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NOTES ON THE ZOOLOGY OF THE SOLOMON ISLANDS, 



wing-coverts and axillaries with narrow transverse bars of black 

 and white. The lores from the nostrils to the eye are black, 

 which color is slightly produced anteriorly beneath that organ ; 

 bill and legs black. 



A second specimen said to be the female of this species, differs 

 only in the loreal region being duller, or of a blackish lead color, 

 and the remainder of the under surface (except the legs) from 

 opx^osite the shoulders and including the under tail-coverts 

 transversely barred with alternate black and white lines ; bill 

 and legs black. 



Total length 

 Wing 

 Tail .. 

 Tarsus 



Bill from forehead 

 Bill from gape 

 Bill from nostril 

 Loc. Graudalcanar. 



22. — Caepophaga eufigtjla, Salvad. 



? C. rubracera, G.R. Gray. 



Three specimens only of this fine species were obtained. The 

 Museum has recently received from the Solomon Islands through 

 the kindness of Lieutenant Musters of H.M.S. " Conflict," a fine 

 specimen of this species in spirits from which I find the peculiar 

 formation of the cere, which has not been noticed before, being 

 quite distorted in the dry skins, closely resembles that of C. 

 aurorce, Peale, figured by Cassin, Zool. U. S. Expl. Exped. p. 

 258, (1858). 



Loc. Savo. 



23. — Caepophaga (? peistinaeia, Bp.) 

 This appears to be the commonest large fruit Pigeon on the 

 Island ; several specimens obtained. I have not been enabled to 



