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Show 1887.] FROM THE SOLOMON ARCHIPELAGO. 329 Young male. General colour above warm brown, with rufous edges to the feathers. Upper wing- and tail-coverts brown, with rufous edges. Quills above brown, with narrow light-red edges, indistiuctly barred with dark brown, except on the outer web of the primaries, the distal half of the inner web pale buffy red, showing the dark bars very strongly. Tail-feathers brown, with 9 or more narrow dark brown cross bars, the outer pair on each side inclining to reddish. Crown of head, occiput, and sides of neck dull brown. Nape and hind neck reddish brown, the former showing traces of grey. Lores, eyebrows, ear-coverts, and cheeks grey. Throat whitish grey. Neck, breast, and under tail-coverts buffy white, with broad reddish-brown bars on some of the feathers. Abdomen whitish buff and almost immaculate. Sides of body, flanks, and thighs reddish buff with faint bars of darker. Under wing-coverts and axillaries the same. Under surface of quills ashy white, shading into pale buffy red, with marked brown cross bars, indistinct on the outer web of the primaries. Measurements the same as above. This young male is evidently just entering its first moult, and has already got one of the adult grey feathers in the secondaries. 2. HALIASTUR GIRRENERA. Haliastur girrenera (V.) ; Salvad. t. c. i. p. 15. a, b. § ad. Alu. Iris brown ; bill and legs yellow. c. d juv. Fauro. Bill black ; iris brown; legs yellow. 3. PANDION LEUCOCEPHALUS. Pandion leucocephalus, Gould; Salvad. t. c. i. p. 11. a, b. d Alu. Iris pale or dull yellow; bill black; legs dirty grey. c. d juv. Alu. Iris reddish yellow. 4. CACATUA DUCORPSI. Cacatua ducorpsii, Jacq. & Pucher.; Salvad. t. c. i. p. 104. a. d ad. Alu. Iris brown ; skin round eye blue; bill and feet grey. 5. GEOFFROYIUS HETEROCLITUS. Geoffroyius heteroclitus (Hombr. & Jacq.); Salvad. t. c. i. p. 194. a. d ad. Alu. b, c. 2 ad. Alu. Iris pale yellow; bill black ; feet and legs grey. 6. ECLECTUS POLYCHLORUS. Eclectus pectoralis (P. L. S. Mull.) ; Salvad. t. c. i. p. 197. a. d ad. Alu. Upper mandible yellow ; legs black ; iris yellow. 0' c. d ad. Alu. Upper mandible orange, lower black; legs dirty grey ; iris yellow. Nom. vernac. " Karo." |