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Show 1877.] DUKE-OF-YORK ISLAND, ETC. 109 44. HALIASTUR GIRRENERA (Vieill.) ; Sharpe, Cat. i. p. 315. One .adult example. Locality not given. 45. ACCIPITER ETORQUES. Urospizias etorques, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. vii. p. 901. An adult, and a young specimen, apparently of this new species, lately described by Salvadori from New Guinea and Salawatty, are in the collection, but without exact locality. The only divergence I note from Salvadori's description of the adult is, that in my specimen the tail-feathers (partly in moult) are of a nearly uniform plumbeous, with but very faint indications of any cross markings. 46. BAZA REINWARDTI (Mull, et Schleg.). A single skin of this species, exact locality not marked, nearly agrees with some specimens in the British Museum. 47. CARPOPHAGA RUBRICERA. Columba pinon, Less. Zool. Voy. Coq. i. p. 343 (err.) ? Globicera rubricera, Bp. C. R. xxxix. p. 1073, et Consp. ii. p. 31 (1854), et Ic. d. Pig. t. xxxix. Carpophaga rubracera, Gray, List of Col. in B. M . p. 18. Carpophaga lepida, Cass. Pr. Ac. Sc. Phil. vii. p. 230 (1854). One skin of this fine species, without exact locality. The original type of Bonaparte, however, is from New Ireland ; and a second established patria is San Christoval, Solomon Islands (MacGillivray in Brit. Mus.). 48. CARPOPHAGA VAN-WYCKI. Carpophaga van-wyckii, Cassin, Pr. Ac. Sc. Phil. xiv. p. 320 (1862). One skin of this rare and little-known species from Duke-of-York Island. The original specimen, described by Cassin, was obtained in New Ireland, during the voyage of the U.S. North Pacific Exploring Expedition, under the command of Captain Rodgers. So far as I know, there are no examples of this Fruit-pigeon in any European collection. 49. CARPOPHAGA SPILORRHOA. Carpophaga luctuosa, Gould, B. Austr. v. pl. 60. Carpophaga spilorrhoa, Gray, P. Z. S. 1858, p. 186. One skin of this species. 50. PTILOPUS SUPERBUS, Gould, B. Austr. v. pl. 57. One male of this widely spread species. 51. PTILOPUS RIVOLII. Columba rivolii, Knip et Prev. Pig. ii. pl. 57; Des Murs, Icon. Orn. pl. 4. |