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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25th, 1879. 



The Hon. William Macleay, M.L.C., F.L.S., in the Chair. 



W. H. Archer Esq., was elected a Member. 



DONATIONS. 



Journal of the Eoyal Microscopical Society, Vol. II., part 2. 



Transactions of the Philosophical Society of Adelaide for 1877 



-78. 



Native Plants of Victoria by Baron F. von Mueller, K.C.M.Gr. 



papers head. 



Notes on some recently described Birds from the Solomon 

 Islands, with remarks on some Australian birds mentioned 

 in Mr. E. B. Sharpe's Cat. of Bds., Vol. IV. 



By E. P. Eamsay, F.L.S., C.M.Z.S. &c. 



MONARCHA RTJEOCASTANEA, RaMSOAJ. 



Since describing this Flycatcher from the Solomon Islands, I 

 find a note, in Sharpe's Cat. B. IV., p. 376. (just received) and a 

 figure, relating to the M. castaneiuentris of Verreaux ; fPomarva 

 castaneicentris, of Sharpe's Cat. Vol. IV., p. 435.) although my 

 species is very much smaller, it agrees well with Mr. Sharpe's 

 description in coloration. It appears that this bird is only known 

 in Europe by a single skin, in the British Museum, and the 

 habitat given is " Oceania" 



Ornithologists will be glad to learn the more definite habitat of 

 this fine species, and also to know that it is by no means rare on 

 the Island of " Gaudalcanar." This bird had hitherto been 

 confounded with Myiagra castaneiventris, of Finsch and Hartlaub ; 



