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surements, but not in coloration, it approaches closely to the 

 description of N. jacquinoti from the Solomon Islands. 



24. HaLIAETUS LEUCOGASTER (Gm.). 



One specimen. 



25. Tadorna radjah, Garn. 



One specimen. Fergusson Island. 



26. Ptilopus sTROPHiuM, Gould. 



Two males. East Island and Rossel Island, 



27. Carpophaga spilorrhoa, Gray. 

 One specimen. St. Aignau's Island. 



28. Chalcophaps chrysochlora, Gould. 

 One specimen. East Island. 



29. Calcenas nicobarica (L.). 

 One specimen. Normanby Island. 



30. Macropygia carteretia, Bp. Consp. ii. p. 57. 

 One specimen. St. Aignan''s Island. 



31. Macropygia cinereiceps, sp. nov. 

 One specimen. Fergusson Island. 



M. corpore superne cinnamomeo ; capite cinereo ; nucha 

 viridi resplendente ; mento albicante ; pectore rufo- 

 cinnamomeo ; abdomine albidiore ; subcaudalibus Isete 

 castaneis ; remigibus brunneis castaneo marginatis ; 

 Cauda castanea; rectricibus tribus externis fascia lata 

 nigricante in medio cinctis. 

 The ash-coloured head sufficiently marks this species, the 

 type of which is evidently fully adult. There is a single ex- 

 ample of the same bird in the British Museum unnamed : it 

 was obtained by Mr. H. O. Forbes on the S.E. coast of New 

 Guinea, so that the species probably has a range of some 

 extent. 



32. Charadrius iulvus, Gm. 

 One specimen. Rossel Island. 



33. HiMANTOPUS LEUCOCEPHALUS, Gould, 



One specimen. Fergusson Island. 



