16 ZOOLOGY OF THE SOLOMO:^ ISLAI^'DS, 



Notes oi^ the Zoolog^t oe the Solomo]N' Islands. — Part TV. 



By E. p. Eamsay, E.L.S., &c. 



"When I first wrote on the Ornithology of the Solomon Islands 

 in 1879, only about thirty-five authentic species were known 

 from that group, it may therefore not be out of place, to give here 

 a resume of all that has been done up to the present time. 



As far as I can ascertain the first notice of the Birds of the 

 Solomon Islands is given by Hombron and Jacquinot in the 

 " Voyage au Pole Sud," where the following species are described: 



Athene tceniata, Lorius cardinaJis, 



Pachycepliala orioloides, Pionias lieteroclituSy 

 Lamprotornis fulvipennis, ,, cyanicejos, 



Sturnoides gifjf^s, Cacatua ducorpsil, 



DiccBum ceneum, Carpopliarja rufigula, 



Myzomela lafargei.^ Peristera stepliani. 



And MyzomeJa solltaria, which last being well known to come 

 from the Eigi group alone, must be omitted, reducing the number 

 of the then known species to 11, or 10 if we take JPionias 

 cyaniceps as the female of P. lieterocUtus. The next notice I 

 come to, is in Bonaparte's Conspectus Avium, from which may be 

 added Carpopliaga pristinaria, and Nycticorax manillensis. After 

 this little seems to have been done, imtil the voyage of the 

 " Eattlesnake," during which Mr. John Magillivray collected the 

 following, described by Mr. G-ould in the P.Z.S., 1856, pp. 136^ 

 137: 



Centropus iiiilo, Lorius clilorocercus, 



TuraccBua crassirostris, lotreron (Pfilonojms) eugenice. 



In Gray's Catalogue of Birds of the Tropical Islands of the 

 Pacific, I find five additional species mentioned : 

 Carpopliaga ruhracera, Halcyon leucopygia, 



Halcyon cinnamonia, Triclioglossus massence. 



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