(, 186 ) 



paler than the others from Knlambangra, the collar white, bnt it is more worn, and 

 the differences lietween it and the palest one from Knlambangra, and between the 

 darkest and j)alest from the latter island are about enual. 



:'>1. Halcyon leucopygia (Verr.). 

 Six from Florida. The female differs from the male only in the bine instead of 

 white lower back and rump. " Iris dark brown, feet blackish, Mil Muck." 



32. Alcyone richardsi Tristr. 

 c? ad. Knlambann:ra. 10. fi. lOUl. "Iris dark bmwn, feet and bill turkej-- 

 timber." Feet and bill ajiiiear black in skin. 



33. Ceyx lepida sacerdotis f?). 



Four skins, one marked as vm/c, three as faiutlcg, from Knlambangra, resemble 

 so closely the form Cei/x lepida uropt/ffialis from the Northern Moluccas (cf Hartert, 

 anteu, p. 97), that it is not easy to state any ditferences. All we can see is, that the 

 middle of the abdomen is more yellowish, somewhat lighter, the wing apparently 

 longer (being in all fonr about 64 to 05 mm. while in C. I. ^ivopi/ginlis 02 to 05 mm.), 

 and apparently the mantle less blue, more black, a feature not easily seen, as the 

 skins are of very different, very much finer make, than our series from the Northern 

 Moluccas. In any case this form is much nearer to C. 1. nropi/ffialis than the true 

 C. I. lepida from the Southern Moluccas, which can easily be distinguished from 

 uropygialis. 



This is probably the sacerdotis of Ramsay, originally described from New 

 Britain. Ramsay compared it with Ce>jx jdiilippiiicnsis, but Salvadori {Orn. Pap. 

 III., p. 592) has already remarked, that the description shows it to be closely allied 

 to ('. lepida, and that, in fact, from the description, one could not state how it 

 difl'ercd from the latter, though it would most likely be different. Dr. Sharpe {Cat. 

 Ji. XVII., p. 184) allowed it specific rank, but does not jioint out the differences from 

 lepida and i(rop>/(ii<ilis, which he united, while in the "key," on p. 173, he placed 

 sacerdotis in a wrong section, viz., tliat with black upper bill. The entire bill is red, 

 iris brown, feet orange. 



A series will be necessary to show if the New Britain bird is entirely the same 

 as onr supposed sacerdotis from the Solomons. 



34. Trichoglossus haematodus massena Bp. 



(Cf. aritea, p. 70, also p. OS.) 



Four .skins from Knlambangra. They all sliow the yellowish green nuchal 

 collar interrupted in the middle (cf. note in Finsch's " Papageien "). None of 

 them seem to be very adult individuals. More material must be at hand to decide 

 if the interrupted collar is a local iieculiarity or not. 



Mr. Eiehhorn marks the iris as "light red, feet light greenish slate, bill 

 dirty red." 



35. Eos cardinalis (G. R. Gray). 

 Florida and Knlambangra. Siiecimens from these two islands do not in any 

 way differ from eai^h other. " Iris liriirht red, in less mature birds light brown ; 

 bill dark red ; feet dull black," 



