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(oj9. cit.), but the figure there shows a dark ring round the white 

 eye-ring, which is not found in the skins before me. 

 7. — ZosTEROPS GRiSEONOTA, G. B. Gray. 



There is no difference in the plumage of the sexes. 



Hah. Eromanga; Rev. H. A. Robertson. 



8. — Graucalds caledonicus, Gm. 

 Two specimens. 

 Hah. Eromanga ; Dr. Mackinlay, Rev. H. A. Robertson. 



9. — Lalage, sp. 

 ? Lalage pacifica, Gmelin. 



Adult male. Head, back of the neck, wings, back and tail 

 black, with a faint greenish metallic gloss ; rump and upper tail- 

 coverts, bluish ashy grey ; chin, throat, the lower part of the 

 ear-coverts, under wing-coverts (except the under margin of the 

 shoulders), the basal half of all the inner webs of all the wing 

 quills, and the whole of the under surface of the body and the 

 under tail-coverts, pure white ; tail black, with the outer three 

 feathers on either side largely tipped with white, the fourth quill 

 slightly tipped, and the fifth with a mere indication of white. 

 The margins of the wings on the under surface are black, a few 

 feathers at the base of the primaries are margined with white, no 

 white on the first primary quill. On the upper surface of the 

 wing, the secondaries are very narrowly margined with white, 

 the scapularies and their coverts, largely on both webs ; the 

 central wing-coverts white, with black shaft lines, and black tips 

 and margins, forming a broad patch of white across the wing, a 

 little below the base of the secondaries ; all the primary-coverts 

 black, the greater senes of the secondary-coverts white on both 

 webs at the base, and also slightly tipped with white ; the lores 

 are black, and no white extends above the eye ; legs, feet, and 

 bill, black. 



Total length of the flesh, 7'1 in ; wing, 3 '3 ; tail, 3*1 ; tarsus, 

 lin. ; bill, from forehead, 07, from gape, 0*8, from nostril, 0*4. 



Hah. Mountains of Eromanga; sent by the Rev. H. A. Robertson. 

 This is, perhaps, the L. pacifica, Gm., of which, unfortunately, I 

 have no description to compare it with. 



