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Specimens from St. Aignan agree with those from other countries. Their bills 

 are certainly not smaller. 



Two eggs from St. Aiguan are creamy white, thickly covered with brownish red 

 spots and some deeper-lying mauve spots. They measure i2r6 by lo'S and 22 by 

 15-5 mm. (cf. Nov. Zool. III. p. 242). 



12. Rhipidura setosa nigromentalis Hart. 



Cf. Nov. Zool. V. p. 526. 



A good series from St. Aiguan bears out the characters mentioned I.e. An 

 immature specimen has rusty buff tips to the wing-coverts, feathers of the rump and 

 upper tail-coverts. 



13. Rhipidura louisiadensis Hart. 



Cf. antea, p. 78, where I described this new species from Rossel Island. A 

 series from St. Aignan agrees perfectly with the Rossel specimens. 



An egg belonging to this species agrees with those described above (p. 79), and 

 measures IT'S by 14 mm. 



14. Myiagra plumbea Vig. & Horsf. 



Evidently not rare on St. Aignan Island. The adult malra are giants, the 

 wing of one measuring 83 mm., that of the other 81 mm., while tliose of adult males 

 from Rossel Island have the wings only 73, 75, and 76 mm. in length. I find, 

 however, no differences between the Jemales from the two islands. 



16. Myiagra nupta Hart. 

 Myiagra nupta sp. nov. in Nov. ZooL. V. p. 526, Rossel Island. 



We have received three specimens of this new species from St. Aignan. Two 

 are adult males. They agree with the type, except that they are somewhat larger, 

 their wings measuring 90 and 91 mm., the tails 79 and 82 mm. The third is a young 

 male. It resembles the female (descr. I.e.), but the chest is darker, and some steel- 

 blue feathers make their appearance. 



10. Gerygone rosseliana onerosa subsp. nov. 



S ad. Upperside greenish olive, not so much greenish and more brown than iu 

 G. rosseliana rosseliana. Rectrices olive brown, crossed by a black bar, about 

 8 mm. iu width, and about 7 mm. from the tip. Hardly an indication of a lighter 

 spot on the tip of the inner web. Underside brownish buff, with an indication of a 

 yellow wash darker on the sides and chest, lightest on the middle of the abdomen, 

 almost white on the throat. " Bill black, feet dark brown, iris brown." Total length 

 of type (in skin) about llM, wing 58, tail 47, tarsus 18, exposed portion of culmen 

 11 mm. Besides the tyj)e there is one female, and another specimen marked 

 "male," but I am of ojiiuion that it is also & female. The vcsX female differs 

 from the male in being a shade paler above and smaller. It measures as follows : — 

 Wing 55, tail 43, bill 10 mm. The other specimen, which I consider to be also a 

 female, has the wing 55, tail 43, bill lU-3 mm. in length. 



This form dilfe rs from G. rosseliana rosseliana (antea, p. 79) in being larger, 

 almost without yellow below, where it is brownish, not yellow, and in being slightly 

 browner, not so greenish on the upperside. The two forms are evidently repre- 

 sentative subspecies. 



