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Stephansort) and ten from Dampier Islaud. The wings of the Vulcan Island 

 specimens measure as follows : 



109, Illo, 112, 112, 113, 114, 115,116, 116, 118 mm. ; i.e. 109-118! 



Those from Stephansort, Konstantiuhafen and Takar measure : 



1(12, 102, 102, 103, 103, 103, 104, 104, 104, 104-.5, 107, 1U9 mm., i.e. 102-109 I 



The Dampier Island birds are exactly like those from north-eastern New 

 Gninea, viz. : 



102, 103, 103-.5, 104, 104, 105-.5, 107, 108 mm. ; i.n. 102-108 ! 



The examjiles from Vulcan Island are also generally larger, as is especially 

 shown by their beaks, the bill reaching up to 33 mm. from nostril to tip, while in 

 the Dampier Island examples it goes as far as 30", but is generally less. In 

 coloration there is no difference at all. Both the Dampier and Vnlcan Island birds 

 have paler heads than T. In/drocharis galafea, and the central rectrices have a great 

 deal of white at the base, the basal third or nearly half being white with a blue 

 shaft-line, which often does not reach the base ; they thus agree with T. lujilvocharis 

 meijeri, except that T. hydrocharis milcani is larger. 



The type of T. hydrocharis vulcani is an adult male shot on November 30 

 (No. 6324) ; in this the longest of the central rectrices is 312 mm. long, the other 298, 

 the base is white for about 11 cm., the white " flags " are about 38 mm. long. 



We have received 10 adult males and females, and 3 young birds from 

 Vulcan Island, collected in November and December 1913. (Nos. 6262, 6276, 6284, 

 6285, G305, 6309, 031 6, 6324, 6327, 6330, 6338, 6480, 6507.) 



29. Halcyon saurophaga Gould. 



Halcyon saurophaga Gould, Pi-oc. Zool. Soc. London, 1843 p. 1U3 (New Guinea) ; Nov. Zool. 1901, 

 p. 156. 



¥ ad., Vulcan Island, 15. xii. 1913. (No. 6437.) 



This specimen is somewhat small, even for a female, the wing measuring only 

 123 mm., but we have two similarly small examples from other localities. 



30. Caprimulgus macrourus Horsf. 



Antea, p. 33. 



(? ad., Vulcan Island, 27. xi. 1913. (No. 6294.) 



31. Monarcha chalybeocephalus manumudari subsp. nov. 



i. DiiFers from that of J/, ch, chalijbeoce.phalm in being larger, having a wider 

 and generally longer bill and a longer wing and tail, and in the somewhat more 

 greenish gloss of the plumage, which is chiefly noticeable in the crown and 

 breast. 



Differs from that of M. ch. lucida (cf. Nov. Zool. 1903, p. 458) only in the larger 

 size of wings and tail, and in the generally more greenish gloss. 



Looking at the series of Ijeantiful skins from Dampier and Vulcan Islands, side 

 by side, the larger size and more greenish sheen of the latter is at once obvious ; the 

 same can be said from comparison with the other males, though one of the Rook 

 Island examples is as greenish as manumudari, and the same may be said of two 

 of the Woodlark Island males, while four others are as pnrplish as typical chah/beo- 

 cephalus ; the large beak of the Woodlark examples has already been mentioned 

 in 1 903, but their wings are not a bit longer than in typical cJialybeocephalus. 



