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24. Eurystomus crassirostris Scl. 

 Both sexes iu good plumage. 



25. Merops omatus Lath. 

 Common. In good phimage by the end of Angust. 



20. Halcyon saurophaga fiould. 



Evidently common on St. Aiguan Island. '• Iris brown, feet dark slate-colour, 

 bill black, whitish at the base of the mandible." 



Eggs were found on December 5th. They are short oval, white, with very little 

 gloss, and measure 27 by 2:3 and 28-5 by 23 mm. 



27. Halcyon sordida colonus Hart. 



There is a very fine series of this bird from St. Aignan. It had also been 

 received from Rossel Island {anted,, p. 81). 



There is a great amonnt of variation in this subspecies. The male is above less 

 greenish olive and more bluish green, the wings are more bine outside, and the bill 

 generally, but not always, larger. A young male has a very short bill, narrow black 

 edges to the tips of the feathers on the sides of the chest, the frontal feathers 

 margined with rusty buff, the loral patch and the collar rusty bnfF, some of the 

 win^-coverts tipped with buff, the under wing-coverts, sides of the breast and of 

 the abdomen tinged with buff. '\\'iug in males 89—93, in females 86—93 mm. 

 " The iris is dark brown, the feet dark slate-colour, the bill black, whitish towards 

 the base of the mandible." 



28. Halcyon sancta Vig. & Hnrsf. 

 Common on St. Aignan. 



29. Halcyon macleayi Jard. & Selby. 

 Common on St. Aignan. 



3n. Alcedo ispida moluccana Less. 

 Common on St. Aiguan. (See Nov. Zool. V. ji. 529, anted,, p. 81.) 



31. Urodynamis taitiensis (Sparrm). 



One male (?) was shot on St. Aignan on September lUth, 1897. " The iris is 

 dark yellow, feet black, bill brown." 



This occurrence extends the area of distribution of this species. 



32. Chrysococcyx plagosus (Lath.). 



One. female, ^t. Aignan, August 28th, 1897. "Iris light hazel, foot and bill 



black." 



33. Nasiterna pusio Scl. 

 A fine series from St. Aignan, like those from Sudost. (Nov. Zool. V. p. 531.) 



