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and having compared them with the oue example from the hitter ishiiid in the 

 British Museum, and the skin from the original locality (New Britain) in the 

 same Museum, we have found out that the females (or younger birds ?) of the 

 Solomons form have the upper bill blackish, adult males, however, having the 

 entire bill orange-red, and that these birds are not true sacerdotis. The feathers 

 of the pileum have, in sacerdotis, subterminal light nltramarine-blue bars, while in 

 collectoris they have subterminal ultramarine tiiu/ spots of a somewhat triangular 

 shape. The skin of sacerdotis in the British Museum is also of a paler orange 

 below, thus agreeing perfectly with the original description of sacerdotis, and the 

 wing is about 3 or 4 mm. longer. The two specimens from Guadalcanar have 

 the upper bill blackish, the lower bill dirty orange. Both are marked a.f> females. 

 All the four Knlambangra birds have the entire upper and lower bill orange-red, 

 and all four are probably adult males, though one is marked as s, female. The two 

 black-billed specimeus have the wings 0<i and 61 mm. long, the four red-billed ones 

 04 and 65 mm. The two black-billed birds have no apparent signs of immaturity. 



27. Halcyon leucopygia (V^err.). 



Fine series. Young birds of both se.xes have the chest, breast, and abdomen 

 more or less cinnamon, and whitish edges to the upper wing-coverts. Adult birds 

 shot in Ajjril and May are in beautiful plumage ; », female collected iu August by 

 Mr. Woodford is in moult. " Solomon Islands " is the original locality given 

 by its author for this fine species. 



28. Halcyon tristrami Layard. 



Ibis, 1880, p. 460, ]il. 15 (Sau (Jhristoval). 



One adult bird, laajVeA. female, with the chest, under wing-coverts, sides of 

 body and nuchal collar rusty, throat and middle of abdomen pure white. {Anted, 

 p. 185.) 



29. Halcyon saurophaga Gould. 



P. Z. S. 1843, p. 103 (New Guinea). 



One female, agreeing with New Guinea specimens. 



30. Halcyon sancta Vig. & Horsf 



Two somewhat worn and moulting individuals shot towards the end of April, 

 and agreeing with specimens from the original locality ("Australia"). 



31. Alcedo ispida ispidoides Less. 



cJ ? ad. and imm., April and May. These three birds are rather large, especially 

 the bills very wide, the sides of the head very dark, upperside more bluish than 

 usual. They form probably a local subspecies, but more material is reiiuired to 

 prove this. 



Some specimens, especially from the L'elebes group, appear to be quite as large; 

 others, for e.xample from the Duke of York Islands, almost or quite as bluish. 



32. Cacatua ducorpsi Jacq. & Pucher. 



1 c?, 2 ? ?, May I'.x.il. <? wing 2T8, ¥ ¥ 260 to 208 mm. Bills of the 

 females distinctly smaller. 



