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Part VIII. 



Dicranostreptus megarhyuchus. Ciunyria mysorensis. 



CEdirhinus insolitus. sangirensis. 



Astrapia nigra. Todopsis cyanocephala. 



Eclectus polychlorus. bonapartii. 



Geoffroyius heteroclitiis, wallacii 



Cinnyris maforensis. grayi. 



Amongst the many rarities illustrated in these numbers 

 we may call special attention to the beautiful figures of 

 Paradigalla carunculata, of which, until quite recently, two 

 imperfect specimens only were known, to the novelties dis- 

 covered by Mr. Brown, Tanysiptera nigriceps and Phlogoenas 

 johannee, and to the series of Nasitema from different 

 islands. 



(5) Grandidier on a new Owl. 



[Note sur un nouveau Strigid^ de Madagascar, par M. Alfred Gran- 

 didier. Bull. Soc. Philomatb. de Paris, ser. 7, ii. p. 65.] 



Describes Phodilus soumagnei {=Heliodilus soumagnei, A. 

 Milne-Edwards. See Ibis, 1878, p. 196. 



6. Layard on New Birds from Lifu. 



[Descriptions of new Species of Birds from the Island of Lifii, New 

 Caledonia. By E. L. Layard, C.M.G., H.B.M. Consul, Noumea, New 

 Caledonia. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, i. p. 374.] 



The species described are Turdus pritzhueri, Pachycephala 

 littayei, Zosterops minuta, Z. inornata, and Erythrura cy- 

 anofrons. 



