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islandj especially as we have examples of the former from 

 the Rewa River, on the same side of the island as the alleged 

 locality of the latter ; butj on the other hand, it cannot be 

 denied that in every other case where the Doctor has differed 

 in opinion from the Consul, a careful examination of the 

 facts has proved that the Consul is right and the Doctor 

 is wrong. 



If we regard Pachycephala intermedia as an apocryphal 

 species, there still remain six others which inhabit the Fiji 

 Islands, but no two of them have ever been found on the 

 same island. Their distribution is as follows : — 



P. graeffii Viti Levu. 



P. aurantiiventris Vanua Levu. 



P. neglecta Ovalau. 



P. torquata Taviuni. 



P. kandavensis Kandavu. 



P. vitiensis Ngau. 



In all these species the crown is black, the back is olive- 

 green, and the lower breast and belly are yellow. The 

 principal characters in which they vary are : — (a) the colour of 

 the tail-feathers, which are olive in some species and nearly 

 black in others ; (6) in the colour of the throat, which is 

 white in some species and yellow in others ; (c) in the black 

 pectoral collar below the throat, which is conplete in some 

 species, nearly complete in others, and nearly or quite 

 obsolete in others ; {d) in the yellow supraloral stripe, which 

 is very large and conspicuous in some species, and obsolete 

 or nearly so in others ; and (e) in the tint of the yellow of the 

 underparts, which is lemon-yellow in some species and 

 orange-yellow in others. These characters serve to diagnose 

 the males of these six species as follows : — 



graefii 1 a very conspicuous yel- 



Yellow of underparts Yurantiiventris . .\ low supra oral patch, 

 suffused with orange. | ^^,.^„^^^. 



neglecta. 



( vitiensis. 

 Throat white 



kandavensis .... Tail olive. 



