» 1877.] BIRDS OF TONGATABU, FIJI, ETC. 735 



No. 75. Levuka. Male. " Eyes black." Shot July .30. 



76. „ „ 



101. Kandavu. Male. Shot Angust 6. 



102. „ Female. „ 



114. ,, 



115. „ Male. 



I am surprised to find the specimen No. 101 marked " male;" 

 for it agrees with No. 114, marked "female," whereas the female, 

 No. 102, shows the very different plumage of the black-throated 

 males. If these statements are based on dissection, they would 

 tend to prove a uniformity of both sexes — a fact very strange, and 

 opposite to all we know at present of the members of this genus. 



This species is confined to the Fijis, and does not occur on the 

 Navigators', as stated wrongly in our ' Polynesian Ornithology.' The 

 specimens described by us from Samoa were wrongly labelled. 

 The representative species in the latter islands is M. albiventris, 

 Peale (= M. rufiventris, Elliot, Ibis, 1859, p. 393). 



17. Pachycephala vitiensis. Gray. 



Pachycephala vitiensis, Lajard, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 433, et Ibis, 

 1876, p. 154. 



No. 69. Kandavu. Female. *• Eyes red." July 24. 



82. ,, „ " Eyes hazel ; legs a bluish tinge ; 



bill brown. Shot August 5." 



Without having male specimens also on hand it is not possible to 

 determine these specimens satisfactorily, as there has arisen a great 

 confusion since Mr. Layard pointed out the existence of 5 or 6 

 species in the Fijis. As the specimens are collected in Kandavu 

 they ought to be " P. vitiensis," which, according to Mr. Layard, is 

 confined to this island ; and, judging from Mr. Gray's short descrip- 

 tion, they would belong to this species. But I may mention that 

 the female specimen described and figured by us s. n. P. vitiensis 

 (Orn. Central-Polyn. p. 7'6, t. viii. f. 3), apparently belongs to the 

 species described since as P. torquata, Layard (P. Z. S. 1875, 

 p. 4»3). 



18. Lalage MACULOSA (Peale). 

 No. 49. Matuka. Female. 



50. „ „ 



113. Kandavu. Male. "Eyes hazel; bill blackish; legs a 

 greenish tinge." 



On this species see above, p. 724. 



19. Aplonis vitiensis, Layard. 



Aplonis vitiensis, Layard, P. Z. S. 1876. p. 502. 

 A. tabuensis, F. & Hartl. (nee Gm.), Ornithol. Central-Polyn. 

 p. 103, t. X. f. 2. 



No. 41. Matuka. Male. 



42. „ Female. 



" Eyes dark red or brown. This is the same bird as Nos. 8, 9, 



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