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Totai length, H^ inches ; bill, lį ; wing, 7| ; tail, 7 į ; tarsi, 1. 



Hab. Guadalcanar Island. 



Remark, — This is a smaller bird than the Australian Macropygia 

 phasianella, has a much thicker bill, and a shorter tail, vvhich organ 

 is moreover of a graduated forai. 



A fine Lory from San Cristoval was named 



LORIUS CHLOROCERCUS. 



Head, nape, and a patch on each side the neck black ; plumage 

 of the whole of the body fine scarlet, with a broad crescentic mark 

 of rich yellow across the breast ; tip of the shoulder silvery blue ; 

 wing-coverts yellowish green ; outer webs of the primaries aud se- 

 condaries dark grass-green ; inner webs duU black, with a broad 

 obloug mark of scarlet along their basai portions ; basai half of the 

 tail scarlet, the remainder grass-green ; under wing-coverts and 

 thighs fine blue ; bill orange ; feet dark brown. 



Totai length, 10 inches ; bill, | ; wing, 6 f ; tail, A\ ; tarsi, f. 



Hab. San Cristoval. 



Remark. — This is one of the most beautiful species of the genus, 

 and difiers from all its congeners in havong the apical half of the tail 

 green. 



A new Hirundo from Moala, one of the Feejee Islands, was cha- 

 racterized as 



Hirundo subfusca. 



Forehead, chin and throat rufous ; crown of the head, all the 

 upper surface, wing- and tail-coverts steel black ; wings and tail dark 

 brown ; under surface of the body and under wing-coverts dark fus- 

 cous ; under tail-coverts steel black, margined with light brown. 



Totai length, 5 inches ; bill, ^ ; wing, 4į ; tail, 2 ; tarsi, \. 



Remark. — This is a very remarkable Swallow, resembling in the 

 colouring of its back, throat and forehead the common Swallow of 

 Europe ; it is also very sirailar in size, while it has a much larger 

 bill and a very diminutive and but slightly forked tail, the outer 

 feathers not beiug produced as in the European bird. 



The five birds above described are now deposited in the collection 

 at the British Museum. 



Mr. Gould also described a new and very beautifiil Pigeon from 

 the Solomon Islands as 



lOTRERON EUGENI.E. 



Crown of the head, cheeks, upper part of the throat and ear- 

 coverts white ; centre of the throat and chest of the richest crimson ; 

 upper surface and wings green washed with orange ; along the 

 shoulder a mark of light grey, and a large spot of grey near the tip 

 of each of the tertiaries ; primaries dark slate grey tipped with 

 orange-brown ; sccondaries slate grey bordered with orange-browū, 

 and with a very narrow edge of yellow along the apical portion of 



