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This fine new Gracula is, as might have been expected from its 
patria, nearest to Gracula dumonti of New Guinea and the Aru 
Islands, of which I exhibit a fine skin from Mr. Wallace’s collection 
for comparison. The naked space round the eye is nearly, though 
not quite, of the same form. There is also a narrow naked line 
along the lower edge of the mandible ; but this is not nearly so broad 
as in G. dumonti, and is almost hidden by the feathers on each side. 
The primaries have a broad white bar across them, about halfway 
up on the outer primary, but descending gradually towards the apex 
on the inner primaries. This forms a white speculum, as in G. du- 
monti. All the dimensions of the new species exceed those of its 
ally ; but this is particularly the case in the tail, which in @. dumonti 
is rather stumpy, measuring only 2:6 inches from the insertion of the 
feathers in the coccyx, instead of 4:2. 
I have great pleasure in naming this new Grackle after our active 
Corresponding Member Mr. Gerard Krefft, to whose kindness I am 
indebted for the whole of the very interesting series of which it 
forms a part. 
The stomach of the single specimen in the collection contained 
seeds and stones of semidigested fruit. 
There is a single skin of this Gracula in the British Museum, 
received from ‘ New Ireland”? through the late Sir Charles Lemon, 
F.R.S. It agrees very well with the present specimen, except in 
having the lower belly rather more deeply tinged with yellow. 
6. EURYSTOMUS CRASSIROSTRIS, sp. NOV. 
Similis E. pacifico, sed major, rostro latiore, crassiore, robustiore ; 
capite supra nigricante nec fuscescente; dorso toto viridescenti- 
ceruleo: ventre magis ceruleo: cauda valde longiore : long. 
tota 11°5, ale 7°2, caude 5:0, rostri ab ang. oris lin. dir. 1:6, 
ejusdem lat. 12. 
fab. Inss. Salomonenses. 
There is a single specimen of this Roller in the collection. I have 
compared it with Mr. Wallace’s series of Z. pacificus, from which it 
presents readily appreciable differences, and with other Australian 
specimens. The strong thick bill and longer tail seem to render it 
impossible to leave it as a variety of E. pacificus. In Mr. Wallace’s 
collection, however, is a single skin from Waigiou which is generally 
very similar to the present example, differing principally in having 
the wing-coverts of a more bluish tinge. The wing-coverts of EF. 
erassirostris are more like those of E. pacificus. 
7. ToDIRHAMPHUS CHLORIS (Bodd.). 
Alcedo chloris, Bodd. ex Buff, Pl. Enl. 783. f. 2. 
A. chlorocephala, Gm. 
One specimen apparently referable to this widely distributed spe- 
cies, which is diffused from the north-east coast of Africa over India, 
the Malayan archipelago, and the Moluccan and Papuan Islands. 
In Australia it appears to be represented by 7’. sordidus. 
