70 NOTES ON THE ZOOLOGY OP THE SOLOMON ISLANDS, 



13. — Eudynamys taitiensis, Sparm. 

 Three specimens only. 

 Log. Savo. 



14. — ? Chalcites plagostjs. Temm. 



Two specimens only, smaller than the Australian birds of this 

 species (?), and with a much larger and stronger bill, perhaps 

 identical with C. minutilus. (Gould. J 



Log. Savo. 



15. — Pachycephala oeioloides, Peale. 



Several specimens adults and young, both males and females of 

 this fine species. 



Adult female. — The whole of the head, the neck, chest, mantle, 

 wings and tail above, cinnamon brown, becoming almost white 

 on the throat, and deepest in tint on the ear-coverts, head, and 

 wings ; the lower part of the back and rump olive brown, the 

 upper tail-coverts cinnamon ; tail above slightly tinged 

 with olive on the inner webs, the concealed portion of the wing 

 feathers blackish brown, below dull brown, the margin of the inner 

 webs pale cinnamon color, margin of the shoulders yellow, under 

 wing-coverts pale cinnamon ; breast and abdomen whitish, sides 

 and flanks washed with light cinnamon brown, crissum and feathers 

 at the knee joints yellow, under-tail coverts yellow, becoming 

 cinnamon laterally, and at their tips ; bill light horn brown, legs 

 greyish. Total length, 6-8 in. ; wing, 3-75 ; tail, 3 in. ; tarsus, 

 0*95 ; bill, about 0*9 (tip broken) ; from gape to tip of lower 

 mandible, 1 in. 



Log. G-audalcanar. 



16. — Gractjla (Eulabes) krefptii, Sclater. 

 The upper tail-coverts of this species are normally white, but 

 I find a few feathers on the sides washed with yellow, like those 

 on the abdomen ; some of the under tail-coverts are margined 

 also with the same tint ; common throughout the group. 



