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"Shot July 20; eyes black. These birds were in considerable 

 numbers near the houses of the natives." — J. M. 

 No. 23. Tongatabu. Female. 

 24. „ Male. 



27. „ Female. 



28. „ Male. 

 " Shot July 21." 

 No. 27 (female) has a pure white superciliary stripe ; in the other 



specimens this is washed more or less with cinnamon-rusty, very 

 strongly and broadly in No. 4 (female). Nos. 2, 3, and 4 show 

 narrow rusty margins to the upper wing-coverts, which seem not 

 peculiar to the young birds. That both sexes are precisely alike, I 

 can state from dissection of specimens in alcohol. Generally Tonga 

 specimens show a more greenish tinge on the back ; but in some 

 specimens (as 5, male, 23, female, and 24, male) the blue is as dark 

 and pronounced as in Fiji specimens, and in some of the latter (as 

 95, male and 61, male) as greenish as in Tonga specimens. The 

 under wing-coverts and sides in the Tonga bird are mostly pure 

 white ; but Nos. 3 and 4 show a rusty tinge. 



3. Ptilotis carunculata (Gm.). 



Ptilotis carunculata.F. & S.. Ornith.Central-Polyn. p. 58; P.Z. S. 

 1869, p. 545 (Tonga); Journ. f. Oru. 1870, p. 125 (Tonga); 

 Graffe, ib. p. 404 (habits); Layard, P. Z. S. 1876, p. 501 (Tonga). 

 No. 12. Tongatabu. Male. 

 13. „ Male. 



\J( * 14. „ Female. 



15. „ Female. 



" Shot July 20. These are the most abundant birds on the 

 island. They have a very clear bell-like note. Eyes black ; wattle 

 yellow."—/. M. 



4. Lalage maculosa (Peale). 



Colluricincla maculosa, Peale, U.S. Expl. Exped. 1st edit. (1848), 

 p. 81, pi. 23. f. 10. 



Lalage terat, Cass, (ncc Bodd.), ibid. 2nd edit. (1858), p. 143; 

 F. & H. Ornith. Central-Polyn. p. 80; P. Z. S. 1869, p. 546 (Tonga); 

 Journ. f. Orn. 1870, p. 149 (Tonga); Finsch, ibid. 1872, p. 41 

 (Samoa) ; Layard, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 433 (Fiji), 1876, p. 494 (Navi- 

 gators') and p. 502 (Tonga). 



Campephaga maculosa. Gray, Hand-1. i. p. 339. no. 5124. 



No. 16. Tongatabu. Male. 

 17. „ Male. 



" Eyes white. Common on the island ; shot July 20." 



No. 29. Tongatabu. Female. " Shot July 21." 

 32. „ Male. 



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