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black, with a distinct steel-green wash ; under wing-coverts black, 

 washed with green on the edges ; quills Idackish below, browner 

 along the inner web : " bill black : feet and legs purplish black, 

 with whitish on the soles; iris deep red-orange "( i. C. Laijanl). 

 Total length 7"6 inches, culmen (>75, wing 4-1, tail 2-75, tarsus 1. 



Adult female. Grey, with a greenish shade ; below grej'^, the 

 lower abdomen grejish white ; under tail-coverts uniform light 

 grey ; wing-coverts and quills blackish, externally greenish grey. 

 Total length 7"2 inches, culmen 0'75, wing 4, tail 2*6, tarsus 0-9. 



Hah. New Caledonia. 



a. Ad. st. New Caledonia. Purchased. 



b, c. rS ad. sk. New Caledonia. Purchased. 



d. Ad. sk. New Caledonia, March 2, 1858. J. McGilllvray [C.]. 



e. 2 ad. sk. Port de France, New Cale- J. McGilUvray [C.]. 



donia, May 14, 1858. (Type of A. vir'uligrisea.) 



f. Ad. sk. Port de France, .June 25, 1858. J. McGillivrav, Esq. 



[C.]. 

 '/, /'• 6 $ ad. sk. MarPohit,New Caledonia, Aug. Tweeddale Coll. 



10, 1880 {E. L. Layard). 

 i. <S ad. sk. Dembea, New Caledonia, Dec. Tweeddale Coll. 



29, 1879 (E. L. Layard). 

 h. S ad. sk. Noumea, July .5, 1876 {E. L. Tweeddale Coll. 



L(iyard). 

 I. S ad. sk. Isle of Pines, Oct. 10, 185.3 Gould Coll. 



{J. McGilllvray). 



2. Aplonis atronitens. 



Aplonis atronitens. Gray, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 164; id. Hand-l. B. ii. 



p. 26, no. 6.367 (1870) ; E. L. i^- L. C. Layard, Ibis, 1880, p. 229 ; 



Buller, B. Keio Zealand, 2nd ed. i. p. 25 (1887). 

 Aplonis caledonica {iiec Bp.), Tristr. Ibis, 1879, p. 184. 



Adult. Similar to A. striata, but larger : " bill and legs black ; 

 iris orange " {L. C. Layard). Total length S inches, culmen 0-8, 

 wing 4" 6, tail 2'55, tarsus I'l. 



Mr. Layard is quite right in supposing (Ibis, 1880, p. 229) that 

 Gray's tj-pe of A. atronitens is immature. He states also that young 

 males resemble the old females until the first moult. 



Hab. Loyalty Islands. 



a. Juv. sk. Loyalty Islands. Sir G. Grey [P.]. 



(Type of species.) 

 6. (5 ad. sk. [Loyalty Islands.] Tweeddale CoU. 



3. Aplonis cantoroides. 



Lamprotornis cantor, Miill. Verh. Land- en VoTkenk. p. 22 (1839-44). 

 Calornis cantoroides. Gray, P. Z. S. 1861, pp. 431, 436 ; Wall. 



P. Z. S. 1862, p. 343 ; Gray, Iland-l. B. ii. p. 26, no. 6379 (1870) ; 



Wold. Trans. Z. S. viii. p. 80 (1874) ; S/iarpe, Ibis, 1876, p. 47 ; 



Sahrid. Ann. Mas. Civic. Genov. ix. p. 38 (1876), x. p. 150 (1877) ; 



Sharpe, Journ. Linn. Soc, Zoul. xiii. p. 501 (1877) ; Salvad. Atti 



R. Accad. Torino, xiii. p. 321 (1878) ; Eosenb. Malay. Arch. p. 395 



