348 Dr. R. B. Sliarpe on Birds 



No. 05. ? ad. Amhryn, June 2fi, 1899. 



Dr. Forbes lias kindly sent me the type of Mr. Layard'fj 

 A. rufipennis, which, unlike the majority of the Layardian 

 types, is not in the Britisii Museum, but in the Tristram 

 Collection in the Liverpool Museum. It is a specimen sent 

 from Vate in alcohol, and the birds from Amhryn and 

 Espiritu Santo are evidently identical. It seems to me to 

 be tliis same bird which is figured in the " Voyage of the 

 'Astrolabe''^ as Lamprotornis zelandica (pi. 9. fig. 1). 



In 'The Ibis' for 1894 (p. 31) Canon Tristram has 

 recorded A. r iifi p ennis ivoxn Santa Cruz Island; but I find 

 that the two specimens from that island in the Tristram 

 Collection, lent me by Dr. Forbes, really belong to a different 

 species. Having drawn the attention of Dr. Forbes to this 

 fact, I am glad to say that he agrees with me as to their dis- 

 tinctness, and has described the Santa Cruz species as 



A. maxwelli (Bull. I.iverp. Mus. ii. p. 116.). 



Ptilopus greyi Bp. ; Wiglosw. t. c. p. 263; Salvad. Cat. 



B. Brit. Mus.xxi. p. 85 (1893) ; Sharpe, Hand-1. B. i. p. 56 

 (1899). 



No. 5. Juv. Sandwicli Bay, MallicoUo, May 12, 1899.— Bill 

 green ; feet pink ; iris golden. 



No. 15. S ad. Sandwich Bay, May 17, 1899.— Bill apple- 

 green ; feet dusky pink ; iris dark with golden ring. 



No. 27. S 'id. MallicoUo, May 19, 1890.— Feet dirty purple- 

 red. 



No. 52. ? imm. Fila, Efate [Vate], June 15, 1899.— Bill 

 green ; feet dirty brownish pink; iris golden. 



No. 104. (S juv. Terebin, Big Bay, Espiritu Santo, Sept. 7, 

 1899. 



No. 118. ? ? ad. Hoy Head, Espiritu Santo, Sept. 18, 

 1899. No. 118. ? ad.— Bill dark apple-green. Stomach 

 full of small seeds. 



Sylph iTRERON tannexsis (Lath.) ; Sharpe_, Iland-l. B. i. 

 p. 59 (1899). 



Ptilopus tannensis Wiglesw. t. c. p. 247 ; Salvad. Cat. B. 

 Brit. Mus. xxi. p. 127 (1893). 



