210 NOVITATKS ZOOLOGTCAE XXI. 1914. 



" Iris dark brown ; bill black, cere and base of lowur mandible yellow ; feet 

 radminm yellow." 



This hawk differs at a glance, from A. etorqite.^ etorqties by its mnch smaller 

 Bize, lighter npperside, and the colour of the iris, which is brown, and not yellow 

 as is the latter. From the various races inhabiting the Solomon Islands it differs 

 by the colour of the throat, which is pinkish bnft", with or without a greyish tinge, 

 while in the latter it is grey, sharply divided from the cinnamon-rnfoiis underside. 

 (Cf. A'ov. Zool. 1905, p. 251.) 



15. Haliastur Indus girrenera (Vieill.). 



Haliiielns Girrenera Tieillot & Oudart, Gul. (lis. i. pi. lU and p. 31 (partim) (1825 — India and 

 Australia. Restricted typical locality Australia. — Mr. Mathews rejected the name girrenera 

 as not being applicable to the Australian form, but we cannot agree to his ruling. Vieillot's 

 description is : " Corpore castaueo ; capite, collo et peotore albis ; remigibus primariis nigris 

 (senior). Capite, collo pectoreque albis, lincit longitudinali pennarum media fusea (adultus)." 

 On the plate is figured the Australian form with perfectly white breast, without black shaft- 

 lines. As the habitat are given India and Australia. It is thus quite clear that Vieillot con- 

 sidered the ludiun form with black shaft-stripes to be the less aged bird, the Australian one 

 (without black stripes) as the older one, and the latter is the one he described before the other. 

 Jloreover, under the plate, which depicts the Australian form, appears the name girrenera, 

 and Vieillot says : '' On le trouve aussi, selon Latham, h, la Nouvelle Hollande, oii il porte le 

 nom que nous lui avons conserve." We are, therefore, of opinion that the name girrenera 

 should be restricted to the Australian form, to which it has lieen applied for a long time, 

 and that there is no necessity at all for its alteration). 



6 ad., Rook Island, 5. viii. 11)13. (No. 5926, A. S. Meek ('oil.) 

 111. Lorius hypoenochrous devittatus Hart. 



Lorius hypoenochrons deritlaius Hartert, Nor. Zool. 1.S98. p. 530. (*' Low country of S.E. New 

 Guinea, Fergusson, Woodlurk, New Britain and New Ireland " ; type Fergusson Island). 



t? ad., Rook Island, 1. viii. 1913. (No 5890, A. S. Meek Coll.) 

 This male is a typical devittatus, while another specimen, ?, Rook Island, 

 1. viii. 1913 (No. 5892, A. S. Meek Coll.) has a distinct dull black bar across 

 the underside of the wing, thus more resembling L. h. hypoenochrous. This female 

 is apparently not fully adult, and in young specimens the blackish bar is often 

 indicated. (Cf. Xo€. Zool. 1898. p. 530,"l901. p. 06.) 



17. Eclectus pectoralis solomonensis Rothsch. & Hart. 



Edectns pecloralis solomonensis Rothschild and Hartert, \or. Zool. 1901. p. 82 (Solomon Islands ; 

 type Fauro). 



4 (?, 4 ? , Rook Island, July and August 1913. (Nos. 5727, 5765, 5766, 5830, 

 5867, 5871, 5891, 5917, A. S. Meek Coll.) 



In NoK. Zool. 1901. p. 82 we have enumerated specimens from New Britain 

 and New Ireland as E. pectoralis pectoralis, but we have little doubt now that a 

 series from those islands would show that they belonged to E. p. solomonensis, 

 We had, and have now, only one male collected on New Britain by Kubary, and a 

 female said to be from New Ireland (without original laliel, sent by a missionary 

 without knowledge of proper collecting). The latter specimen is rather large 

 (wing about 242 mm.) ; the male from New Britain has the wing 248 mm., which 

 is also a large measure for ''solomonensis" Single specimens from New Guinea, 

 however, approach sometimes the smaller solomonensis, and of course the latter 



