264 Mr, J. H. Gurney on some Haioks of the 



Middle 

 Wing. Tarsus. toe s. u. 



Females. inches. inches. inches. 



East Timor (British Museum, 



$ according to Mr. Wallace) 10 2-60 1-64 



Ditto, ditto 9-50 2-80 1-G5 



Ditto, ditto 9-50 2-65 1-50 



Ditto, ditto 10-60 2-50 1-65 



East Timor (Norwich Museum, 



2 according to Mr. Wallace) 9-50 2-30 1-40 



East Timor (Norwich Museum) 10-20 2-60 1-60 



Yule Island (Norwich Museum, 



$ according to Sig.d'Albertis) 10-30 2-50 1-60 



Port Moresby, New Guinea 



(Norwich Museum) 10-40 2-60 1-60 



New Ireland (5 according to 



the Rev. G. Brown) 9-50 2-40 1-50 



Aneiteum, New Hebrides (in 



collection of Canon Tristram) 9-80 2-40 1-40 



The specimen from Aneiteum, above referred to, was kindly 

 lent to me by Canon Tristram, who has mentioned it already 

 in ' The Ibis ' [supra, p. 136) . Allowing for individual varia- 

 tions of tint, to which, as I have previously observed, this 

 species is liable, I do not think that this example, the only 

 one I have seen from the New Hebrides, is separable from 

 those which I have examined from New Guinea. 



The only specimen I have seen from the New-Britain 

 group is that from New Ireland recorded in the P. Z. S. for 

 1879, p. 447, by Dr. Sclater, who recently was so good as to 

 lend it to me. On comparing it with adult specimens from 

 New Guinea and with Canon Tristram^s Aneiteum 1)ird, which 

 is also adult, I observed the following differences, due, I have 

 no doubt, to the New-Ireland specimen's not having fully, 

 although very nearly, attained its adult livery: — It has the 

 transverse bars on the breast browner and less rufous, and 

 they are also not quite so well defined, showing slight central 

 prolongations downwards along the sliafts of the feathers ; the 

 thighs are rufous, with the bars of a darker rufous, but some- 

 what irregular and ill-defined ; the interspaces between the 

 cross bars on the under wing-coverts are much tinged with 



