106 Letters, Announcements, S^c. 



long-lost Psittacus stavorini. Less., Voy. Coq. Zool. i, p. 355, 

 most likely described from memory ? 



In the footnote to the notice of my paper on the Birds 

 from Tarawai, there is one thing wrong. Chenorhamphus 

 cyanopectus. Oust. (= Todopsis grayi, Wall. = Myiagra glauca, 

 Schleg.), was not described from Tarawai, but from Am- 

 berpon. M. Oustalet admits now the identity asserted by 

 me. Possibly the genus Chenorhamphus will have to stand. 



I take this opportunity to mention that M. Oustalet's 

 recently described Fachycephala squalida {conf. Ibis, 1878, 

 p. 376) is a young bird of P. griseiceps, Gray. M. Oustalet 

 has kindly compared, at my request, his bird with two speci- 

 mens which 1 had compared with Gray^s type in the British 

 Museum. 



One of my objects when last year in Paris was to identify 

 Trerolcema leclancheri, Bp. ; and Mr. Elliot was with me when 

 I found out that it was the same as Leucotreron gironieri. 

 1 am glad to hear that he is of opinion that I was right. 



As to Hermotimia corinna, from the Duke-of-York Island, 

 I think that anybody who will look at a series of it in com- 

 parison with a series of H. aspasia will agree with me that 

 they certainly differ. The male has the throat, not purple, 

 more or less shining steel-blue, like the male of H. aspasia, 

 but pure steel-blue, like the male of H. aspasioides, from 

 Amboina, a species generally admitted, although it differs 

 from H, aspasia less than my H. corinna ; besides, the 

 female of this differs from those of H. aspasioides and H. 

 aspasia, which have the underparts greenish, by having the 

 same parts decidedly yellowish, and the throat much lighter. 

 If differences so conspicuous and so constant as these are to 

 be represented by names, I think that H. corinna will have 

 to stand. 



Yours truly, 



T. Salvadori. 



Turin, October 28tL, 1878. 

 Zoological Museum. 



