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very small; the inner webs of the secon- 

 daries blackish, narrowly margined and 

 tipped with dull white : culm. 0-8 to 0-9, 

 wing 4-2 to 4-4, tail 4-G to o-O, tarsus ri5 



to 1-2 inch (3) X. meridionalis. 



c. Upper parts rather dark grey, but much paler 

 than in L. algeriensis ; underparts white, 

 washed with grey ; a somewhat indistinct 

 white superciliary stripe ; black frontal line 

 very narrow or obsolete; alar patch usually 

 rather small ; inner webs of the secon- 

 daries chiefly blackish : culm. 0*75 to OO, 

 wing 3-8 to 4'3, tail 4-1 to 4-3, tarsus 1-15 



to l-2o inch (4) L.fallax. 



C. Lesser wing-coverts entirely grey ; upper parts 



pale grey, underparts white ; alar patch usually 



large ; frontal band usually very narrow or 



absent ; secondaries with the inner webs 



chiefly white : culm. 0'73 to 0'8, wing 4"1 



to 4-3, tail 4-0 to 4*5, tarsus M2 to 1-25 



inch (5) L. elegmis. 



XXIII. — On two small Collections of Birds from Bugotu and 

 Florida, two of the smaller Solomon Islands. By H. B. 

 Tristram, D.D., F.R.S. 



During the course of last year I received from my friend 

 Dr. P. H. Metcalfe, of Norfolk Island, two small but very- 

 interesting collections of birds which had been made for me 

 by two gentlemen of the Melanesia!! Mission during their 

 visits to two of the smaller islands of the Solomon group — 

 Bugotu and Florida. 



Bugotu is a small island lying a little to the south of 

 Ysabel, and Florida is in the channel between Guadalcanar 

 and Malayta. The avifauna of both of them would naturally 

 be closely allied to that of Ysabel ; but, as the list shows, 

 there are several species in the series which have not been as 

 yet reported from Ysabel, and three forms in Bugotu which 

 do not appear to have been previously described. 



For the collection from Bugotu I am indebted to the 



