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Show 1879.] DUKE-OF-YORK ISLAND AND NEW BRITAIN. 13 a whitish-rusty ground-colour, more tinged with rusty on the lower throat and under tail-coverts, with distinct black cross bands much narrower than the white interspaces. Bill in both sexes greyish horn-yellow, with base of upper jaw dark. 27. SCYTHROPS NOV.E-HOLLANDI.E, Lath. Native name Guloko, Hiibner. Male and female. Not recorded by Dr. Sclater. 28. (EDIRHINUS INSOLITUS, Schleg.; Scl. I.e. p. 110. QZdirhinus globifer, Cab. et Rchnw. Journ. f. Ornithol. 1877, tab. iv. Native name Tambun, Hiibner. Male and female of this remarkable Pigeon, both alike, and with the curious Carpophaga-like knob on front; the male has the chin tinged faintly with bluish green. 29. CARPOPHAGA RHODINOL#:MA, Scl.* (?) Native name Gurekambu, Hiibner. Male and female, precisely alike. Dr. Sclater enumerates from Duke-of-York Island C. van-wyckii, Cass. The only description of it (Proc. Acad. Sci. Philad. xiv. 1862, p. 320) I cannot refer to, this periodical being wanting in our library. In leaving it open whether the specimens before m e belong to this species or not, I find, however, that they agree very well with the above-named species, originally described by Dr. Sclater from the Admiralty Islands (P. Z. S. 1877, p. 555). The specimens are mostly near allied to C. pacifica ; but the head, neck, and underparts are grey, only the sides of head, chin, and throat washed with rosy or vinous ; a ring round the eye white, as pointed out in Dr. Sclater's description. Wings in male 9" 5'", in female 8" 9'". 30. CARPOPHAGA RUBRICERA, Bp. ; Scl. I.e. p. 109. Native name Gure, Hiibner. Male and female ; both alike. 31. MACROPYGIA DOREYA, Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 57. 1M. carteretia, Scl. 1. c. p. 111. Native name Tokuo, Hiibner. One old male, in bad condition, which I refer to this dark-billed species, and not to M. carteretia, Bp., as in that the bill is said to be yellow. M. nigrirostris, Salvad., which Dr. Sclater also enumerates among the birds of Duke-of-York Island, seems, according to his measurements, considerably smaller. 32. CHALCOPHAPS STEPHANI, Puch.; Scl. I. c. p. 111. Native name Nauvat, Hiibner. Male and female, differing as noticed by Dr. Sclater. * See remarks by Mr. Sclater, March -1th, infra. |