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Show 554 MR. P. L. SCLATER ON THE BIRDS [Julie 19, the plumage is mixed with cinereous, the feet not so dark, under surface of the wings more white. But the size alone is sufficient to distinguish it from its Papuan representative. 7. CALORNIS, sp. inc.1 463, male; 464, male; 465, male; 466, female; 467, female. " Eves orange : stomachs contained seeds and grubs., "This was, perhaps, the commonest bird at the Admiralty Islands."-J. M. Lord Tweeddale, who has kindly examined these skins for me, writes as follows :-" Nos. 463-466. The purple reflexions being restricted to the head, chin, and throat distinguishes these examples from all others known to me. They may belong to either C. viri-descens, Gray, C. gularis, Gray, or C. amboinensis, Gray; for I not possess typical examples, but I believe that all these are little more than stages of C. metallica. If they do not fall under either of these three titles, I think they may be safely described and named ; for their distinctive characters are well marked. "No. 467. This belongs to a distinct species, very close to C. cantoroides, Gray." The question of the different subspecies of Calornis, which has been ably treated of by Lord Tweeddale and Mr. Sharpe, is one that, in the absence of a large series for comparison, I should fear to venture on. As regards specimen no. 467, there may perhaps have been an error in the label, and the bird may have been obtained elsewhere. 8. HALCYON SAUROPHAGA, Gould. Two examples (498, 499), agreeing with other specimens of this species in every respect. " Shot on D'Entrecasteau Island, one by Capt. Thomson. Eyes brown; bill and feet dark; base of lower mandible flesh-coloured or white."-J. M. 9. TRICHOGLOSSUS CYANOGRAMMUS, Wagler; Finsch, Papag. ii. p. 830. Ten skins of this fine species (449-456, males; and 457,458, females) are in the collection. The breast is of a brighter red than in an example of the same bird from Humboldt Bay, New Guinea, and the purplish edgings of the breast-feathers are wider. There is also more brown on the nape in some of the skins. " Eyes orange ; bill and feet black : seeds generally in stomachs." - J. M. 10. HALIAETUS LEUCOGASTER, Gm.; Sharpe, Cat. i. p. 307. "Female (no. 478, from Maclear Island): eyes brown; cere black ; bill horn-colour ; claws black ; legs flesh-colour : in stomach a Starling (Calornisl) and remains of a Tern."-J. M. 11. PANDION HALIAETUS. "Male (no. 479) shot on D'Entrecasteau Island: stomach had fish."-J. M. 1 Cf. Walden, Trans. Zool. Soc. viii. p. 79, et Sharpe, Ibis, 1876, p. 46. |