New or Confirmatory Information on Some Species of New Guinean Birds

Abstract

Information is presented on Netta pus coromandelianus (extension of range); Aviceda subcristata (herbivory); Harpyopsis novaeguineae (hunting); Falco severus (attacking waders); Tumix maculosa (tree roosting); Eulabeomis plumbeiventris (extension of range, habitat, breeding, identification); Reinwardtoena reinwardtsi (ground feeding); Chalcophaps indica (speed of flight); C stephani (nesting); Henicophaps albifrons (nesting, calls, flushing); Gallicolumba rufigula (foraging on display grounds of Diphy llodes, calls); Trugon terrestris (flushing, calls, attraction to running water); Ptilinopus nanus (nectarivory); Ducula pinon (display); Chalcopsitta scintilla fa (drinking fermented liquids, melanism and/or affinities with C atra, feeding of fledglings, size of parties); Neopsittacus musschenbroekii and N pullicauda (comparison of behaviours); Micropsitta pusio (eating termites); Opopsitta gulielmitertii (eating hard seeds); Scythrops novaehollandiae (breeding status); Ptilorrhoa caerulescens (nesting); Rhipidura threnothorax (foraging); Monarcha melanopsis (possible breeding in New Guinea); M chrysomela (display, nesting); Arses telescophlhalmus (appeasement display); Pachycephala leucogaster (extension of range, affinities with P. monacha); Aplonis metallica (nectarivory, nesting with raptor); Mino anais (extension of range, nesting).