18 ZOOLOGY OF THE SOLOMOX ISLANDS, 



bird is now considered to belong to a previously described species 

 and not to have come from the Solomons ; it must therefore be 

 omitted. 



I believe these are the most important, if not the whole of the 

 notices of the Solomon Island birds previous to my paper on 

 Cockerell's collection, which was read before the Linnean Society 

 of N.S.W., January 29th, 1879; this contains a record of 4o 

 species of which eight were described as new to science, and 

 since six others there mentioned — 



Graucalus elegans, Ptilopus lewisii, 



Baza gurneyii^ Macropygia rufrocastanea, 



Astur 2}i('^cheUus Halcyon tristrami, 



have proved to belong to undescribed species ; one species, 

 Monarcha rufrocastanea however is undoubtedly the Pomarea 

 castaneiventris of Verreaux, and the Dicceum erythrothorax, there 

 mentioned is D. (Bneum, Homh. et Jacq. Fifty one species were 

 therefore recorded when the next notice appeared, in the Ibi.s of 

 1879, p. 437, where an important paper of the Eev. Canon 

 Tristram's on a collection made by Lieutenant Eichards, R.N., 

 33 species are enumerated from the Solomons and the New 

 Hebrides ; unfortunately those from the Solomons are not 

 separated from those of the New Hebrides, and very few if any 

 of the localities or habitats are given. Having had access to 

 Lieutenant Richard's collections I feel much pleasure in 

 acknowledging his courtesy in giving m,e the localities by record- 

 ing them in the present paper (Part lY.) 



Mr. Tristram describes 1 1 species as new from the Solomons, 

 of which seven at least will stand, the others having been previously 

 described. 



These papers by Canon Tristram and myself were criticised by 

 Count Salvador! in the Ibis of 1880, p. 126, but many of the new 

 species, there considered doubtful, have since been proved b}'- 

 Canon Tristram (see Ibis 1880, p. 246) and myself elsewhere, to 



