386 PLOCEID^. 



secondaries ; bastard- wing and primary-coverts blackish ; quills dusky 

 brown, edged with green, the primaries with yellowish green ; rump 

 and upper tail-coverts dull crimson : centre tail-feathers dull crim- 

 son, the remainder blackish, dull crimson along the outer web ; base 

 of forehead, lores, and base of cheeks blackish ; a broad frontal 

 band, eyebrow, sides of face, ear-coverts, and cheeks cobalt-blue ; 

 throat and under surface of body clear grass-green, a little lighter 

 on the throat and breast ; thighs ochreous yellow ; under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries ochreous buff, the latter washed with green ; 

 quills dusky below, ochreous bufE along the inner web : " bill black ; 

 feet pale brown ; iris black " ( 0. M. Woodford) Total length 5'3 

 inches, culmen 0*5, wing 2-35, tail 1-9, tarsus 0-65. 



Adult female. Everywhere duller in colour than the male. Total 

 length 4*7 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 2'3, tail 1-65, tarsus 0"65. 



Young. Differs from the adults in having no blue on the forehead 

 or face, both of which are green : throat and breast dingy green, 

 shading off into ochreous butf on the abdomen and under tail-coverts; 

 bill blackish, with more or less white on the lower mandible and 

 edge of the upper : " iris dark brown " (C M. Woodford). 



The specimens from the Solomon Islands appear to me to have a 

 somewhat narrower frontal baud, but are otherwise identical with 

 those from Ternate. 



Mab. Moluccas, New Guinea, Caroline Islands, and Solomon 

 Islands. 



a, i- d' ? fid. sk. Ternate. Wallace Coll. (Types 



of JS. modesta.) 

 c-i. <S 2 ^^- s^- Ternate. 



k. 2 juv. sk. Ternate. Purchased. 



h '"• cJ ? ad. sk. Aola, Guadalcanav, C. M. Woodford, Esq. 



July 5. [C] 



8. Erythrura cyaneifrons. 



Erjthrura cyanifrons, .E. L. Layurd, Ann. ^- Mag. N. II. (5) i. 



p. 374 (1878). _ 

 Erythiura cyaneifrons, E. L. Sf L. C. Loi/ard, Ibis, 1878, p. 2(50 ; 



Tristr. Ibis, 1879, p. 191 ; E. L. ^- L. C. Lcujard, Ibis, 1880, 



p. 230. 



Adxdt male. Similar to E. trichroa, but smaller and with a decidedly 

 smaller bill : " bill black ; legs brown ; iris vaudyke brown " (E. 

 L. Lai/ard). Total length 4'o inches, culmen 0'45, wing 2*2, tail 

 1'75, tarsus 0'65. 



Adult female. Similar to the male, but duller in colour. Total 

 length 4 inches, culmen 0"45, wing 2 25, tail 1"4, tarsus 0-65. 



Hab. Loyalty Islands ; New Hebrides. 



a. cJ ad. sk. Lifu, Loj'alty Islands, Aug. 25. E. L. Layard, Esq. [C.]. 



b, c. cJ 5 ad. Port Resolution, Tanna, New 

 sk. Plebrides, July. 



