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Show 104 MR. P. L. SCLATER ON BIRDS FROM [Feb. 20, Nectarinia flavigastra, Gould, P. Z. S. 1843, p. 104 ; Zool. Sulph. p. 43, pl. 24(.?). Nectarinia australis, Gould, B. Austr. Suppl. pl. 45. Mr. Brown sends me from New Ireland an adult male and female of this species. This is very interesting ; for the female of the New- Ireland bird was described and figured by Mr. Gould in 1844, under the title of Nectarinia flavigastra. There can be no doubt, Capt. Shelley tells me, of the identity of the New-Ireland bird with N frenata, which has the following wide range-Celebes, Moluccas, New Guinea, New Ireland, islands of Torres Straits and North-pastern Australia. This bird will be figured in Capt. Shelley's 'Monograph of the Cinnyridee,' part 3. 17. PHILEMON COCKERELLI, sp. nov. Supra fuscus unicolor, pileo et capitis lateribus paulo obscuriori-bus: subtus dilutior, fusco-cinereus, gutture albicanliore et striisangustisplumarum scapasoccupantibus instructo: fronte, loris, oculorum ambitu et mandibula inferiore usque ad aures denudatis: plumis auricularibus dorso concoloribus: rostri tuberculo nullo : rostro obscure corneo, pedibus albicanti-plum-beis: long, tota 13'0, alee 60, caudce 5*0, tarsi 1*7. Hab. New Britain (Feb. 1876). Obs. Similis P. moluccensi, sed pileo obscuriore, dorso omnino concolori dignoscendus; a P. fuscicapillo colore corporis inferioris dilutiore diversus. I have already pointed out (P. Z. S. 1869, p. 120) the necessity pf using Philemon as the name of this genus. 18. CALORNIS NITIDA. Calornis nitida, G. R. Gray, P. Z. S. 1858, p. 181. Lamprotornis metallicus, Garn. Voy. de la Coq. Zool. i. p. 343. (falornis metallica, Scl. P. Z. S. 1869, p. 120. A pair of this species from Duke-of-York Island. The male agrees wif;h Mr. Gray's type, collected during the voyage of the ' Sulphur' in N e w Ireland. Whether it be really separable from C. metallica, I must leave the monographer to decide. 19. GRACULA KREFFTI. Gracula kreffti, Scl. P. Z. S. 1869, p. 120, pl. ix. Gracula gnathoptila, Cab. et Reich. Journ. f. Orn. 1876, p. 322. M y original example of this species having been received in spirit, the yellow colour of the bel]y was much faded, and the absence of the naked jaw-stripe (which occurs in G. dumonti) was not noted. Both these characters are well developed in the present example from New Ireland; and I have no doubt that the New-Hanover bird, which has been recently termed G. gnathoptila, is of the same species. 20. CORVUS, sp. inc. A single skin of a Crow from New Britain, which Mr. Sharpe, |