672 ON BIRDS FROM THE DUKE-OF-YORK ISLANDS. [June 18, 



7. Monarcha inornatus (Garnot) ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1877, p. 552. 



This bird has not occurred in the former collections of Mr. Brown, 

 bnt is a well-known and rather widely extended Papuan species. 



15. Buceros ruficollis, Vieill. ; Temm. PI. Col. 577; Scl. 

 P. Z. S. 1869, p. 122. 



Apparently an adult female of this Hornbill from Spacious Bay, 

 New Britain. 



20. Geoffroius heteroclittjs. 



Psittacus heteroclitus, Hombr. et Jacq. Ann. Sc. Nat. xvi. p. 319. 

 Pionus heteroclitus, id. Voy. au P. S. Atl. t. 25 bis (6*)- 

 Pione heteroclitus, Puch. ibid. Zool. iii. p. 103. 



A fine male of this species from New Ireland agrees with the ori- 

 ginal figure and description of that sex. One of the Solomon-Islands 

 skins referred to, P. Z. S. 1869, p. 122, appears to be the female of 

 this species, the other to belong to the next. 



21. Geoffroius cyaniceps, Pucheran. 



A skin from New Britain marked " male," which has had the 

 wings cut away, and has apparently been in a cage, is probably of 

 the same species as that previously referred (P. Z. S. 1877, p. 107) 

 to Geoffroius cyaniceps. This is decidedly smaller than G. hetero- 

 clitus, and has the top of the head of a pale greenish grey with the 

 sides yellowish. 



Dr. Salvadori, who examined the specimen in the previous col- 

 lection of Mr. Brown, remarks that it comes very near the female of 

 G. simplex, Midler. A better series of this bird is necessary before 

 it can be made out decidedly. 



25. Carpophaga melanochroa, sp. nov. (Plate XLII.) 



Nigricanti-ardesiaca fere unicolor, alis cauda et dorso inferiore 

 in plumb eum transeuntibus ; alarum tectricibus omnibus margi- 

 nibus angustissimis albis prceditis ; subalaribus et crisso castaneo 

 tinctis ; rostro nigro ; pedibus purpureo-rubris. 



Long, tota 15-5, alse 9'5, caudse rectr. med. 6 - 0, ext. 5 "5. 



Hab. Ins. Duke of York. 



This fine Fruit-pigeon is quite new to me, and, I believe, unde- 

 scribed, though I am not acquainted with C. pistrinaria, Bp. 1 , of the 

 Solomon Islands, to the neighbourhood of which it would appear to 

 belong. 



Mr. Brown's single specimen is marked "male; eyes bright 

 scarlet; legs purple." As will be seen from the measurements, the 

 tail is slightly rounded ; there are fourteen rectrices, as is always, 

 I believe, the case in Carpophaga. The under-surface of the tail is 

 rather ashy white, that of the wings greyish black. 



The uniform dark colour, varied only by the very narrow margins 

 of the wing-coverts, will render this species easily recognizable. 



1 Consp. Av. ii. p. 36. 



