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occasion pointed ont that the characters of the two species are reversed in the 

 Cat. B. Brit. Mus. v. XVI. pp. 196-S, both in the " Key " and in the description. 

 " Iris dark brown, feet and bill orange." 



'-io. Dacelo leachei Vig. & Horsf. 



" Iris silvery white, feet horu-colour, maxilla blackish, mandible whitish horn- 

 colour." 



Two males from Cape York seem to belong undoubtedly to B. leachei leachei, 

 and not to cei-vina. 



26. Ptistes erythropterus coccineopterus J. Gould. 



The very short wing shows the single specimen to iM'long to the subspecies 

 cocci neoptenis Gould. " Iris brown, feet black, bill red with pale cadmium tip." 



27. Trichoglossus novaehollandiae (Gm.). 



Several skins from ('ai)e York are rather small and brightly coloured, and may 

 belong to a northern subspecies. 



28. Gkophaps scripta (Temm.). 



One male, iris brown, bill blackish, feet dark purple. This bird agrees in 

 coloration with scripta, but the wing is only 14il mm. 



ON MYZOMELA EVBBOCUCTJLLATA Tristr. 



By ERNST HARTERT. 



rr^HIS bird is described in Ihis 1889, p. 228, as having been found on St. Aignan. 

 J- The head all round (except the lores, which are black) and a broad line along 

 all the upjier parts to the upper tail-coverts scarlet, remainder of the plumage black, 

 inner edges of the remiges greyish white. Bill black, feet dark brown. Wing "4 

 (2-86, as given by Tristram, is too short, it should be 21)5), tail .3:5 mm. I am 

 indebted to the authorities of the Liverpool Museum for the loan of the type of this 

 most interesting sj)ecies. No such bird, however, was found by Meek on St. Aignan, 

 or on any of the other islands of the Louisiade Archii)elaga I cannot help suspecting 

 that M. rubrocucullata Tristr. really came from one of the Solomons and not from 

 St. Aignan, where it would seem to be more ont of its way than in the Solomons. 

 It is hardly to be expected that a collector like Meek should have missed such 

 a very conspicuous bird. There is no original collector's label on the type of 

 M. rubrocucullata Tristr. 



In the " List of the Birds from St. Aignan," anted, p. 20(3, the mention of 

 this species is omitted. 



