REPORT ON THE BIRDS — TONGA, THE FIJIS, API, AND TAHITI. 



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Valuable notices on the habits of this species as observed by Mr Th. Kleinschmidt, 

 are published in the Journ. Mus. Godeffr., Heft xii. p. 13, 1876. 



12. Ptilotis provocator, Layard (PI. XIII.). 



Ptilotis provocator, Layard, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1875, p. 28; FLnsch, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1877 



p. 733. 

 Ptilotis xanthophrys, Finsch, Journ. Mus. Godeffr., Heft. xii. p. 5, 1876. 



[No. 65. Kandavu. Male. Eyes brown. July 25. (Specimen figured, PL XIII. 

 fig. 1.) 



No. 66. „ Female. 



No. 67. „ Male. 



No. 68. „ Male. 



No. 83. „ Male. 



No. 84. „ Female. (Specimen figured, PI. XIII. fig. 2.) 



Eyes brown ; legs a greenish tinge ; bill black. Stomach contained ants, spiders, 

 grasshoppers. 



No. 106. Kandavu. Female. Shot August 6. 



No. 111. ,, Male. Eyes brown ; bill black ; legs a greenish tinge.] 



The specimen which I described as Ptilotis xanthophrys was labelled "Navigators';" 

 but this was a mistake, as this bird, which must bear Mr Layard's previous name, is 

 confined to the Fijis. 



This is a well-marked, excellent species, always characterised by the yellow patch 

 surrounding the eye, extending to the ear-region. Even the young bird (No. 84, see 

 PI. XIII. fig. 2) shows this character, but differs otherwise in being underneath strongly 

 tinged with olive-yellow, showing no whitish shafts, which form such conspicuous strise 



