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Show 552 MISS E. M . S H A R P E O N [June 17, Kumaon to Darjiling and Upper Assam, probably breeding throughout the whole of this range. Mr. Thompson states that they are found from the Sardah to the Ganges, but particularly abound in tho Kotree Doon. The species is also found in summer in Eastern Siberia and Northern China, and it appears to winter in Southern Tenasserim and the Malayan Peninsula, specimens being in the H u m e Collection from Copah, Malacca, Pulo Seban, and the native State of Kuroo near Malacca. It is probably this species which Jerdon believed to winter in Central India. Habits, SfC. Arrives, according to Mr. Thompson, in the Terai below Kumaon in April, breeding in M a y and finally leaving the forests in July and August. They breed in the loftiest sal trees in holes in the higher branches (never less than 50 feet from the ground), and they are confined to the sal forests. Although this species has never yet been described and its differences from E. orientalis pointed out, I have thought it best to adopt Hodgson's name. This has before now been quoted, but only as a synonym of E. orientalis, which is the black-tailed bird. While on the subject of the Eastern Eurystomi, I may point out that the Roller of the Solomon Islands, usually identified with E. crassirostris, is a distinct species, entirely wanting the black tip to the culmen which is found in all the other Eurystomi. Although originally supposed to come from the Solomon Islands, there is no doubt that the type specimen of E. crassirostris came from N ew Ireland, like many other birds out of the same collection. I have not seen the type specimen recently, but it is distinctly described by Count Salvadori as having a black-tipped culmen, and I therefore call the allied bird from the Solomons EURYSTOMUS SOLOMONENSIS, sp. n. E. similis E. crassirostri, sed rostro omnino rubro, culmine minime nigro terminato distinguendus. Long. tot. 12'0, culm. 1-45, alee 7*7, caud. 5'2, tarsi 0'7. Hab. in insulis Solomonensibus. 9. O n a Collection of Lepidoptera made by M r . E d m u nd Reynolds on the Rivers Tocantins and Araguaya and in the Province of Goyaz, Brazil. By E M I L Y M A R Y SHARPE. (Communicated by R. BOWDLER SHARPE, F.Z.S.) [Received June 16, 1890.] (Plate XLVI.) It has seemed to me to be worth while that a record should be preserved of the collection of Butterflies made by Mr. Reynolds during his adventurous journey on the Araguaya. The collection was made with great care; and, as I believe that no naturalist has |