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25. Mouarcha guttula (Garn.). 

 Fergusson Island. Iris dark hazel. The sexes alike. The N-ouiig bird agrees 

 with Salvadori's description (Om. Papuas. II. p. 22), but the breast is washed with pale 

 cinnamon. The wing-coverts are without any white spots, which only appear as tiie 

 birds get older. Nests were found in December. They are firmly fixed in a corner 

 formed of three or four twigs, and are deep cups, built entirely of green moss, but 

 lined inside with black rootlets and human hair. Outside height about 100 mm. ; 

 width across on top 70 — 80. The two eggs are of a dark cream-colour, thickly spotted 

 and .speckled with pale and dark rufous and with some deeper-lying greyish spots. 

 They measure 22-.5 : 16'1 and 22 : 1.5-9 mm. E. H. 



26. Monarcha chalybeocephalus (Garn.). 



Fergusson, Trobriand, and Wood lark Islands. " Iris black ; feet brownish black ; 

 beak slate-colour." One female from the Trobriands has the chin metallic greenish 

 black, while another from the same place has no sign of a dark cliin. 



Nests were found on Fergusson Island from October to December. They are 

 either built of moss lined inside with dark rootlets, much like that of M. gidtvla, and 

 outside ornamented with white pieces of a very tough and close cobweb, or without 

 moss, of rootlets, twigs, etc., ornamented outside with lichens, gi-eenish or grey 

 bark, cobwebs, etc. They are mostly fixed firmly in a fork of a branch, or riding on 

 some twigs. 



The eggs have no similarity whatever with those of M. giMula, being greenish 

 white and with a loose ring of brown and grey spots near the tliicker end, altogether 

 much re.iiembling small eggs of the corresponding variety of Lanius coUurio. The 

 clutches consist of three eggs each. They measure 211 : 1.), 21-3 : 10, 21 : 15-3, 

 21: lo-fi, 21-9: 15-3 mm. " K. H. 



27. Monarcha aruensis Salvad. 



Fergusson. These birds agree entirely with skins from Nicura and .Mailn in 

 British New Guinea. They are easily distinguishable from M. melanonola from 

 Dutch New Guinea by their smaller bill, and are also well distinguishable from M. 

 chrysomelas of New Ireland, while M. km'densis Meyer is quite a different liird. 



E. H. 



28. Edoliosoma miilleri Salvad. 



Two males and a. female from Fergusson Island. The iris in both sexes " hazel." 

 The male of this species hardly differs from thai of E. ienuirostre except in the 

 greater massiveness of the bill. The female differs more, according to Sahadori. 



K. II. 



29. Lalage karu (Less.). 

 Fergusson Island. Iris in both sexes " hazel." 



30. Pitta finschi Rams. (?). 



.■\ third skin from Fergusson Island agrees perfectly with the two described Nov 

 ZooL. II. p. Gl. I have nothing to add about the birds to what I said there. 

 Two eggs were found on October 16th, 1894. 



