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33. Nasiterna aolae Oaiit. 



4 (J, 1 ?, April and Mtiy 1901. lu three of the males the iris is marked as 

 pale red, in one as bright red, the feet and bill blnish slate-colour. The blue 

 middle of the pileum characterises both sexes. Anterior part of cheeks to both 

 sides of the lower bill and chin blue in the male, brownish red in the/emale. 



34. Trichoglossus haematodus massena Bp. 



Three specimens. They show the yellowish nuchal collar similarly interrupted 

 to those from Kulambangra. (Anted, p. liS6.) 



35. Eos cardinalis (Gray). 

 Both sexes, April and May. 



30. Lorius chlorocercus Gould. 



A series of adults and one young male. Tliis young male lacks the black 

 patch in front of the shoulders, the yellow pectoral collar is obsolete, and the thighs 

 are much mixed with green. The iris of the adults is marked as red, that of the 

 young as brown. The bill of the adults is dark red, that of the young deep brown. 



37. Charmosynopsis margarethae (Tristr.) 



<S ? and juv., four in all, from Guadalcanar. They agree with the Kulambangra 

 specimens (anted, p. 187). It is strange that former collectors did not come across 

 this most conspicuous and beautiful bird. 



38. GeofFroyus heteroclitus (Hombr. & Jacq.V 



A good series of old and young. 



39. Eclectus pectoralis solomonensis Rothsch. & Hart. 

 An immature male, o. v. 1001. 



40. Baza subcristata gurneyi Rams. 



?, with the remiges in moult, Guadalcanar 'J.j. iv. I'JOl. " Iris bright yellow, 

 feet zinc-blue, bill black, slate-colour at base." We have also a S, collected by 

 Mr. C. M. Woodford on Russell Island, north of Guadalcanar, in July 1896. "Iris 

 yellow." These two specimens agree in every detail. Tliey have the chest and 

 abdomen white with deep slaty-black bars, the under tail-coverts of a somewhat 

 ])ale cinnamon, the under wing-coverts white with a buffy-cinnamon wash in the 

 middle. The subterminal band to the outer rectrices is very wide (about 5 to G cm. 

 on the lateral pair). This latter peculiarity, together with the almost snow-white 

 ground-colour of the feathers of the under-surface, and the slaty-black bars, without 

 a brown tinge, seem to separate this form sufficiently, as a subsjiecies, from Baza 

 subcristata reinicardti ; but it is very closely allied to B. s. hismarcki Sharjie from 

 New Ireland and New Hanover. B. s. bismaix/ti is only, judging from our two 

 skins from New Hanover, larger, the wing about 2 to 3 cm. longer, the bill larger 



