Mr. E. E. Layard on a new Fhj catcher. 435 



I propose to call this pretty Flycatcher Myiagra azureoca- 

 pilla, from the lengthened azure-coloured feathers on the top 

 of the head. It was first obtained by Mr. Liardet^ in the 

 north of the island Taviuni in this group^ and near the same 

 locality by my son^ Mr. Leopold Layard. The latter informs 

 me that they frequent the forest^ perching on the lower trees. 

 He never found them in the low country, but at an elevation 

 of 600 or 800 feet. This is all covered with forest. They 

 feed on insects, in search of which they were very restless 

 and active. They were sometimes in pairs, at others so- 

 litary. 



Lamprolia victoria, F. & H. 



Mr. L. Layard, who obtained several specimens of this sin- 

 gular bird, informs me that it creeps about in the lower growth 

 of the thick saplings, and among the pendent thin lianas 

 and vines in the very thick forest in the same locality as the 

 Myiagra azureocapilla. Occasionally they descend to the 

 ground and peck among the fallen leaves. When disturbed 

 they flit among the lianas, at no great height, say 20 feet 

 from the gi'ound. He only saw one upon a tall tree. When 

 chasing each other he heard them utter a sharp shrill twitter ; 

 at other times they were silent. Their food he found to 

 consist entirely of small beetles. Bill and legs black, iris 

 dark horn. 



Chryscena victor, Gould. 



In the same locality he procured the '' Orange Dove,^^ and 

 found, as I predicted, that the female and young male were 

 green. The latter may be distinguished at any time from 

 the female by the orange tinge on the head and plumage 

 generally, and the deeper orange of the vent and under tail- 

 coverts. Some of the settlers informed him that they had 

 found young birds, fallen from the nest, entirely green. He 

 also shot the full-plumaged orange male in amorous chase 

 after the green female. They were in such a state of fat 

 that he used the cuttings to grease his gun-barrel to keep it 

 from rust. 



He mentions seeing numbers of a small species of Parrot, 



