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localities. The Arn Island birds are also rather large (J wing 263 — 2(39). and 1 

 believe tliey cau stand as a subspecies. Cf. Gra.v, P. Z. S. lSo8, p. 182; Salvador!, 

 Orn. Papuas. I. p. 201. 



Specimens from the Solomon Islands seem smallest of all, next coming 

 those from Fcrgnsson, New Ireland, and New Britain. E. H. 



31. I'tilopuis aurantiifrons Gray. — 32. I't. wallacei Gray. — 33. Ft. saperbus 

 (Temm. & Kuip). — 34. Ft. iozonus Gray. " Iris yellow." — 35. Ft. coronulatus 

 Gray. " Iris orange." — 36. Mt/ri.tticiKoi'a ///color (Scop.). — 37. Car pophaga zoeac 

 (Less.). "Iris .straw-colour." — 38. C. pino/i (Q. & G.). '■ Iris red; feet coral-red; 

 bill gre3ish ; naked space round eye red." — 39. Chalcopkaps stephani lichb. 

 Hitherto, I believe, only doubtfully known from the Aru Islands. E. H. 



4ii. Macropygia sp. 



There are before ns four skins of a iJi/cropygin from Dobbo and Wannambai. 

 According to Salvadori's Catalogue of the Pigeons iu the British Museum tliey 

 would belong to J/, doi-et/a Bp., and Salvadori has identified the Aru specimens that 

 came before him with the latter species. To us they seem to agree much better 

 with J/, batch/anensis, and to be merely a form of that species with a less rufous chin 

 and longer wings. The wings of the adult t/iales measure 173 — 175 mm. From 

 all we can see at present we must conclude that our Aru specimens differ from 

 M. doreya typica and that they are nearer to 3/. batchianensis ; further that M. 

 doreya, M. c/nereici'ps, M. f/rinein/fc/ia, J/, batrkianensis, and M. qoldiei are more or 

 less connected by intermediate specimens and merely subsj)ecies of one and the 

 same species, but that a large material with exact localities will be necessary 

 before one can come to definite conclusions about them. 



W. R. & E. H. 



41. Baza rei/iicardti Miill. & Schleg. — 42. ilaliastur girre/iera Vieill.— 

 43. Nycticorax caledonicus (Gm.). 



