from Bugotu, Soloman Islands. 375 



specimen is suffused with pink, as noticed by Mr. Grant in 

 some instances in the other species. 



9. MiNO KREFFTI (Sclat.). 



Native name " Kikiloa/^ 



10. Calornis maxima, sp. nov. 



C. corpore toto nigro : capite et collo purpureo-nitentibus, 

 plumis colli, interscapulii, et pectoris lanceulatis : tergo 

 toto, tectricibus remigum, et cauda nitore raetallico viridi 

 resplendentibus : rcmigibus pallide fuscis, nee basin 

 versus uigricantibus, pogonio externo pallidioribus : rec- 

 tricibus nigerrimis : rostro et pedibus nigris. Long. 

 tot, 12'6 poll., alfe 6*5, caudae 4*75^ rostii a rictu 1"1, 

 tarsi l"o5. 

 Native name " Cheu.'^ 



This is certainly the giant of the group, its dimensions 

 considerably exceeding those o^ Ap/onis airifu^ca from Samoa. 

 Its bill is proportionately more massive than that of any other 

 species. In its geneial coloration, especially in the purple 

 gloss of the head and neck and in the black tail, it generally 

 resembles C. magna, but the wings are a very much paler brown 

 than in that species, or in the still more diminutive Sturnoides 

 minor of Ramsay, in Avhich the tail as well as the wings is 

 brown. It is remarkable that both this giant representative 

 of the Sturuidae and the giant Macrocorax vegetus should as 

 yet have been found only on the little island of Bugotu, 

 while represented in the islands on either side of it by smaller 

 species. 



I may here notice an extraordinary oversight on the part 

 of Dr. Sharpe. In Cat. Birds, vol. xiii. p. 142, he gives 

 Calornis minor (Bp. ex JNIiill. Mus. Lugd.), the well-known 

 Timor species, as No. 4 of the genus, and immediately after- 

 wards (p. 151) he repeats Calornis minor (Ramsay) as No. 10 

 of the same genus ! The error is repeated in the Systematic 

 Index, p. X. There is also an error in Dr. Sharpens reference 

 to Salvadori, '' Oru. Pap. iii. p. 500," where we should read 

 " 550.^^ But Salvadori retains Mviller^s name, Calornis minor, 

 for the Timor species, assigning the Solomon Island species 

 to his genus Lamprocorax with a query. Dr. Sharpe also 



