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Show 1875.] DR. O. FINSCH ON NEW POLYNESIAN BIRDS. 643 Eastern Carolines. Mr. Kubary, tbe well-known Godeffroyian traveller, has spent more than one year in exploring this island; but unfortunately all his collections were lost by the wreck of the ship. The birds saved from this accident are referable to about nineteen species, of which no less than five are undescribed. An extended paper on the birds of Ponape will appear in the ' Journal of the Museum Godeffroy,' forming the second part of m y " Ornithology of the Pacific Islands." Meanwhile I am anxious to publish the characters of the new species, which may stand as follows. 1. PETROICA KLEINSCHMIDTI, sp. nov. Upper surface dark brown ; sides of head and neck paler; middle of chin and throat whitish ; crop and breast light red, remainder of underparts white ; quills black-brown on the inner web, with a white cross mark commencing from the fourth quill; the last secondary is margined externally with rusty brown ; coverts of the secondaries and upper wing-coverts margined at the end narrowly but distinctly with rusty brown; tail-feathers brownish black, the outermost on the apical half externally white, the second tail-feather only with a narrow white external margin and tip. Bill brownish black ; feet brownish. Long. alas. caud. culm. tars. 3|" 2" 1'" 15'" c. 4'" 7^'" Hab. Feejee Islands, Tai-Levu or Viti-Levu (Kleinschmidt). Obs. Differs from P. pusilla, Peale, from the Navigators', in lacking the white front and large white mark on the wing-coverts. 2. ZOSTEROPS PONAPENSIS, sp. nov. Upper parts dark olive-brown, wings and tail darker, very narrowly margined externally with lighter brown; lores, sides of head and underparts brownish ashy, the flanks distinctly brownish; a narrow greyish eye-ring ; feathers of front with narrow pale shafts. Bill blackish ; feet dark plumbeous. Long alas. caud. rostr. tars. 3 A 2„ ^ 16"- 4'" 8'" Hab. Ponape, Seniavin group (Kubary). Allied to Z. (Tephras) finschi, Hartl., but smaller, and the underparts distinct brownish ashy. 3. VOLVOCIVORA INSPERATA, Sp. nOV. Male like that of V. monacha, H. and F., but without black on the chin and throat, the whole under surface slate-grey; no distinct white margins on the inner web of the primaries, and the outer tail-feathers broadly pointed with slate-grey. Female totally different from that of V. monacha. Head above, nape, and lores brownish grey; remainder of upper parts dark maroon-brown ; rump, upper tail-coverts, and the whole under surface |