( 165 ) 



28. Halcyon chloris chloris (Bodd.)- 

 Cf. Nov. Zool. 1904. p. 197. 



4 <?? ad., Sermatta, June 1906 (Nos. 57-60). 



29. Halcyon sancta Vig. & Horsf. 

 Cf. Nov. Zool. 1906. p. 295. 



3 (f (?, Sermatta, June 1906 (Nos. 61-63). 



30. Halcyon macleayii Jard. & Selby. 



Halcyon macleayii Jard. & Selby, III. Oni. pi. 101 (1825-39 : no locality stated). 



2 c?<?, Sermatta, 14 June 1906 (Nos. 64, 65). 

 " Iris coffee-brown, feet slate, bill black." 



These skius show apparently no ditference from a large series from Australia, 

 New Guinea, etc. (cf. Nov. Zool. viii. p. 153). 



New to the fauna of the Sooth- West Islands. 



31. Chrysococcyx rufomerus Hart. 



Cf. Nov. Zool. 1904. p. 199. 



? , Sermatta, 18 June 1906 (No. 66). 

 " Iris coflfee-brown, feet slate, bill black." 



32. Merops ornatus Lath. 



Cf. Nov. Zool. 1904. p. 202. 



5c??, Sermatta, June 1906 (Nos. 67-71). 



33. Gerygone dorsalis fulvescens A. B. Meyer. 



Gerygone Icissereusis Finsch, Notes Leyden Mu.-i. xx. p. 133 (1898). 

 Gerygone dorsalis fulvescens Hartert, Nov. Zool. 1906. p. 297. 



2 c?c? ad., 2 a jnv., Sermatta, June 1906 (Nos. 72-75). 

 " Iris brick-red, feet grey, bill black." 



These birds entirely agree with a large series from Kisser, Moa, Letti, and 

 Babber. 



34. Rhipidura setosa hoedti Buttik. 



Rhipidura setosa hiittlkoferi Hartert, Noi\ Zool. 1904. p. 206 (Letti) 

 Rhipidura hoedti Buttikofer, Notes Leydeu .1/«s. xiv. p. 93 (Letti, 1893). 

 Rhipidura biittikoferi Finsch, Ibid. xxii. p. 256 (Letti). 



?, Sermatta, 19 June 1906 (No. 76). 



This specimen is in perfectly fresh jilumage and agrees with eleven skins 

 from Moa and Letti in having the abdomen paler than in the birds from Dammer 

 (typical locality for biittikoferi) and Roma. It must therefore be separated under 

 the name of hoedti. That this difference is not seasonal, as had been supposed 

 by Dr. Finsch, is clearly shown by examples from Dammer and Letti which were 

 collected in the same month as the one from Sermatta. 



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