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26. Macropygia ? spec. nov. 



Several Macropygiae, nntbrtunatel)' most immature, from Rossel, are not eas}- 

 to determiue. They seem to differ from the bird of Fergusson which has been 

 named M. cinereiceps, and which I called (Nov. Zool. III. p. 249) M. doreya 

 cinereiceps, in having the breast more distinctly barred with blackish slaty narrow 

 bars, and the wing longer. They differ from M. carteretia of New Britain in having 

 a barred breast, shorter wing, and ashy grey forehead and crown. The abdomen is 

 also darker. It is to this form, and not to M. carteretia, that the Sudest Island 

 specimen, which is mentioned in Nov. Zool. V. p. 532, belongs. See also my note 

 abont the New Hanover Macropijgia in the Appendix to Webster's Throuqh Neio 

 Guinea, p. 373. 



The Louisiade form is apparently nearer to M. cinereiceps than to M. 

 carteretia. 



27. Chalcophaps chrysocMora Gould. 

 Two nestlings found in February. 



2S. Caloenas nicobarica (L.). 

 Three skins. 



29. Megapodius macgillivrayi Gray. 



There are three skins from Rossel Island of this Megajjode, which has first been 

 described from the Louisiade group. The iris is dark brown, the feet chrome- 

 yellow, or " lemon-chrome," the bill brown. The expression in the Cat. B. Brit. 

 Mus. XXII. p. 447, in the " Key to the Species " of the genus Megapodius, that 

 the flanks are blackish grey, is not correct, for they are really of a very deep 

 chestnut-brown. The species is a very good one. 



30. Charadrius dominicus fulvus 6m. 

 Common in February. 



31. Ochthodromus geoflfroyi (Wagl.). 

 Common from the end of January to the beginning of March. 



32. Ochthodromus mongolus (Pall.). 

 Common during the whole of February. 



