300 DESCRIPTION OF TWO NEW BIRDS FROM SOLOMON ISLANDS, 



without metallic reflections, the sides of the face lighter, the 

 throat of a paler tint ; the chest, breast, and foreneck cinnamon- 

 brown, lightest towards the abdomen, a few feathers on the sides 

 of the chest tinted with the same rich metallic hue as the mantle 

 and wing-coverts ; the remainder of the under surface dark, dull, 

 reddish chocolate-brown, deeper in tint and inclining to rufous 

 on the under tail-coverts. The feathers of the breast being of a 

 light cinnamon tint contrast greatly with the dark chocolate-red 

 of the remainder of the under surface. 



This specimen is said to be a male, and was obtained by Mr. 

 John Stephen in April last, (1882) on San Christoval, one of the 

 Solomon Group. It is probably the species referred to by Canon 

 Tristram under the name of Phlogcdnas Johannce, of Sclater, which 

 it certainly is not. 



DiCRURUs fChihiaJ longirostrts, sp, w. 



All the body black with a steel-bluish tint in certain lights ; 

 the wings and tail black above, black with a brownish tint in 

 certain lights below, having the outer webs of the feathers above 

 margined with glossy steel-green ; the scapulars and all the upper 

 wing and tail-coverts glossy metallic-green, some of the feathers 

 of the rump and flanks tinged with the same ; feathers of the 

 head scale-like, black, conspicuously tipped with metallic-green 

 gloss, those of the neck above and below lanceolate in form, 

 tipped with the same tint, those of the breast with a rounded 

 spot of the same colour at the tip, and with narrow wavy cross 

 lines when seen obliquely. There is no metallic gloss on the ear- 

 coverts or chin, velvet-like plumes cover the nostrils, the rictfe 

 are very short, weak and in some specimens obsolete ; the tail is 

 even, the outermost feathers scarcely longer than the rest, but 

 have their tips curved outwards and upwards ; of the under 

 wing-coverts, those on the shoulders below, are glossed with green, 

 the remainder black, a few only having a whitish spot at the tip ; 

 the plumes of the flanks silky and rather long ; the under tail- 



