120 MR. P. L. SCLATER ON BIRDS [Feb. 11, 
through the late Sir Charles Lemon, F.R.S. Messrs. Quoy and 
Gaimard give Havre Dorey, New Guinea, as the habitat of this 
Drongo. But this is probably an error, as Mr. Wallace and other 
collectors who have since visited that locality have never met with 
it, and Drongoes are mostly abundant individually, and not easily 
missed if present. The species is probably restricted to the group 
of New Ireland and the Solomon Islands. 
3. PHILEMON VULTURINUS*. 
Tropidorhynchus vulturinus, Hombr. et Jacq. Voy. au P. 8. Zool. 
iy py G9; AG t2182 ¢. 1. 
A single imperfect skin of a Honey-eater, which seems to agree 
generally with the figure above referred to. Pucheran gives the 
locality as Raffles Bay, New Holland; but the species is not known 
to the Australian fauna, and it is more than probable that there has 
been some error in M. Jacquinot’s notes as to the locality. 
The present bird is generally darker above than is represented in 
the figure, and has the apical portion of the bill light yellow. It is 
more like the so-called Tropidorhynchus diemenensis, Lesson, than 
any other species I am acquainted with, but has not the bluish 
wing-patch which distinguishes that species. 
4, CALORNIS METALLICA (Temm.). 
Lamprotornis metallica, Temm. Pl. Col. 266. 
Aplonis metallica, Gould, B. Austr. Suppl. pt. 1. 
Calornis metallica, Gould, Handb. B. Austr. i. p. 477. 
Three skins (two ¢ and one 2) agree with marked specimens 
in the British Museum. The species was originally described by 
Temminck from Amboina, but seems to extend over the whole of 
the Moluccan and Papuan Islands, including the northern promon- 
tory of New Holland. Mr. Wallace has a fine series from many 
localities, which vary but little inter se. 
5. GRACULA KREFFTI, sp. nov. (Plate IX.) 
4Eneo-nigra: regione oculari late denudata flava: caude tectri- 
cibus superioribus et inferioribus, speculo alari et ventre imo 
albis, hoc fiavescente tincto: rostro et pedibus aurantiacis : 
long. tota 11:0 poll. Angl., ale 6°3, rostri a rictu lin. dir. 1°5, 
caude 4:2, tarsi 1°45. 
Hab. Inss. Salomonenses. 
Obs. Proxima Gracule dumonti, sed valde major, cauda longiore, 
et ventre medio non flavo differt. 
* Tt is always a misfortune to be obliged to change well-established names ; 
but there seems to be no doubt that Zropidorhynchus of Vigors and Horsfield 
(1826) must give place to Philemon of Vieillot (1816). The first type given by 
Vieillot (Analyse, p. 47) is Le Polochion of Buffon = Merops moluccensis, Latham. 
This species is stated to inhabit Bouru, and is clearly the same as that subse- 
quently described by Mr. Wallace (P. Z. 8. 1863, p. 31) as Tropidorhynchus 
bouruensis. It is a typical species of the genus, and should be called Philemon 
moluccensis. 
