On a new Thrush from the Loyalty Islands. 471 



The Norwich Museum have also acquired two specimens 

 of Scojis lempiji, which were received by Mr. Whitely from 

 Sumatra, and which are larger than those from other localities 

 in the same collection, as will be seen by the following mea- 

 surements of examples which (with one exception) are all 

 preserved in the Norwich Museum : — 



Middle 

 Wing. Tarsus. toe, s. u. 



inches. inch. inch. 



Six from Malacca, Penaiig, 



and Singapore O-50-6-60 1-10-1-50 •70--90 



Three from Borneo 570 1-30 ^O-'SO 



One (female) from Java . . 5-70 1-20 -70 



First Sumatra specimen . . 6-90 1-50 I'O 



Second ditto 7-10 1-60 1-10 



The two Sumatran specimens are also more thickly plumed 

 on the tarsus and at the base of the toes than any of the 

 others ; in coloration they exhibit a medium intensity of tint 

 between the lightest and darkest examples in the Norwich 

 Museum, but I do not perceive in them any peculiarities of 

 marking. 



XLVI. — On a new Thrush from the Loyalty Islands Group. 

 By E. L. Layard, C.M.G. &c., and H. B. Tristram, F.R.S. 



In our previous paper on the birds of the Loyalty Islands 

 (Ibis, 1878, p. -254) we mentioned that a Mare lad in the 

 service of Mr. W., of Chephenche, Leopold Layard^s kind 

 host during his residence on Lifu, affirmed, when giving the 

 Mare name of the new blackbird [Turdus pritzhueri, L. & T.), 

 that the Mare bird differed from that species, and was " all 

 black. ^^ The lad was so persistent and precise in his state- 

 ment, that E. L. L. lost no time in writing to a friend on the 

 last-named island, requesting him to do his utmost to send 

 him a specimen in alcohol, as he knew no one on the island 

 could skin it. 



On the 3rd of June last he had the pleasure of receiving 

 from his friend a neatly packed basket of cocoanut-leaf, from 

 which he abstracted a bottle, snugly embedded in fern-leaves. 



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