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Show 724 DR. o. FINSCH O N T H E [Nov. 6, "Shot July 20; eyes black. These birds were in considerable numbers near the houses of the natives."-/. M. No. 23. Tongatabu. Female. 24. „ Male. 27. „ Female. 28. „ Male. " Shot July 21. No. 27 (female) has a pure white superciliary stripe ; in the other specimens this is washed more or less with cinnamon-rusty, very strongly and broadly in No. 4 (female). Nos. 2, 3, and 4 show narrow rusty margins to the upper wing-coverts, which seem not peculiar to the young birds. That both sexes are precisely alike, I can state from dissection of specimens in alcohol. Generally Tonga specimens show a more greenish tinge on the back; but in some specimens (as 5, male, 23, female, and 24, male) the blue is as dark and pronounced as in Fiji specimens, and in some of the latter (as 95, male and 61, male) as greenish as in Tonga specimens. The under wing-coverts and sides in the Tonga bird are mostly pure white; but Nos. 3 and 4 show a rusty tinge. 3. PTILOTIS CARUNCULATA (Gm.). Ptilotis carunculata, F. & H. Ornith. Central-Polyn. p. 58; P. 1869, p. 545 (Tonga); Journ. f. Orn. 1870, p. 125 (Tonga); Graffe, ib. p. 404 (habits); Layard, P. Z. S. 1876, p. 501 (Tonga). No. 12. Tongatabu. Male. 13. „ Male. 14. „ Female. 15. „ Female. "Shot July 20. These are the most abundant birds on the island. They have a very clear bell-like note. Eyes black ; wattle yellow."-J". M. 4. LALAGE MACULOSA (Peale). Colluricincla maculosa, Peale, U.S. Expl. Exped. 1st edit. (1848), p. 81, pl. 23. f. 10. Lalage terat, Cass, (nee Bodd.), ibid. 2nd edit. (1858), p. 143; F. & H. Ornith. Central-Polyn. p. 80; P. Z. S. 1869, p. 546 (Tonga); Journ. f. Orn. 1870, p. 149 (Tonga); Finsch, ibid. 1872, p. 41 (Samoa) ; Layard, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 433 (Fiji), 1876, p. 494 (Navigators') and p. 502 (Tonga). Campephaga maculosa, Gray, Hand-1. i. p. 339. no. 5124. No. 16. Tongatabu. Male. 17. „ Male. " Eyes white. Common on the island ; shot July 20." No. 29. Tongatabu. Female. " Shot July 21." 32. ,, Male. |