to characterize as follows:- 1. EUPETES LEUCOSTICTUS, sp. n. (Plate LII.) Supra saturate oleagineo-viridis, pileo cum cervice postica castaneis: alis nigris, harum tectricibus maculis rotundis albis ornatis; secundariis autem externis dorso concoloribus: loris, regione oculari et striga utrinque postoculari cum mento et gula media nigris : plaga magna cervicali utrinque alba: cervice antica nigra albo punctata .- abdomine ceerulescente cinereo, latercditer * See above, p. 557 cf seq. |