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hatching them. All the places which I saw had already beeu 

 rifled, so I was uaable to make any observations as to the 

 position of the eggs. I obtained two good specimens of a bril- 

 liant little Kingfisher, which has since been named HftJcyoii 

 farquhari (supra, p. 339, PI. VII.), and two of a new Caco- 

 mantis, since named C. schistaceigularis. One of the officers 

 had shot a bird of this species on a former visit to Hog 

 Harbour, so luckily I was able to show the skin to my native 

 hunter, who, knowing the whistle of the bird in the forest, 

 led me to these two. Here I first became aware that 

 Pachycephala chlorura and Eopsaltria cucuUata are cock and 

 hen, or, as my native called them, " man-bird " and " woman- 

 bird," of the same species, now named Pachycephala intacta. 

 He brought me also their n^st and eggs, three in number, 

 of a red cream-colour, with dark brown and faint grey 

 markings: 2 5x2 centimetres. The nest was made of 

 rootlets and vine-tendrils, slightly bound together with 

 spiders^ web, and had an inside diameter of 2^ inches, an 

 outside diameter of 3| inches, an inside depth of If inches, 

 outside 2^ inches. It was placed on a low tree. I also got 

 the eggs of Chalcophaps chrysochlora, which were of a cream- 

 white : 2*8x2'l centimetres. The nest was the usual plat- 

 form of slight twigs, about 12 feet from the ground. While 

 here I came across the nest and young of Colocalia uropygialis. 

 The nests w^ere like very shallow half-saucers of green moss 

 stuck against the side of a huge coral erratic in the middle 

 of the forest. All the eggs were hatched out, but I saw 

 pure white fragments of the egg-shells lying at the base of 

 the rock. 



1 spent a day or two in the Banks Islands, which are 

 practically a northern continuation of the New Hebrides, 

 from which they can be seen on a clear day. Oddly enough, 

 a totally different species of Glyciphila (G. notabilis) inhabits 

 this group, or at any rate VanuaLava, the largest of its islands. 

 It seemed quite common, as was also Hijpocharmosyna pal- 

 niarum, which had paired and was feeding in the flowering 

 trees, especially among the blossoms of the custard-apple. 

 Unfortunately my visit to this group was a very short one, 

 and I was only able to land once for collecting purposes. 



