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Show 106 MR. P. L. SCLATER ON BIRDS FROM [Feb. 20, 29. EURYSTOMUS CRASSIROSTRIS, Sclater, P.Z. S. 1869, p. 121. One skin, agreeing with the type from the Solomon Islands, is marked female, but has no exact locality indicated. 30. CENTROPUS ATERALBUS. Centropus ateralbus, Less. Voy. Coq. Zool. i. p. 620, Atl. t. 34 ; Scl. P.Z.S. 1869, p. 122. A skin of this Coucal is labelled " N e w Britain and New Ireland," the collector having, I suppose, found it in both these islands. It has the whole head white, except a few frontal feathers, and a white patch on each flank. But I am not disposed to regard the differences from Lesson's figure as more than individual. 31. CENTROPUS VIOLACEUS. Centropus violaceus, Quoy & Gaim. Voy. de l'Astrol. Zool. i. p. 229, t. 19. One skin of this fine species, from New Britain, marked " male." Quoy and Gaimard obtained it in New Ireland. The total length of the present specimen is about 25*0 in., wing 9*5, tail 14*0. The bill is black, the feet apparently whitish or pale yellow. Dr. Meyer's Nesocentor violaceus1, from Mysore, has been recently separated by Salvadori as N. chalybeus (Ann. Mus. Gen. vii. p. 915). 32. CACOMANTIS INSPERATUS. Cuculus insperatus, Gould, P. Z. S. 1845, p. 19, et B. Austr. iv. pl. 87. Cuculus assimilis, Gray, P. Z.S. 1858, p. 184 (?). Cacomantis insperatus, Gould, Hand-b. B. Austr. i. p. 619. Cuculus dumetorum, Gould, P. Z. S. 1845, p. 19 (?). One example from Duke-of-York Island, one from New Britain, and a third with locality not marked. These skins seem to agree sufficiently with Gould's figure. I have compared them with three Australian skins in the collection of Mr. Godman, obtained from Cockerell; and I consider them referable to the same species. Two of Mr. Godman's skins are marked " C. dumetorum," and a third (younger) bird " C. insperatus." 33. EUDYNAMIS PICATUS. Cuculus rufiventer, Less. Voy. Coq. Zool. i. p. 622. Eudynamis rufiventer, Walden, Ibis, 1869, p. 344. Eudynamis picatus, Miill. Verh. Ethn. p. 176; Cab. et Heine, Mus. Hein. ii. p. 55. A pair of the Black Eudynamis, which must, I suppose, be referred to this form of E. orientalis. They measure : - cf, total length 17 inches, wing 8*1, tail 8*8 ; ? , total length 15*5 inches, wing 8, tail 8. The exact locality is not given. 34. ECLECTUS POLYCHLORUS (Scop.). From Duke-of-York Island Mr. Brown sends two skins of what, 1 Mitth. zool. Mus. Dresden, pt, i. p. 16 (1875). |