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Show 1888.] ON THE BIRDS OF THE SOLOMON ARCHIPELAGO. 185 Adult female. Similar to the female of E. remotum, but distinguished by its entirely chestnut tail, the whole of the lower hack, rump, and upper tail-coverts being light rufous: " bill, legs, and iris black" (CM. Woodford). Total length 8 inches, culmen 0-85, wing 4*4, tail 3, tarsus 0*9. The specific name is founded on the characters of the female, which in this genus of Campophagidae possesses the most strongly marked distinctions. Fam. MUSCICAPID-E. POMAREA ERYTHROSTICTA, Sp. 11. Pomarea castaneiventris (nee Verr.), Grant, P. Z. S. 1887, p. 331. Adult female. General colour purplish black ; lesser and median wing-coverts like the back ; greater coverts, primary-coverts, quills, and tail-feathers black, with a slight purplish gloss on the edges of the feathers ; sides of head, throat, and chest glossy purplish black like the back ; in front of the eye a spot of bright cinnamon ; breast, abdomen, sides of body, flanks, and under tail-coverts deep chestnut; thighs chestnut with black bases; under wing-coverts and axilhiries chestnut, the former with black bases ; edge of wing black ; lower primary-coverts ashy ; quills dusky below, ashy along the edge of wing towards the base : " bill grey ; legs black ; iris brown " (C. M. Woodford). Total length 5"6 inches, culmen 0#73 wing 3'15, tail 2-2, tarsus 0*75. Hab. Fauro. There is no doubt that this species is distinct from P. castaneiventris, the rufous spot in front of the eye distinguishing it at a glance. 3. Second List of the Birds collected by Mr. C. M. Woodford in the Solomon Archipelago. By W . R. O G I L V I E - GRANT1. [Received February 21, 1888.] (Plate X.) In the Proceedings of this Society, 1887, pp. 328-333, I had the pleasure of giving a list, with some notes on the first collection, of Birds made by Mr. C. M . Woodford at Fauro, Alu, Shortland Island, and other localities in the Solomon Archipelago, which contained examples of 35 species, two (Macrocorax woodfordi and Monarcha ergthrosticta) being new to science. The second collection made by the same gentleman, and described in the present paper, is much more extensive, and contains representatives of 66 species, of which the majority were obtained at Aola and Rovatu, in the Island of Guadalcanar, between the months of April and July 1887 ; while a few were got at the little island of llubiana in March of the same year. 1 See P.Z.S. 1887, p.328. |