3(58 Count T. Salvadori on a 



specimen in question for inspection, and in my paper on the 

 Birds of Prince's Island* I have already stated that the 

 supposed H. principalis of the Liverpool Museum is totally 

 different from the bird of Prince's Island, of which I had 

 before me four specimens collected by Signor L. Fea in that 

 inland. 



Dr. Forbes very generously gave me permission to describe 

 the specimen from Prince's Island, in case I should find that 

 it belonged to a new species, as I hinted to him. Want of 

 time, however, has hitherto prevented me, engaged as I was 

 on other work, from publishing the results of my enquiries 

 about this interesting bird, which I now name and describe 

 as a new species. 



Haplopella forbesi, sp. nov. 



Supra umbrino-brunnea, sincipite cinerascente ; eollo 

 postico viridi micante, pro adjectu lucis purpurascente ; 

 collo antico (gula alba excepta) pectoreque brunnco- 

 rufescentibus, obsolete viridi micantibus ; lateribus 

 brunneis, abdomine medio et subcaudalibus albis ; eauda 

 brunnea, rectricibus mediis concoloribus, lateralibus 

 fascia apicali latmscula albida ornatis ; pedibus in 

 exuvie pallidis, rostro fusco. Long. tot. circa 230 mm. ; 

 al. 120; caud. 93; rostri culm. 14 ; tarsi 26. 

 The type specimen, which appears to be fully adult, had 



evidently been kept in confinement, as it has the tail-feathers, 



except the middle pair, much worn at the tips f- 



About this specimen Dr. Forbes and Mr. Robinson have 



made several statements, which require some comments : — ■ 



(1) They say that the specimen has been " identified at 

 the British Museum." 1 do not quite understand the 

 meaning of this statement, as, to my knowledge, H. princi- 

 palis was not represented in the British Museum at the time 

 of the publication of the ' Catalogue of the Pigeons ' — and is, 

 perhaps, still wanting there. I suppose, however, that the 

 statemeut refers to the identification having been made with 

 the help of the ornithologists of the British Museum. 



(2) Dr. Forbes and Mr. Robinson say that in the original 



* Mem. E. Ac Sci. Tor. (2) liii. p. 13 (1903). 



t The label attached to the specimen reads as follows: — " Interior of 

 Cayenne (Leadbeater, Sept., 1844). Length 9g in., extent 17 in." 



