BY E. T. RAMSAY, F.L.S. 397 



This species comes near to L. airovirens, but is smaller, the 

 plumage soft and fluffy, the rump is of a bluish-grey tint, and 

 the outer three feathers on either side largely tipped with white ; 

 the wings short ; under tail-coverts long ; it agrees neither with 

 Mr. Sharpe's description of St/inmorphus navia, nor S. leucopygialis; 

 it is not improbable that S. nccvia is the ? of S. leucopygialis, 

 nevertheless, we have specimens of both species in the Museum. 

 I am inclined to the belief that all three belong to one and the 

 same species.* 



NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Figian Fossils. — Mr. Macleay read the following extracts from 

 a letter he had received from A. Boyd, Esq,, Waidau, Figi, in 

 answer to enquiries respecting the Figian Fossils described by 

 the Eev. J. E. Tenison- Woods at the last monthly meeting : 



"Kespecting the fossils, I sent you all I had, and I fear it 

 would pay neither of us to go for more. I should have to make 

 a journey of some 120 miles to get to the place, and the cost of 

 carrying such heavy things to the coast, distant about 40 miles 

 by road would be great. 



" I first met with these fossils on the summit of a hill 25 miles 

 from Nadi, called Kow-balann, 1,350 feet (approximate) above 

 sea level." 



To this Mr. Boyd appends the following note : " The rock 

 containing them was called by the natives " Vatu-cakau," 

 (chacrau), or literally " Beef Bock." Mr. Boyd goes on to say, 

 " Those you have however, were found further in the interior, 

 near the Government Camp, and about 200 feet above sea level. 

 The country is greatly broken up in hills and valleys, running in 

 no general direction, and resembling on an immense scale the 



* Since the above was written I find a new species has been described from 

 the South Sea Islands, which is probably the same. 



