We describe a new species of gekkonid lizard on the basis of 21 recently acquired specimens from Babuyan Claro Island, Babuyan Islands group, northern Philippines. The new species differs from other Philippine Gekko by characteristics of external morphology, color pattern, and body size. The new species has been found low on trunks and buttresses of mature closed-canopy climax forest trees at l...

About 20 years ago a bird that almost certainly was a South Island kokako or orange wattled crow Callaeas cinerea was seen on a branch on the edge of bush near Abut Head, South Westland. On 2 June 1997 in the same place, I saw a dark bird twice and heard two loud wing beats which matched recorded purported South Island kokako wing beats. Since about the late 1980s several long mournful double n...

Stationary magnetic perturbations are frequently observed to be followed by major disruptions [1–3]. They occur as a result of the locking of the plasma rotation, either by a resonant error field or through the interaction between a magnetic island and the resistive vessel wall [4,5]. This Letter examines the possibility of unlocking islands by injection of momentum. We find that inertial force...

The mesoscale structure of the low-level flow and the character of the turbulence are investigated for a warm front as it approached the prominent terrain of the Pacific Northwest in the vicinity of Vancouver Island. Flightlevel and airborne Doppler radar measurements collected from a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration P-3 research aircraft on 9 December 1995 during the Coastal Obs...

A new genus of Lebinthina (Orthoptera: Gryllidae: Eneopterinae) is erected based on species from Maluka Islands near northern Sulawesi (Indonesia): Platybinthus gen. nov. This currently consists three species. punctatus (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1898) et comb. Halmahera Island assigned as the type striolatus nov., also Island, redescribed. We describe a species: sandyi sp. Morotai Island.