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Show 1867.] DR. G. H A R T L A U B O N BIRDS F R O M T H E PACIFIC. 829 the fine greenish-blue colour of the back ; a second has the forehead and superciliaries white; in another the crown of the head is white, with some bluish feathers in the middle, the auricular region and a very narrow interrupted nuchal collar being of the same colour; in a somewhat younger specimen there is only one dark spot on the white cap, and the colour of the back is an obsolete dirty green. For the complete synonymy of this species, conf. Cab. Mus. Hein. ii. p. 159. "Tanatick" inc. The only existing original figure is that of Gould's (Halcyon saurophaga), in the ' Zoology of the Sulphur.' It shows the head all white. H. albicilla has been collected on the Marian Islands, N e w Ireland, N e w Guinea, Batjan, Morotay, and the Pelew group. 4. MYZOMELA RUBRATRA, Less. Two ad. spec, Pelew group and Carolines. "Sisebanjo" inc. The Pelew group has been already indicated by G. R. Gray as a locality for this species. Von Kittlitz observed it on the island of Ualan, and gives interesting details about its manners, propagation, &c. W e consider the Myzomela major of Bonaparte to be a merely nominal species (conf. Von Kittl. Reise, i. p. 381). 5. COLLOCALIA VANICORENSIS (Q. & G.). It is extremely difficult and uncertain to find out definite differential characters between some of these Collocalice. A fine specimen of the true C. fuciphaga from the island of Reunion, in the Bremen collection, resembles in almost every respect our Collocalice from the Viti and Pelew group ! Inc. " Cobusock." Von Kittlitz mentions this bird under the name of Cypselus inquietus. H e describes it as observed on the island of Ualan (Reise, ii. p. 26). 6. MONARCHA GODEFFROYI, n. sp. (Pl. XXXVIII.) Ad. Alba; capite toto cum mento et gutture, alis et cauda nigris ; subalaribus et subcaudalibus nigris ; rectricibus nonnullis lateralibus macula alba minuta vix conspicua apicali notatis ; rostro plumbeo, tomiis et apice pallidioribus; pedibus nigricantibus. Long, circa 7i", rostr. a fr. 7'", alse 3" 2'", caudse 3", tars. 10'". Jun. (fcem.?). Dorso nigro alboque vario; collo toto albo; capite, alis, cauda, pectore et abdomine nigris. Juv. Supra sordide cinerascens, fulvo lavata ; tergo uropygioque magis fulvescentibus; remigibus et tectricibus fulvo marginatis ; gastreeo ochroleuco. Perhaps confined to the island of Yap, where the three specimens here described were shot. This fine new bird is nearly allied to Monarcha rugensis, from the much more eastern Hogoleu group. But the distribution of the black and white colour is altogether different. |