68 NOTES ON THE ZOOLOGY OF THE SOLOMON ISLANDS, 



7. — Cacatua dtjcorpsii, Homb. et Jacq. 

 This is evidently a common species found all over the group. 



Loc. Savo ; Gaudalcanar, &c. 



8. — LORIXTS CHLOROCERCUS, GoitU. 



One specimen from Isld. of Savo. 



9. — Lorixts cardinalis, Homb. et Jacq. 

 A large number of this beautiful species was obtained. I find 

 the females slightly smaller than the males, but equally bright 

 in color. The base of the bill is horn-color, the tip red ; the 

 lower mandible coral red, the skin round its base yellow, cere 

 and skin round the chin, dark horn-brown in dry and spirit 

 specimens ; the margin of the shoulders below, in some is 

 tinged with blue. 



The last is from a spirit specimen — the sex of which I have 

 ascertained by dissection, the others from dry skins. 

 Loc. Savo. 



10. — G-eofroyius heteroclitus, Homb. et Jacq. 

 I find this bird identical with a young bird from Duke of York 

 Island, a careful examination will easily distinguish them from 



