NO. 2276. REVISION OF SAVROPATIS CHL0RI8—0BERH0LSER. 387 



unworn tips of this with small flecks of blackish) ; lower black, rump, 

 and upper tail-coverts, sea green ; wings fuscous, the tertials, lesser and 

 median coverts, green like the back, the greater series and alula, bluish 

 sea green, the exposed portions of primaries and secondaries, except- 

 ing the fuscous tips, deep greenish cerulean blue ; tail myrtle green ; 

 lores dark olive brown ; siipraloral spot rather small, creamy white ; a 

 spot on lower eyelid white, but no white feathers in the dark brown 

 eye-ring; superciliary and postocular regions greenish olive like the 

 crown; auricular, subocular, and malar regions brownish black; en- 

 tire lower surface white, (a few dusky edgings on the sides of throat 

 and breast) ; undei wing-coverts white exteriorly, much mixed with 

 dark brown and dull greenish. 



Measurements. — Female^: wing, 102 mm.; tail, 6C>.5; exposed cul- 

 men, 44.5 ; tarsus, 16.5. 



Tijpe locality. — Havannah Harbor, Vate Island, New Hebrides 

 Islands, Melanesia. 



Geographic distrihution. — New Hebrides Islands. 



Remarks. — The only specimen we have is an adult, presumably a 

 female, but this differs so radically from females of the other races 

 that it can scarcely belong to any of them. Compared with the same 

 sex of Sauropatis chloris chloris it is much smaller; has no white 

 line over the eye; has the white supraloral spot smaller; the upper 

 parts much darker throughout ; the pileum more brownish ; the back 

 just below the white collar blackish ; outer edges of wing-quills much 

 more bluish (less greenish) and thus more contrasted with the inter- 

 scapulum; no white in the lower part of the orbital feathering; black 

 nuchal band wider: and the outer under wing-coverts mottled with 

 blackish brown and dark greenish. It differs from Sanropatis chlons 

 sordidayoi Australia, in smaller size; darker, more greenish (less 

 olivaceous) upper parts, the mantle below the white collar being 

 blackish; more bluish outer vanes of wing-quills; larger white occi- 

 pital patch; somewhat smaller white supralond spot; more blackish 

 ear-coverts; and the extensive admixture of dark brown and dark 

 greenish on the under wing-coverts, this existing to a much greater 

 degree than in even the ju venal stage of any form of Sauropatis 

 chloris examined. From Sauropatis chloris colonus, of the Louisiade 

 Archipelago, Sauropatis chloris h>/perpontia may be distinguished 

 by its greater size: rather lighter upper surface; more bluish (less 

 greenish) outer vanes of wing-quills; much less or no buffy wash on 

 white areas; lack of any indication of a white superciliary stripe; 

 and by the considerable admixture of blackish brown and dark 

 greenish in the white of the outer under Aving-coverts, which parts 

 are pure white in Sauropatis chloris colonus. 



' One specimen, the type. 



