24 MESSRS. HARTLAUB AND FINSCH [Jan. 3, 



The other specimen, more advanced in age, has the vertex and 

 cheeks already red as in the old bird, but the upper and under sur- 

 faces are still dark green, except a blue tinge on the chin and occipnt ; 

 bill black, basal half of the lower mandible yellow ; feet dark. 



Long. al. caud. rostr. alt. a bas. tars. dig. med. 



2" 6"' 13'" 5'" 4|'" BJ"' 6'" (jun., Savai.) 



2 3 12 c. 5 4 8 5£ (jun., Savai.) 



2 4 13 5| A\ 8 6 (ad., Upolu.) 



7. Lobiospiza notabilis, Hartl. et Finsch, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 81 7, 

 pi. xlix. 



We are much pleased to find a second specimen of this interesting 

 new form in the collection of Mr. Kubary, from Savai. This spe- 

 cimen, forwarded in spirits, agrees with the type as described I. c, 

 but convinces us also that that, as we had suspected, was only a 

 young bird. The specimen from Savai is apparently in a more 

 advanced state, showing the whole surface of head, the upper tail- 

 coverts, and the outer edges of the rectrices of a dirty pale reddish 

 brown, which colour, having lost its intensity by the influence of the 

 spirit, has been formerly of a vivid red. We are assured of this 

 point by having before us an old specimen of Amblynura cyanovirens, 

 in which the red of the head has also changed into a dirty reddish 

 brown. We have reason to suspect that the very old bird of Lobio- 

 spiza will show a far more brilliant and beautiful plumage. 



8. Sturnoides atrifusca (Peale) ; Finsch et Hartl. I. c. p. 107. 



Three specimens, in every respect agreeing with specimens from 

 Upolu. There exists some difference in size. 



Long. al. caud. rostr. tars. dig. med. 



5"4'"-5"8'" 3"9"'-4" 13'" 16-17'" 11|-12'" 



" Native name, Fuia." (Kubary.) 



9. Carpophaga pacifica (Gmel.) ; Finsch et Hartl. I. c. p. 142, 

 et Journ. f. Orn. 1870, p. 134. 



Three specimens, agreeing with specimens from Upolu and Ton- 

 gatabu, and varying in the same way. 



One, an old male, with a well-marked protuberance on the base 

 of the bill, resembles a specimen from Upolu, except that the cheeks 

 are also tinged with a delicate vinaceous hue. 



Two other specimens, labelled " young males," without a knob, 

 show the head and neck darker grey than in the adult bird. In 

 one the grey of the underparts is tinged very faintly with vinaceous ; 

 in the other this colour already exists, but much less vivid than in 

 the adult. The feet are dark brown in the young bird. 



dig. med. 



15'" (c? ad., Savai.) 

 16 ' ( c? jun., Savai.) 

 16 ( c? jun., Savai.) 

 15 (jun., Rarotonga.) 



