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Show 332 ON BIRDS FROM THE SOLOMON ARCHIPELAGO. [Mar. 15, 24. MlNO KREFFTI. Mino kreffti (Sclat.); Salvad. t. c. ii. p. 469. a. 2 ad. Alu. Legs, beak, and patch round the eye bright yellow ; iris yellow, pupil black. Nom. vernac. " Tigeno." b. d ad. Fauro. Iris, legs, and bill bright yellow. c. 2 ad. Fauro. Iris, eye-patches, legs, and bill bright orange. 25. MACROCORAX WOODFORDI, sp. nov. (Plate XXVII.) a. 2 ad- Aola, Guadalcanar. Iris dark grey; bill grey (yellowish in the skin, with black tip) ; legs black. The general colour above is black glossed with greenish on the head and neck and purplish blue over the rest of the upper surface. Head, neck all round, underparts, flanks, thighs, and under tail-coverts black, glossed with green. The rest of the feathers black, glossed with purplish blue, except some of the feathers of the wing-coverts, back, secondaries, and primaries, which are dull brownish black and evidently worn, as the bird is in full moult. Total length 15| inches, culmen 2*3, wing 10-3, tail 5, tarsus 2. This species is very strongly marked, being one third smaller than the only other known species M. fuscicapillus, Gray, from the Aru Islands, from which it also differs in general colour and in having the upper mandible less strongly arched. 26. PTILOPUS LEWISI. Ptilopus lewisii, Ramsay; Sharpe in Gould's ' Birds of New Guinea,' pt. xvii. a, b. d ad. Alu. Bill yellow ; feet red; iris yellow. 27- GLOBICERA RUFIGULA. Carpophaga rufigula, Salvad. t. c. iii. p. 79. a. d ad. Malayta. Bill, wattle, legs, and iris red. This specimen agrees well in every respect with the type specimen in the British Museum, and is easily distinguished from the nearly allied G. rubricera of G. R. Gray, from New Ireland, by the burnished green-gold back, pale vinous throat, and dove-grey chest, while in the latter the back is burnished red-gold and the throat uniform pale vinous with the chest. 28. MACROPYGIA RUFO-CASTANEA. Macropygia rufo-castanea, Ramsay; Salvad. t. c. iii. p. 149. a. d ad. Alu. Eye brown ; bill and legs brown. 29. CALCENAS NICOBARICA. Calcenas nicobarica (Linn.) ; Salvad. t. c. iii. p. 209. a. d ad. Alu. Iris pale yellow ; bill and feet black. 30. MEGAPODIUS BRENCHLEYI. Megapodius brenchleyi, Gr. R. Gr.; Salvad. t. c. iii. p. 240. a. 2 ad. Alu. Bill dull yellow; legs black ; iris brown. |
