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Show 1880.] MR. P. L. SCLATER ON A NEW CHRYSOTIS. 67 As regards the Collocalia left undetermined in my account of Mr. Brown's last collection (see P.Z.S. 1879, p. 447, sp. 12), Count Salvadori has kindly examined the specimen and favoured me with the subjoined remarks :- "Through the kindness of Mr. Tristram I have been able to examine the specimen from the Solomon Islands, attributed by him to C. linchi (Ibis, 1879, p. 438); and I find that it belongs to the group containing C.francisca (Gm.), with the upper parts dark, almost black, and with tbe underparts uniformly grey. Therefore most probably it does not belong to C. linchi, Horsf., which appertains to the Collocalia esculenta group. It seems to me that the Solomon- Island specimen belongs to C. fuciphaga (Thunb.)1. I can only notice that it has the upper parts blacker, and the underparts of a lighter and purer grey than Javan, Bornean, Amboina, and Kei-Islands specimens of C. fuciphaga. " A specimen from the Duke-of-York Island submitted to my examination by Mr. Sclater (Collocalia sp. inc., P. Z. S. 1879, p. 447), belongs to the same species as Mr. Tristram's specimen." February 17, 1880. Prof. W. H. Flower, F.R.S., President, in the Chair. The Secretary made the following report on the additions to the Society's Menagerie during January 1880 : - The total number of registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of January was 89, of which 57 were by presentation, 28 by purchase, 1 was received in exchange, and 3 on deposit. The total number of departures during the same period, by death and removals, was 81. The most noticeable additions during the month were:- 1. A Japanese Hawk-Eagle (Spizaetus orientalis)2, from Japan, being the first individual of this scarce bird of prey we have received. It was presented to us by our Corresponding Member, Harry Pryer, Esq., of Yokohama, and arrived, under the kind care of Mr. Maries, on January 6. 2. Two Blue-eyed Cockatoos (Cacatua ophthalmica), presented by the Rev. George Brown, C.M.Z.S., of Duke-of-York Island. This acquisition is of much interest, as the species was hitherto believed to be peculiar to the Solomon Islands. Mr. Brown, who transmitted these birds to Mr. Ramsay's care in Sydney in September 1877, along with a pair of the Eclectus (which unfortunately died at Sydney), tells me that this Cockatoo is found in New Britain, but not in N e w Ireland. I take this opportunity of exhibiting a drawing by Mr. Smit (Plate i "I cannot agree with Lord Walden, who (Ibis, 1874, p. 135) considers C. linchi, Horsf., to be the same as C. fuciphaga, Thunb." 2 Temm. et Schl. Fauna Japonica, Aves, p. 7, pl. m . Mr. Sharpe (Cat. B. i. p. 267) identifies this species with S. nipalensis of India; but I a m not quite sure that this identification is correct. |