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Show 108 MR. P. L. SCLATER ON BIRDS FROM [Feb. 20, A single skin of this Cockatoo has no exact locality affixed to it. It measures-whole length 17*5 inches, wing 11*5, tail 6*8. 38. NASITERNA PUSIO. Nasiterna pusio, Scl. P. Z. S. 1865, p. 620, pl. xxxv. The single skin of this species agrees well with the typical specimen, which I presented to the British Museum after describing it. The exact locality is not marked. 39. LORIUS HYPCENOCHROUS. Lorius hypoinochrous, Gray, List of Psitt. p. 49 (1859). Lorius hypcenochrous, Scl. P. Z. S. 1869, p. 123, et 1876, p. 460. One skin, marked " N e w Britain and New Ireland," meaning, I suppose, that it occurs in both localities. 40. TRICHOGLOSSUS MASSENCE, Bp. Dr. Cabanis (Journ. f. Orn. 1876, p. 324) has lately separated an allied species from New Hanover as T. flavicans; but Mr. Brown's single skin appears to me to belong to the true T. massence. Its exact locality is not stated. 41. TRICHOGLOSSUS SUBPLACENS, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1876, p. 519. Psitteuteles subplacens, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. ix. p. 10. From Duke-of-York Island we have a pair of this recently described species. The female corresponds exactly with the same sex in T. placens, but, like the male, has the rump entirely green, like the back. D'Albertis procured only a single male of this Parrot in S.E. New Guinea, opposite Yule Island. 42. NINOX ODIOSA, sp. nov. Supra murino-brunnea, plumis capitis et cervicis usque ad dorsum medium albo guttatis : superciliis in fronte conjunctis albis : alis extus maculis rotundis albis in plumarum marginibus externis ornatis ; remigibus intus ad basin albis: subtus albus, pectore dorso concolori, albo guttato et transfasciato, ventre et hypochondriis striis paucis fuscis ornato : rostro flavo, pedibus fuscis: tarsis totisplumosis, digitis setosis : long, tota corp. 7*0, alee 5*8. Hab. New Britain (Feb. 1876). There is but one specimen of this Owl in the collection ; and that is, unfortunately, imperfect, the tail being absent, and the wings having been partly cut. There is, however, sufficient evidence that it belongs to a species of Ninox, not hitherto recognized, allied to N. punctulata1 of Celebes, but distinguished by the larger and more distinct spots above, and the flammulated belly. 43. PANDION HALIAETUS. A skin of this universally distributed species. 1 Noctua punctulata, Quoy et Gaim. Voy. Astr. Zool. i. p. 165. |