from the Solomon Islands. 145 



I have not included in the above hst specimens only- 

 recorded from Banks's Island. 



I have omitted species Avhich seem to have been mistaken 

 for others already enumerated ; and I have put a point of 

 doubt after the names of those species the identification of 

 which does not appear to me to be satisfactory. I think 

 it probable^ so far as one can form an opinion witliout having 

 seen the type^ that Ninox imnctulata is represented by the 

 species which precedes it. 



I have not seen the type of Myzomela tristrami, which 

 Mr. Ramsay has done me the honour to name after me ; but 

 I can assure him that my specimen of M. pammel(sna, still in 

 my cabinet^ has the bill glossy blacky and is evidently an 

 adult bird. 



Rhipidura cockerelli has been questioned by Prof. Salvadori 

 as being only an accidental variety of R. tricolor. I have not 

 seen the type. 



Graucalus hypoleucus is questioned by Prof. Salvadori, who 

 considers that the species must be G. sclateri. He also 

 demurs to the Philippine species G. dusswnieri being found 

 here, and suggests, with much probability, that the species, 

 the name of which Mr. Ramsay subsequently (Pr. Linn. Soc. 

 N. S.W. 1879, p. 314) changed from G. pusillus to G. salo- 

 monensis, is really the bird intended. Prof. Salvadori believes 

 it to be identical with G. sublineatus. As I have not seen 

 Mr. Ramsay^s types, I can offer no opinion. 



As stated above, the locality of Nasiterna pusio seems to 

 me to require confirmation. 



Ptilopus viridis. — The description given by Mr. Ramsay 

 scarcely corresponds with the New-Guinea bird, though not 

 far from it. It is probably a distinct species, and may be so 

 described by Mr. Ramsay when he has had an opportunity of 

 comparing his bird with specimens of P. geelvinkianus and 

 P. viridis. I can conceive an immature male of P. eugenics 

 meeting his description. 



Ptilopus solomonensis , G. R. Gr., cannot stand as a species. 

 It rests on a female which may belong to any one of three 



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