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Show 1877.] BIRDS FROM EUA, FRIENDLY GROUP. 773 This species has been observed also by Mr. Hiibner in the Hapai group and on Vavao. ' 4. EUDYNAMIS TAITIENSIS. Eudynamis taitiensis (Sparrm.). Native names Kaliva (Hiibner), Haleva (Graffe). One male in the spotted dress of the young bird from Eua (August 18/6) This is the first specimen of this bird I have examined from the Friendly group; its occurrence there has been stated already by G. R. Gray and Dr. Graffe. 5. HALCYON SACRA (Gm.). Native name Gikota (Hiibner, Graffe). Five specimens. The remarks given, Journ. f. Ornith. 1870 p 124, are also applicable to the series before me. Generally the specimens with a tawny-coloured eye-stripe (running round the nape) show also narrow edgings of the same colour on the upper wing-coverts ; but these are sometimes also present in white-eye-stnped specimens. J This species occurs also in the Hapai group (Hiibner, in litt.). 6. PTILOTIS CARUNCULATA. Ptilotis carunculata, (Gm.); F. & Hartl. P.Z. S. 1869 p 545- nd. Journ f. Orn. 1870, p. 125; Graffe, ib. p. 401 (habits),' Layard, P.Z. S. 1876, pp. 491 et 501. Native names Fuleheu (Hiibner, Graffe); Fule-haio (Layard). Three specimens from Eua, agreeing exactly with others from the Navigators' and Viti. Of the latter I have before me two specimens from Matuka, collected during the ' Challenger' Expedition. (See above, p. 732.) 7. COLLURICINCLA HEINEI. Myiolestes heinei, F. & H., P. Z. S. 1869, p. 546, et Journ. f Ornith. 1870, p. 126, t. iv. Native name Fuiva (Hiibner, Graffe). Two specimens from Eua, exactly like those from Tongatabu and Vavao. " This species is common and lives in the brush " (Hiibner). As it appears that the genus Myiolestes of Cabanis (Mus. Hein. p. 67) was based on Muscicapa obscura, Horsf. (= hirundinacea, Temm. Pl. Col. 119), from Java, a bird which is quite different generically, this Polynesian bird may be placed in the genus Colluricincla, from which it, in my opinion, does not differ generically. 8. LALAGE MACULOSA (Peale); Finsch, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 724. L. terat, Layard, P. Z. S. 1876, p. 502. Native names Gikiviu (Hiibner) ; Singiviu (Layard). Two specimens from Eua. One of them, nearly in full plumage, |