31^ NOVITATES ZOOLOOICAB XXV. 191S. 



Collocalia esculenta esculenta (L.). 



Three adult females, January and February 1910. New for Rcssel Island. 



The throat and chest of these specimens is rather dark, similar to Dampier 

 Island examples. Generally eastern specimens, from the Louisiade group, 

 D' Entrecasteaux Islands, eastern New Guinea, and Dampier Island, are rather 

 darlier on the throat and chest tlian a series from the Moluccas and Celebes 

 region, but Salomon Islands ones are mostly not very dark. We tliink that 

 these forms cannot be separated, but wish to call attention to their variation. 



Lorius (auct.) hypoenochrous rosselianus subsp. nov. 



We had already half a dozen sldns from Meek's former collection and have now 

 received another six. All these birds differ from L. hypoenochrous hypoenochrous 

 (terra typica Sudest Island!) in having the breast of a darker, more vinous red, 

 about the same colour as the upper part of the abdomen, wliile in L. h. hypoeno- 

 chrous the breast is brighter red, in distinct contrast to the dark vinous red 

 upper part of the abdomen. This is easily seen when a series is compared, 

 though a few Sudest Island specimens (three out of a series of sixteen) in worn 

 plumage approach rosselianus. The latter is also averaging larger: the bills 

 are, as a rule, bigger, and the Mings reach greater length ; tliis latter character, 

 however, requires further confirmation, as half of our Sudest birds and a few of 

 the Rossel ones are in moult, and thus not fit for wing- measurements. As it is we 

 obtain from L. h. hypoenochrous length of wing 168-174 (mostly not over 170), 

 from rosselianus 170-180, once 168, mostly about 173-176 mm. 



Type of L. hypoenochrous rosselianus : S ad. Mt. Rossel, 14. xi. 1915. Eich- 

 liorn Bros. leg. No. 6831 of the A. S. Meek collections. 



? Accipiter ciri'hocephalus papuanus R. & H. 



Accipiter cirrhocephalics papuanus Rothschild & Hartert, Nov. Zool. 1913. p. 482 (South-Eastem 

 New Guinea). 



In 1898 we had a young bird which Hartert catalogued as " Accipiter sp. inc." 

 We have now received another young bird, and both look uncommonly like 

 juvenile A. c. papuanus, but old birds must be obtained to ascertain where they 

 belong. Curious to say, both birds are marked as males, while they agree in 

 dimensions wth females, not at all with males of A. c. papuanus. 



The following species must be added to the fauna of Rossel Island ; — 



Coliunba metallica halmaheira (Bp.). 

 I o, quite typical. 



Notophoyx novaehollandiae (Lath.). 

 1 o', 7.i. 1910. 



