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LIST OF A COLLECTION OF BIRDS MADE ON YSABEL 

 ISLAND IN THE SOLOMON GROUP BY MR. A. S. MEEK. 



By Hon-. WALTER ROTHSCHILD and ERNST HARTERT. 



(Plates VII. & XI.) 



THIS is onr third contribntioii to the ornitholo,s:y of the .Solomon Islands. 

 In Nov. ZooL. VIII. 1901. pp. 179-89, we gave a list of 48 species from 

 Kulanibangra and Florida Islands ; in the same volnme, pp. 373-82, one of 

 57 s]H'cies from Gnadaleauar; now we are enumerating yS species from Ysahel, 

 Isaliel or Bngotn. The first explorers of the Solomons, on the corvettes Astrolabe 

 and Z^lee, made good collections on Ysabel ; and recently Canon Tristram, in the 

 lliix 1S94, i>. 2S, and 1S95, p. 373 ff., mentioned some liirds from that island, and 

 described several novelties. The present collection is evidently the best hitherto 

 made on Ysabel. It contains, besides a series of the valuable Nasiterna nanina 

 Tristr., Zosterops metcalfei Tristr., and other rarities, such remarkable novelties 

 as Pitta aner)/(hra Rothscli., Fodargus inexpectatus Hart., and Pseudopti/nx 

 snlomonensis Hart. 



We hope to be able to continue our notes on birds from the Solomons next 

 year, as there are still a number of islands the ornis of which is but imperfectly 

 known. 



1. Dicaeum aeneum Jacq. et Puch. 



IHcaeum aeneum Jacq. et Puch., I'oy. Pole Sad, Zool. Ois. (1853) p. 97 (" lies 

 Salomon, San Jorge "). 



A series of both sexes. " Iri.s dark brown, feet slaty, bill black." 



2. Cinnyris frenata (S. Milll.). 



Eectariniit frenata S. Miill., Verj. Xatnurl. (iesr/i., Land- en if- Volkenkiinde 

 (1843) p. 173, note (type : Lobo, New Guinea). 



A fine series of both sexes. " Iris brown, iV' \ and bill black." 



3. Myzomela lafargei Jacq. et Pnch. 



Mijzomela lafargei Jacq. et Puch., Toy. Pole Sttd, Zool. Ois. p. 08 (1853) 

 (Solomon Is.). 



A fine series of this very rare species. The young male is I'kc tiic adult 

 fem/ile, only a little larger. " Iris dark brown, feet slate, bill black." 



(This bird is figured in the atlas to the Voi/. au Pule Slid. Figs. 1 and 2 

 of Plate VII. show the adnlt mole of ^fl/l■omela eichlwrni from Kulamliangra, 

 described Nov. Zool. 1901. ]i. 181). 



4. Zosterops metcalfei Tristr. 

 Zosterops metealfei Tristram, Ihis ]>94. p. 29. PI. III. (Bugotu = Ysabel). 

 A good series. Through the kindness of Dr. H. 0. Forbes, of the Liverpool 

 Museum, we have been able to examine the type of this sjiecies. It is evident 



