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has a green frontal spot, and is greenish hronze above and below. I compared 

 //. claudia with the type of //. vlolicollis in the British ^Museum. All the other 

 species of this genus are before me in Mr. Kothschild's collection, e.xcept H. rotschilcU 

 (sic!) of Boncard, and H. Iienrici of the same author, the foi-mer from Colombia, the 

 latter from Ecuador, but botli are, according to M. Boucard's description, quite 

 different, 



I give this bird the name of my wife, who is much interested in Trochilidae, 

 and generally assists me in my work on this familv. 



DESCKIPTION OF A NEW FLYCATCHER FEOM THE 

 SOLOMON ISLANDS. 



By ERNST HARTERT. 



Pomarea ribbei sp. nov. 



Capite, collo, pectore siimmo et corpore supra nitide nigris; macula anteoculari 

 magna alba ; alis et cauda nigris ; pectore imo et abdomine toto castaneis ; axillaribus 

 et subalaribus castaneis dilutioribus, nonnullis prope marginem carpalem nigris ; 

 remigibus iutus ad basin griseo marginatis ; rostro caerulescente ; pedibus caerule- 

 scente-corneis. 



Long. tot. circ. 175 mm. ; al. 8G — 90 mm.; caud. 79 — 82 mm. ; culm. 20 mm. ; 

 tars. 18—19 mm. 



Hab. zinnia, Ins. Salomonis. 



Three skins of this new Pomarea were collected in ]Munia, Shortland Islands, 

 Solomon Archipelago, by ]Messrs. Wahnes and Carl Kibbe, and sent to Ms. Rothschild's 

 ^Museum by Herr H. Eibbe. They were shot on September 27th and 28th. 

 Besides the colours of the bill and feet, given above, the labels give the following 

 information: eyes black; total length in the flesh 17-5—19 cm.; wing 8J, cm.; 

 tail 7^8 cm.; tarsus 2 ; longest toe 1-02, 1-03, and 1-04 cm.; moutli 2. They 

 are all three alike in colour. Two are labelled 6 6, one ?. One of the laalcs 

 is slightly larger than the other, and the female a little smaller than the smallest 

 male. 



This species is nearest to Pomarea erythrostida Sharpe (P. Z. S., 1888, p. 185), 

 but differs in having a white anteocular spot, instead of a cinnamon rufous one, and 

 in being larger. 



