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CoRVUS (?) TROPICUS. 



Tropic Crow, Lath. Gen. Syn. i. p. 384. 



Corvus tropicus, Gmel. S. N. i. p. 372. 



Cracticus ater, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. v. p. 356. 



Sandwich Islands (Owhyhee). 



Note. — "An Corvus parvus remigibus caeruleis a el. Cook in Nova 

 Caledonia observatur ? " — Wayl. Syst. Av. under Pica, sp. 9 ; Cook's 

 Voy. ii. p. 124. 



The following bird has been recorded as from New Caledonia, 

 viz. : — 



Caledonian Crow, Lath. Gen. Syn. Suppl. ii. p. 116. 



Corvus caledonicus, Lath. Ind. Orn. Suppl. p. xxv ; Labill. Voy. 

 Atlas, t. 39. 



Pica albicollis, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxvi. p. 128. 



Streptocitta caledonica, Pr. B. Consp. Av. i. p. 382. 



It may be remarked that the specimens in the British Museum 

 which agree with the description of the above-mentioned species 

 are from Celebes, while Lesson states that this bird was obtained at 

 the Island of Vanikoro by Quoy and Gaimard. The British Museum 

 also contains the specimen from which Temminck gave his figure 

 in PI. Col. 444, under the name of Garrula torquata. This bird 

 differs by its entirely black bill, the steel-blue glossiness of the plu- 

 mage, the dull purple reflexion on the head, and the tail being rather 

 shorter. 



Sturnid^e. 



Chlamydera (Sturnoides) gigas. 



Sturnoides ffiffas, Homb.&Jacq.Voy. au P61eSud,i.p.84. t.l5.f.2. 



Samoan or Navigators' Islands. 



Calornis (Lamprocorax) fulvipennis. 



Lamprotornis fulvipennis, Homb. & Jacq. Voy. au Pole Sud, i. 

 p. 81.. t. 14. f. 2. 



Lamprocorax fulvipennis, Pr. B. Compt. Rend. 1853, p. . 

 Solomon Islands (S ta Ysabel). 



Calornis (Lamprocorax?) corvina. B.M. 



Lamprotornis corvina, Kittl. Mem. Ac. de St. Petersb. 1835, p. 7. 

 t. 19; id. Kupf.Voy. t. 15. f. 3. 



Calornis corvina, G. R. Gray, Gen. of B. App. p. 15. 

 Caroline Islands (Oualau). 



Calornis pacifica. 



Pacific Shrike, Lath. -Gen. Syn. i. p. 164. 



Lanius pacificus, Gmel. S. N. i. p. 306. 



Calornis corvina, pt., Cass. U. S. Expl. Exped. 1858, p. 124 (?). 



One of the islands in the South Seas. 



