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27. — TrICHOGLOSSUS MASSENiE, Bj>. 



Bp. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 157 ; Finsch die Papag. II., p. 

 834 ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. X. p. 35. 



Several specimens obtained, varying slightly in the tint of the 

 red colouring of the under surface. 



Loc. Hall Sound, Katau. 



Order PASSERES. 

 Family STURNID^. 



28. — Calornis metallica, Temm. 



Bamsay P. L. S. 18, p. — ; Gould Handhk. Bds. Aust. vol. /., 

 p. 477 ; 0. viridiscens, G. B. Gray ; Sharpe. Journ. Linn. Soo. Zool. 

 XIII, p. 318. 



These specimens are undoubtedly the same as the Cape York 

 birds and identical also with those from Rockingham Bay and 

 the long tailed species from Port Moresby, but whether it be the 

 true metallica or not, 1 must leave to those who have an oppor- 

 tunity of examining the types to decide. Mr. Sharpe remarks 

 (op. cit. p. 318) that " the Yule Island bird agrees better with 

 0. viridescens, with a Dorey specimen of which I have compared 

 it, and it agrees with the latter in wanting the purple shade 

 upon the flank, so conspicuous in the true G. metallica.^^ I have 

 examined some hundreds of specimens from Rockingham Bay, 

 Cairns, Cooktown, Cape York, Yule Island, Hall Sound, Katau. 

 and Port Moresby, without finding any dijBference between any oi 

 them. 



Like the Australian examples, they breed together in hundreds, 

 constructing their flask-shaped nests together in clumps, occupy- 

 ing whole trees of immense size. I have myself counted over 

 300 nests on one tree in Australia. Mr. Masters informs me that 

 on one large tree on Yule Island, the mass of nests completely 

 covered and bore down the branches, and must have weighed 

 over twenty tons. 



Loc. Yule Island, Hall Sound, Katau. 



29. — EuLABES DUMONTii, Less. 



Sharpe, Journ. Linn. jSoc. Zool. XIII., p. 378 ; p. 501 ; Gracula 

 dumontii, Bamsay, P. L. S., N.JS. W., vol. I, p. 392. 



