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it is not improbable tliat it will prove to be only a phase of 

 plumage of If. Machinlayi, although, in the type specimen the bill 

 is stouter ; the coloration in all the species of Maeropygia I havo 

 met with varies considerably with age, and also frequently in the 

 sexes. 



CAMPOPHAGIM3. 



In Mr. Sharpe's Cat. of Bds., Vol. IV., I find our Campophaga 

 Jardinii of Gould, the Graucalus tenuirostris of Jard., placed in 

 the genus Edoliisma, a genus created for the reception of E. 

 milan by Jacquinot and Pucher, Voy. au Pole Sud., Zool. Ois. p. 

 69., 1853. The genus Lalage, (Boie, Isis 1826, p. 973.) is used 

 for all our small Campophagidce. Under the genus Symmorphus, 

 closely allied to Lalage, are two species, but neither descriptions 

 agree with specimens from New Hebrides and New Caledonia 

 in the Australian Museum. If Mr. Sharpe has taken his 

 descriptions from really adult birds, then there is undoubtedly 

 a third species yet to be described, but it is not inrprobable that 

 Mr. Sharpe's description of the ^ of S. noevius is from an immature 

 bird, and probably a § . 



A specimen in the Museum Collection from the New Hebrides, 

 an adult £ , received in spirits, agrees with the description of 8. 

 leucopygius, <$ , except in the lores which are uniformly black, in 

 the while of the under surface the cheeks and under wing-coverts 

 being white, and the rump of an ashy grey tint ; adult males (S. 

 nevhis f) from New Caledonia have the upper tail coverts white, 

 and the head, neck, wings, back, and tail black, like the New 

 Hebrides bird. 



Mr. Sharpe has cleared up the mystery respecting Lalage 

 leacomela, vel L. leucomelcena, the Campophaga leucomela of Vigors 

 and Horsfield. 



I find as synonyms of this species Lanius haru, Less, and Garn. 

 Campophaga har u, Gould, Bds. Aust. II. pi. 61 ; C. rufwentris, Gray 



