( 375) 



The egg is of a glossless creamy white, covered with bright brick-red patches and 

 spots, which are larger and more frequent near the thick end, where they form au 

 irregular zone. Length 21 '5, greatest width 15-5 mm. 



10. Myiagra ferrocyanea Rams. 



A series of both sexes. The/emales fully confirm the distinctness of M.feminina 

 from Kulambangra, the male of which is not yet known. "Iris c? dark brown, feet 

 slaty black, bill blue with a black tip. ? , iris dark brown, feet slate-colour, bill 

 ^My blue." 



11. Rhipidura tricolor (Vieill.). 

 Four skins from Guadalcanar. 



12. Rhipidura cockerelli (Rams.). 



Two 7)iales and & female, April TJiil. IIm female is smaller, the wing 5 mm. 

 shorter, " Iris dark brown, feet slate-colour, bill black." 



13. Pachycephala astrolabi Bp. 



A beautiful series, agreeing with those from Florida. The variation of plumages 

 is wonderful. What are, apparently, adult females, look as follows : Upperside 

 rufous, olive towards the rump. Rectrices greenish olive with rufous borders. 

 Wings outwardly cinnamon. Underside white, washed with grey laterally, a 

 cinnamon collar round the jugulum, throat whitish with a cinnamon wash. Under 

 tail-coverts yellow. A much younger female is more rufous below. Immature 

 ■males are somewhat similar, but much more greenish above ; underside yellow with 

 dark greyish centres to the feathers, a cinnamon-rufous collar across the jugulum, 

 and the rectrices partly olive, partly black with olive tips and edges. Others are 

 like the last ones, but washed with cinnamon over the whole throat and sides of 

 body, while the tail is still greenish olive. 



14. Calornis fulvipennis Hombr. & Jacn. 



Half a dozen from Guadalcanar. " Iris red ; feet and bill black." The 

 majority of the skins from Kulambangra and Florida (anfi>'i, p. 184) are larger than 

 those from Guadalcanar, but this is not sufficient to separate them. 



15. Calornis metallica (Temm.). 

 A series. 



16. Calornis cantoroides Gray. 



1 c? Guadalcanar 25. iv. lOii]. "Iris vermilion." 



17. Mino kreffti Scl. 

 (? ? ? . " Iris bright yellow, bill and feet orange." 



18. Macrocorax woodfordi Grant. 



A fine series, collected in April and Blay. " Iris dirty white (in two specimens, 

 however, marked as light ashy blue), feet black, bill whitish with a purplish or 

 pinkish tiut, tip black." Wings 270, 27.5 and 280 ram. The sexes are perfectly 

 alike, unless the females (Pcorregtly sexed) are a little smaller, 



