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Show 642 DR. O. FINSCH ON NEW POLYNESIAN BIRDS.- [Dec. 7, The tarsus is slender and considerably longer than the middle toe with the claw, whereas in Melanocharis the tarsus is only a little longer than the middle toe with claw. Otherwise the form of the feet and legs agree, the tarsus being also caligated in the new genus. The species I propose to call PRISTORHAMPHUS VERSTERI, sp. nov. Whole upper surface, including sides of the head and neck, dull olive-green ; quills and tail-feathers brownish black, margined on the outer web narrowly with a brighter, more yellowish olive-green; the external tail-feather on the inner web with a conspicuous large white median spot, which is less extended on the second tail-feather ; remiges margined on the basal portion of the inner web narrowly with whitish ; chin, throat, and remainder of underparts dull olive-grey, the sides of the breast washed with greenish olive-grey ; the middle of the lower breast and vent changing into pale yellowish white ; lower wing-coverts and the long axillary feathers silky white, washed with pale yellow; bill and feet black. Long. rectr. rectr. dig. int. tot. alas. intern, extern, culm. tars. incl. ung. millim. millim. milbm. millim. millim. millim. millim. c. 130 62 57 47 10 23 15 Pristorhamphus. c. 115 64 43 41 11 16 13 <$ Melanocharis. c. 112 62 40 38 10 15 13$ The collection contains only two specimens of the bird, which are precisely alike. As they correspond in colour exactly with the female of Melanocharis nigra, it may be supposed that they do not exhibit the dress of the old male, which may probably turn out to be very different in coloration. But however this may be, this species will be always distinguishable by the white spot on the inner web of the two external tail-feathers, even without regard to the strongly marked generic differences. I have great pleasure in naming this new and interesting although modestly coloured bird after m y dear friend Mr. F. A. Verster, the meritorious Administrator of the Rijks Museum at Leiden, whose name deserves to be preserved in science and in the galleries of the National Museum of Holland. 5. Characters of six new Polynesian Birds in the M u s e um Godeffroy at Hamburg. By O T T O F I N S C H , Ph.D., C.M.Z.S. [Received November 8, 1875.] Besides a bird from the Feejees, which has been collected and forwarded by Mr. Theodor Kleinschmidt, of Nai-Koro, Ovalau, and which proves to be new, I have the pleasure of characterizing five new species of birds from Ponape (or Puynipet), Seniavin group, |