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Show 672 ON BIRDS FROM THE DUKE-OF-YORK ISLANDS. [June 18, 7. MONARCHA INORNATUS (Garnot); Scl. P.Z.S. 1877, p. 552. This bird has not occurred in the former collections of Mr. Brown, but is a well-known and rather widely extended Papuan species. 15. BUCEROS RUFICOLLIS, Vieill.; Temm. Pl. Col. 577; Scl. P.Z.S. 1869, p. 122. Apparently an adult female of this Hornbill from Spacious Bay, New Britain. 20. GEOFFROIUS HETEROCLITUS. Psittacus heteroclitus, Hombr. et Jacq. Ann. Sc. Nat. xvi. p. Pionus heteroclitus, id. Voy. au P. S. Atl. t. 25 bis (3). Pione heteroclitus, Puch. ibid. Zool. iii. p. 103. A fine male of this species from N e w Ireland agrees with the original figure and description of that sex. One of the Solomon-Islands skins referred to, P. Z. S. 1869, p. 122, appears to be the female of this species, the other to belong to the next. 21. GEOFFROIUS CYANICEPS, Pucheran. A skin from New Britain marked " male," which has had the wings cut away, and has apparently been in a cage, is probably of the same species as that previously referred (P.Z. S. 1877, p. 107) to Geoffroius cyaniceps. This is decidedly smaller than G. heteroclitus, and has the top of the head of a pale greenish grey with the sides yellowish. Dr. Salvadori, who examined the specimen in the previous collection of Mr. Brown, remarks that it comes very near the female of G. simplex, Miiller. A better series of this bird is necessary before it can be made out decidedly. 25. CARPOPHAGA MELANOCHROA, sp. nov. (Plate XLII.) Nigricanti-ardesiaca fere unicolor, alis cauda et dorso inferiore in plumbeum transeuntibus ; alarum tectricibus omnibus marginibus angustissimis albisprceditis; subalaribus et crisso castaneo tinctis; rostro nigro; pedibuspurpureo-rubris. Long, tota 15*5, alee 9*5, caudae rectr. med. 6*0, ext. 5*5. Hab. Ins. Duke of York. This fine Fruit-pigeon is quite new to me, and, I believe, undescribed, though I am not acquainted with C. pistrinaria, Bp.1, of the Solomon Islands, to the neighbourhood of which it would appear to belong. Mr. Brown's single specimen is marked " male; eyes bright ' scarlet; legs purple." As will be seen from the measurements, the tail is slightly rounded ; there are fourteen rectrices, as is always, I believe, the case in Carpophaga. The under-surface of the tail is rather ashy white, that of the wings greyish black. The uniform dark colour, varied only by the very narrow margins of the wing-coverts, will render this species easily recognizable. 1 Consp. Av. ii. p. 36. |