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dull blackish towards the base of the inner webs, two centre 

 feathers green, becoming blackish brown at the base ; upper tail 

 coverts, bright green ; quills above, blackish brown, primaries 

 margined narrowly with golden yellow, secondaries broadly with 

 green on the outer webs ; wing coverts above, green ; the basal 

 portion, blackish brown ; under surface of the quills, blackish 

 brown ; the outer webs narrowly, the inner rather broadly mai'gined 

 with yellow ; under wing coverts, brown washed with at tips and 

 margined, with yellow ; the margins of the shoulders tinged with 

 green ; bill olive green ; legs and feet bluish, tinged with red. 

 Total length, 6| inches ; wing, 4-4 ; tail, 2 - 2 ; tarsus, 0*85 ; bare 

 portion, 0-3 ; bill from forehead, 065 ; from the anterior margin of 

 nostril to tip, 03 ; from gape, 0*8. 



The collection contains. a fine series of the young and adults of 

 both sexes, all obtained at Kandavu, to which place this species 

 seems confined. 



31. — Carpophaga latrans, Peale, U.S. Expl. Expd.pl. 26. 



32. — Carpophaga (Janthcenas) vitiensis, Quoy and Qaim, Voy. 



Astrol. t. 28. 

 The young of this species resembles the adult generally, but is 

 not so brightly coloured or so distinctly marked. Adult, cere and 

 base of the bill, crimson ; tip, horn colour ; legs, crimson — iris 

 brown. 



33. — Charadrius longipes, Temn. 

 C. fulvus, p. ; Hartl. and Finsch. 



34. — Limosa uROPYGiALis, Oould, B. Aust. YI., pt. 29. 

 This species appears to be plentiful. 



35. — Totanus incanus, Gmel. 

 A very common species. 



36. — Ortygometra tabuensis, Gmel. 

 Porzana vitiensis, Hartl. 

 Only one specimen obtained ; this species seems to have an 

 immense range of habitat being found all over Australia, Tasmania, 

 New Zealand, and the Tropical Islands of the South Seas. Bill, 

 black ; legs and feet, yellow — iris red. 



