328 MR. W. R. OGILVIE-GRANT ON BIRDS [Mar. 15, 



species of Rodents and Marsupials, many of them of such a distinctly 

 non-arboreal nature as to preclude the possibility of their having 

 been originally introduced on drifting logs or trees, a means of dis- 

 tribution to which no doubt the Solomons owe the presence of their 

 two non-flying mammals and Rat, the Cuscus. 



2. A List of the Birds collected by Mr. Charles Morris 

 Woodford in the Solomon Archipelago. By W. R. 

 Ogilvie-Qeant, 



[Eeceived February 14, 1887.] 

 (Plate XXVII.) 



The Natural History Museum has recently received a collection 

 of Birds made by Mr. C. M. Woodford at Fauro, Alu, Shortland 

 Island, and other localities ; and, although comparatively few 

 specimens were obtained, some of the species are very interesting, and 

 one at least is new to science. This is a Crow belonging to the 

 genus Macrocoi-ax. 



The following is an extract from a letter received from Mr. C. M. 

 Woodford :^ — "I find that Hornbills and Cockatoos do not extend 

 beyond Malayta, being entirely unknown on the island of San Chris- 

 toval and the smaller islands adjacent ; and as they are not found 

 in the groups to the south-east, this will be the limit to which these 

 two genera extend." 



The following is a list of the species, with remarks on some of the 

 rarer ones, and notes on their soft parts made by the collector. 



1. ASTUR PULCHELLUS. 



Urospizias pulchellus, Ramsay; Salvad. Orn. Papuasia, iii. App. 

 p. 508. 



a. S ad. Alu. Iris brown ; bill black at tip ; nostrils and base 

 of mandibles yellow ; legs yellow. 



b. (S juv. Fauro. Iris brown ; legs and base of bill yellow ; the 

 tip black. 



This species, at first described by Ramsay as A. soloensis. Lath., 

 as already observed by Finsch, is a very distinct bird. It is nearly 

 allied to 'A. dampieri, Gurney, but may be easily distinguished by 

 the colour of the breast and abdomen, which is a uniform deep 

 vinous red (chestnut-hazel, Ridgway) instead of vinous with faint, 

 narrow, pale cross bars on the flanks, belly, and under tail-coverts. 



Char. Male adult. Head, back, upper coverts, quills and tail- 

 feathers slaty grey (Ridgway), the latter without any trace of cross 

 bars. Throat and fore neck light slaty grey. Breast, abdomen, 

 flanks, and under tail-coverts deep vinous red (chestnut-hazel, 

 Ridgw.). Axillaries and under wing-coverts pale vinous red the 

 latter with greyish cross bars. Quills below slaty grey, the inner 

 web lighter, with whitish wavy bars towards the distal extremity. 



Total length 13-5 inches, culmen -6, wing 77, tail 6*25, tarsus 2-1. 



