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Ilalcyoninse I observe that the under wing-coverts seem to 

 grow pure white with age, while in immature birds they are 

 more or less cinnamon-colour. I have received a large series 

 of H. julicB from Aneiteum, and also several specimens of H. 

 sancta from the same place. — H. B. T.] 



\_Note. — Samoa. Halcyon pealei, F. & H. I have a soli- 

 tary example of this bird from Tutuila, the only place where 

 it is found in the Navigators^ Islands^ kindly procured for me 

 by Mr. Whitmee. The sex was not marked ; but I think it a 

 female. Sharpe, I remember, unites this with H sacra ; and, 

 except that it has more white about the head than that bird, 

 I see no difference. In this species the under wing-coverts are 

 pure white ; in Halcyon recurvirostra, Lafr, in the male pale 

 cinnamon, in the female just washed. 



Tonga. Halcyon sacra ,^ , ? ^ et juv. Under-coverts en- 

 tirely pure white. In my Fijian male the flanks, nuchal collar, 

 and eyebrow are, more or less, cinnamon. In my Tongan 

 male, adult, these parts are white, as in the female, while a 

 young male shows traces of the cinnamon. — E. L. L.] 



5. COLLOCALIA UROPYGIALIS, G. R. G. 



6. CoLLocALiA LEucopYGiA, Wall., and 



7. COLLOCALIA ? 



These three Swiftlets were universally distributed on all the 

 islands visited. — L. L. 



Only three specimens were brought by L. L., one of each 

 species. The first two accord well with New-Caledoniau 

 birds, which I identify as above. The third, and last, is like 

 nothing that I have seen in Fiji, Samoa, or Tonga. It is 

 larger and more robust than any I have from these places, 

 and is of a uniform smoky dark drab, with no white patch on 

 the rump. I feel sure that I saw a bird of this species pass 

 over my head as I sat in a window of my present residence. 

 A number of the common Swiftlet (C. leucopygia) were flying 

 about ; and as the bird in question passed I instantly detected 

 its much larger size and square form, and the absence of the 

 white uropygium. It appeared to me also that the shape of 

 the tail, as it spread it, was different ; but I had but a momen- 

 tary glance of this. On seeing the bird brought from the 



