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They are creamy white, heavily blotclied and spotted with purplish brown and 

 bluisli grey. 



Measurements: 31-9: 24-5 mm. E. H. 



31. Collocalia fucipliaga ('I'liunb.), 

 P'ergus.son and Kiriwiua, Trobriands. Wings 110 — IIV lam. E. H. 



32. Collocalia esculenta (L.). 



Kiriwina and Woodlark. Wings in specimens from the former island it.') — lOfi 

 mm., in those from the latter 101 — 103 mm. E. H. 



33. Podargus intermedius Hartert. 



In the December meeting of the Brit. Orn. Club I described this interesting 

 new form, of which !Mr. jMeek sent a small series from Fergusson and Kiriwina, 

 Trobriand group. These liirds are represented in grey and rufous phases, the latter 

 being sexed as females, the former as niales. The iris is described on the various 

 labels as " brick-red," dull red, and hazel. Nests with one egg each were found in 

 November and December on Fergusscm Island, and a young bird was found there in 

 January. The nests are curiously tiny structures, resting on the branches. They 

 are of a somewhat triangular form, measuring only about 4 to 5i inches across. They 

 are composed of only a few pieces of vines, twigs, and grass, loosely put together, and 

 one can easily read through them if held over a book. They are much less of a nest 

 than that of a turtle-dove. The eggs are dead white, equally rounded on both ends, 

 rather thin and fragile, and measure 39-4 : 27-6 and 40-3 : 28-6 mm. When held 

 against the light they shine through greenish yellow. Both sexes seem to breed, as 

 both were shot from the nests. The nestling was evidently not hatched long before it 

 was found, but the rectrices, wing-feathers, and scapulars, as well as some feathers of 

 the spinal and pectoral tracts, begin already to show. The little thing is sparsdy 

 covered with whitish downy feathers, the back, sides of body, and abdomen being very 

 thinly covered. The nostrils stand out rather tubular. The stomach is full of insect- 

 remains. E. II. 



34. Eurystomus australis i^w. and 3'). E. crassirostris Scl. 



Both these rollers were shot on Fergusson Island. The iris of both species is 

 described as "hazel." 



30. Scythrops novaehollaiidiae Lath. 



Both sexes, Kiriwiua, Trobriand Islands. "Iris red." One of the two sent 



is marked <?, the other ?. In the latter the bill is more than 1 cm. longer than in 

 the one marked S, and flip wing is 3 cm. longer as well ! E. II. 



37. Cacomantis iusperatus ((iould). 

 Fergusson Island. " Iris hazel." 



38. Ceutropus nigricans t^alvad. 

 Fergusson Island. " Iris red." 



