1879.] DUKE-OF-YORK ISLAND AND NEW BRITAIN. 13 



a whitish-rusty ground-colour, more tinged witli rusty on the lower 

 throat and under tail-coverts, with distinct black cross bauds much 

 narrower than the white interspaces. Bill in both sexes greyish horn- 

 yellow, with base of upper jaw dark. 



27. SCYTHROPS NOV^-HOLLANDI^, Lath. 



Native name Guloko, Hiibner. 



Male and female. Not recorded by Dr. Sclater. 



28. CEdirhinus insolitus, Schleg. ; Scl. /. c. p. 110. 



(Edirhinus ylobifer, Cab. et Rchnw. Journ, f. Ornithol. 1877 

 tab. iv. ' 



Native name Tambun, Hiibner. 



Male and female of this remarkable Pigeon, both alike, and with 

 the curious Carpophaga-Wke knob on front ; the male has the chin 

 tinged faintly with bluish green. 



29. Carpophaga rhodinol^ma, Scl.* (?) 



Native name Gurckambu, Hiibner. 



Male and female, precisely alike. 



Dr. Sclater enumerates from Duke-of-York Island C. van-wyckii, 

 Cass. The only description of it (Proc. Acad. Sci. Philad. xiv. 1862, 

 p. 320) I cannot refer to, this periodical being wanting in our 

 library. In leaving it open whether the specimens before me belong 

 to this species or not, I find, however, that they agree very well with 

 the above-named species, originally described by Dr. Sclater from the 

 Admiralty Islands (P.Z. S. 1877, p. 555). The specimens are 

 mostly near allied to C. pacifica ; but the head, neck, and underparts 

 are grey, only the sides of liead, cliin, and throat washed with rosy 

 or vinous ; a ring round the eye white, as pointed out in Dr. Sclater's 

 description. Wings in male 9" 5'", in female 8" 9'". 



30. Carpophaga rubricera, Bp. ; Scl. I. c. p. 109. 

 Native name Gure, Hiibner. 



Male and female ; both alike. 



31. Macropygia doreya, Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 57. 

 1 M. carter etia, Scl. I.e. p. 111. 



Native name Tokuo, Hiibner. 



One old male, in bad condition, which I refer to this dark-billed 

 species, and not to .)/. carteretia, Bp., as in that the bill is said to be 

 yellow, IL nigrirostris, Salvad., which Dr. Sclater also enumerates 

 among the birds of Duke-of-York Island, seems, according to his 

 measurements, considerably smaller. 



32. Chalcophaps stephani, Puch. ; Scl. I.e. p. 111. 



Native name Nauvat, Hiibner. 



Male and female, differing as noticed by Dr. Sclattr. 



* See remarks by Mr. Sclater, March 4tli, ivfi-a. 



