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Parrot, and his notes upon it will be read to the Meeting ; so I need 
say no more*. 
15. TRICHOGLOSSUS MASSEN#. 
Trichoglossus massene, Bp.; Finsch, Papag. ii. p. 834. 
One skin agreeing with the specimen so named in the British 
Museum (cf. Finsch, /. c. p. 826). 
16. ATHENE VARIEGATA. 
Noctua variegata, Quoy et Gaim. Voy. Astr. Zool. i. p. 166, Atl. 
fe Yet 2. 
Athene variegata, Bp. Consp. i. p. 41. 
One example which seems to agree well enough with Quoy and 
Gaimard’s figure and description. These naturalists met with the 
species in New Ireland. 
17. CARPOPHAGA RUBRICERA. 
Globicera rubricera, Bp. Consp. i. p. 31. 
Carpophaga rubricera, G. R. Gray, List of Columbe, p. 18. 
C. lepida, Cassin, Proc. Acad. Phil. 1854, p. 230. 
I have compared this with the type specimen in the British Mu- 
seum. Bonaparte states that an example in the Paris collection is 
from New Ireland. A second example in the British Museum is 
from San Cristoval (M‘Gillivray). 
18. Rauius rnractus, sp. nov. (Plate X.) 
Supra olivaceo-brunneus ; capite colloque toto et remigibus pri- 
mariis externis rufis: uropygio et cauda nigricanti-cinereis : 
subtus gula albicante; pectore toto rufo, capite concolori ; 
ventre plumbeo, crisso nigricante: hypochondriis et tectricibus 
subalaribus nigricantibus, albo guttatis: long. tota 10°5, ale 
6°8, caude@ 1:8, rostri a rictu 1:9, tarsi 2:5, dig. med. c. u. 2°0. 
Hab. Inss. Salomonenses. 
Obs. Similis R. plumbeiventri (G. R. Gray, P. Z. 8.1861, p. 432), 
sed rostro breviore, capitis et pectoris colore rufo obscuriore, ventris 
autem dilutiore plumbeo distinguendus. 
The collection contains only a single skin of this Rail, which is 
more nearly allied to Rallus plumbewentris of Mysol and Morty 
Island than to any other species known to me. 
19. ARDEA SACRA (Gm.). 
Two skins of this wide-spread and variable species :—one in uni- 
form nearly black plumage (as represented by Buffon, Pl. Enl. 926), 
with faint indications of a narrow gular stripe; the other white, but 
showing traces of the black plumage gradually making its appear- 
ance. Upon this species consult Hartlaub and Pelzeln (Fauna 
Central-Polynesiens, p. 201). 
* See below, p. 126. 
