1870.] MR. J. BRAZIER ON GRACULA KREFFTI. 551 
2. Groruiyris MELANOPS, Baird, B. N. A. i. p. 241. 
A fully adult male of this Geothlypis, which Prof. Baird has re- 
cently separated from G. trichas. The exact locality of the specimen 
is not given. Sclater’s collection contains a similar example from 
some part of Mexico, hitherto confounded with G. trichas. There 
can, we think, be no doubt of the validity of this species, which (as 
Prof. Baird also notes, /. c.) is quite distinct from G. speciosa, Sclater. 
Of the last-named bird, Sclater’s typical specimens are still unique. 
3. THRYOTHORUS PLEUROSTICTUS, Scl. Cat. A. B. p. 21, pl. iv. 
This species has not before been sent from Mexico, and only one 
(the type) specimen from Guatemala. Several examples, however, 
have been forwarded from Costa Rica during the last few years. 
4, CYANOSPIZA LECLANCHERI. 
Passerina (Spiza) leclancheri, Lafr. Rey. Zool. 1841, p. 260, et 
Mag. de Zool. 1841, Ois. pl. 22. 
Spiza leclancheri, Bp. Consp. i. p. 475. 
A pair of this charming species from San Juan del Rio; the first 
we have vet met with. 
Lafresnaye described and figured the male of this Finch from an 
example obtained by M. Leclancher, one of the officers of the 
‘Venus,’ during the expedition of that vessel, near Acapulco. The 
female does not differ materially from the male, except that the 
coloration of the plumage is of a less brilliant tint. 
5. Morococcyx eryTHropyeta (Less.): Sel. Cat. A. B. p. 322. 
One skin of this Cuckoo from San Juan del Rio; the first Mexican 
specimen met with, except an example in the Museum of the Aca- 
demy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, U.S. A. (examined by 
Sclater in 1856), which was procured near Mazatlan by Mr. Bell of 
New York. 
2. Notes on Gracula kreffti. 
By Joun Brazirr. 
During my visit to the Solomon Islands along with my friend Sir 
William Wiseman in September 1865, we obtained six living examples 
of the Grakle recently described by Mr. Sclater (P.Z.8. 1869, p.120) 
as Gracula kreffti at Ysabel* or Isabel Island (as some writers please 
to callit). This was the only island in the group in which we met with 
it. These birds were bought of the natives. On my visit to the 
mountains I saw plenty of the same species, but I found it impossible 
to get within gun-shot of them. This Grakle isa bird that is almost 
always on the wing, and frequents the mountains of the island, never 
the lowland. How the natives take them alive is a question. When 
in captivity they soon become tame. The natives bring them off 
* In Mendana’s ‘ Voyages’ it is called Santa Ysabel. 
