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Show 712 DR. O. FINSCH ON A N E W STURNUS. [June 18, 41. LIMICOLA PLATYRHYNCHA. Tringa platyrhyncha, Temm. Man. d'Orn. p. 398 (1815). [N. Bohol, 2 > October.] The specimens have been submitted to Mr. Dresser, who is of opinion that they belong to this species and not to L. sibirica. 42. TRINGA ALBESCENS. Tringa albescens, Temminck, Pl. Col. 41, f. 2. [N. Bohol, 3 2 , October and November.] New to the Philippines. 43. GALLINAGO SCOLOPACINA (187). [N. Bohol, 3, November.] 44. BUBULCUS COROMANDUS (194). [N. Bohol, 2, October.] 45. HERODIAS GARZETTA (195). [N. Bohol, 3, October.] 46. DENDROCYGNA VAGANS (203). [N. Bohol, 3 2 > October and November.] 47. STERNA BERGII. Sterna bergii, Licht. Verz. d. Doubl. Berl. Mus. p. 80. [N. Bohol, 3 $, November.] 9. On a new Species of Starling. By O. FINSCH, Ph.D., C.M.Z.S. [Eeceived June 17, 1878.] This species, which I propose to name after General Poltaratzsky, Governor of Semipalatinsk, is easily distinguishable from our common Starling by having the back green instead of purplish-violet, and the underparts below the neck of a deep purplish-violet instead of green as in the remaining species. I found this Stalling breeding on Lake Marka-Kul, in the Chinese High Altai, about 5000 feet above the sea-level. A careful comparison of it with the rich series of Sturni in the British Museum has convinced me that it belongs to a distinct species hitherto confounded with St. vulgaris and its allies. The British Museum contains fifteen specimens of the same bird from North-Western India, Persia, and Baluchistan. Specimens from the two last-named localities are marked St. unicolor and St. vulgaris by Mr. Blanford. The single specimen of a Starling brought home by Mr. Seebohm from the Yenisey belongs also to this species. It is the St. humei, Gould (1877), but not of Brooks (1876), and most probably also the St. vulgaris of Radde and Schrenck from Eastern Siberia. The |