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remained unascertained until a single specimen was sent 

 home last year by Lieut, E-icliards. The present collection 

 contains several specimens, one of them a female, now in the 

 British Museum. The general colour of the female is dull, 

 not glossy, black, as in the male, and the chestnut of the 

 underparts is not so bright. 

 Hub. San Christoval. 



12. PoMAREA UGiENSis, Ramsay. 



Pomarea u(/iensis, Ramsay, Journ. Proc. Linn. Soc. Nov. 

 1881. 



Hab. Ugi Island. 



This fine species, apparently the representative of the genus 

 in Ugi, as P. castaneiventris is in the neighbouring island of 

 San Christoval, is the largest of the group, and of a uniform 

 glossy resplendent black. There is no distinction between 

 the sexes in plumage, a striking contrast to the extraordinary 

 difference of the sexes in the third species of the genus, 

 P. nicjra, of the Society and Marquesas Islands. 



13. Pomarea richardsi. 



Piezarhynchus 7'ichardsii, Ramsay, Journ, Linn. Soc. N, S. 

 Wales, Feb, 1881. 



Hab. Rendova Island. 



This brilliant bird is certainly a typical Pomarea, and in 

 measurements and general form comes extremely close to P. 

 castaneiventris. It has the same chestnut lower parts ; but the 

 occiput, nape, hind neck, and ring round the eye are of a 

 pure white, in stroug contrast with the rest of its plumage. 



14. PlEZORHYNCHUS SQUAMULATUS, Sp. UOV, 



(J . P. capite nigro resplendente, fascia alba circum collum a 

 latere thoracis ; dorso nigro ; uropygio late albo ; Cauda 

 nigra, rectricibus tribus externis albo terminatis ; tectri- 

 cibus superioribus medialiter nigris, macula alba ad 

 apicem nigro marginata instructis ; tectricibus majoribus 

 albis, nigro marginatis in pogonio externo, duas fascias 

 albas ostendentibus ; i^emigibus nigris, duabus maculis 

 albis ad extremura secundariorum ; niento et thorace 

 nigris, fascia pectorali quasi squamosa, plumis ad basin 

 nigris macula alba tetragona nigro marginata ; pectore^ 



