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104, 104, 104, 105, 105, 105, 106, 10(3, 106, 106, 106, 108, 109, 109, 110 mm., as 

 against 107-113 in T. h. galatea; a skin from Waigiu has the wing even 117 mm. 

 long, but another from the same island has it barely 110 mm. The crown and 

 shoulder-patch in microrhyncha is of the same darker, more bluish colour as in 

 galatea, not paler as in meyeri and vulcani. In one of our specimens of microrhyncha 

 the longest tail-feather has the enormons length of 362 mm. 



28. Alcyone azurea lessonii Cass. 



Alcyone Lessonii Cassia, Proc. Acail. Philadelphia, v. 1850-1851, p. 69 (1852 — Dorey, Dutch 

 New Guinea). 



Most of the specimens from Darapier Island are rather pale on the underside. 

 The wings are in both sexes 72'6-76 mm., and there is no difference between the 

 sexes. Size and colour of underside very variable. 



We have received 9 adult males and females, collected from February 1 to 

 March 3, 1914 (Nos. 6.520, 6549, 6691, 6692, 6712, 6713, 6743, 6762, 6766). 



29. Ceyx solitaria solitaria Temm. 



Ceyx solitaria Temminck, PI. Col. 595, fig. 2 (1836 — Lobo Bay, New Guinea, collected by 

 Salomo Miiller). 



7 c? ?, Darapier Island, February 14 to March 11, 1914 (Nos. 666.5, 6699, 

 6706, 6761, 6798, 6785, 6799). "Iris dark brown; bill black (some, apparently 

 less aged, with a pale tip) ; feet reddish yellow." 



These birds appear to be inseparable from the true solitaria. The wings 

 measure 55-59 mm. 



It seems that there are two ill-defined races in New Guinea : one, a slightly 

 larger one, in the western parts and along the north coast to Simbang in German 

 New Guinea, with the wing 55, or generally 56 to 59'5 mm. ; another, slightly 

 smaller one, in British New Guinea and Fergusson Island, with the wing 52 to 54, 

 seldom 55, and once 56'5 mm. (See also Bull. B. 0. Cltih, xxxv. p. 24). 



We should like to postpone the naming of the smaller race until we have still 

 better series, though many forms have been based on similar material and similar 

 diflerences in size only. 



30. Halcyon sancta (Vig. & Horsf ). 



Halcijoii .•iaiictus Vigors and HorsSeld, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, xv. p. 206 (1827 — Australia ; 

 evidently New South Wales ; cf. Mathews, List B. Austr., p. 149). 



2 t? <?, 2 ? ?, Dampier Island, end of February and March 1914 (Nos. 6748, 

 6759, 6763, 6804). 



31. Eurystomus orientalis crassirostris Scl. 



Eurystomus crassirostris Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1869, p. 121 (Solomon Islands). 



1 cJ, 2 ? ?, Dampier Island, February and March 1914 (Nos. 6697, 6734, 

 6778). 



32. Caprimulgus macrourus Horsf. 



Caprimulgus macrourus Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Hoc. London, xiii. p. 142 (1821 — Java). 



c? (moulting), Dampier Island, 5. iii. 1914 (No. 6779). 



We have, so far, not been able to separate the Papuan birds from typical 

 maci-ouncs. 



