180 Canon Tristram on Birds from 



spersed with dark brown feathers, tinged with rufous ; the 

 upper breast is bright but not dark rufous, interspersed with 

 dark brown shaft-marks to each feather, and a simihirly 

 coloured irregular central spot on most of them ; between 

 the upper and lower breast are a few white feathers, slightly 

 tinged with rufous towards the tip, and sparsely speckled with 

 dark brown; the lower breast and abdomen are transversely 

 marked with alternate bars of rufous and dark brown ; but on 

 some of the feathers whitish bars appear in the place of the 

 rufous ones ; the feathers of the flank are dark brown, tipped 

 and in some cases crossed also with rufous ; the tibial and 

 tarsal feathers are dark brown slightly tipped with rufous ; 

 the under tail-coverts are white tinged with rufous, especially 

 towards the ends of the feathers ; the axillary plumes are 

 rufous brown with irregular white transverse bars ; the 

 under wing-coverts are dark brown, but the smaller feathers 

 are broadly edged, some with white, hut others with rufous, 

 the latter preponderating. 



XV. — Notes on Collections of Birds sent from New Cale- 

 donia, from Lifu [one of the Loyalty Islands), and from the 

 Neiv Hebrides by E. L. Layard, C.M.G. ^c. By H. B. 

 Tristram, F.R.S. 



(Plates IV.-VI.) 

 I HAVE recently received from Mr, Layard very interesting 

 collections from the above-named localities, comprising the 

 types of many of his new species, on which I propose to offer 

 a few remarks, reviewing the collections in geographical order. 

 From New Caledonia I find : — 

 1. Falco melanogenys, Gould. 



This Mr. Gurney pronounces a typical specimen. It is the 

 one referred to by Mr. Layard (This, 1878, p. 252). 

 3. Urospizias approximans (V. & H.). 

 Three specimens from New Caledonia, all marked female. 

 One in very full adult plumage, with close and rich transverse 

 barrings on all the lower surface, the upper surface very dark 

 and uniform ; the barrings on the rectrices almost oblite- 



