420 CANON TRISTRAM ON THE ROEBUCK OF PALESTINE. [May 2, 



2. Description of a new Thrush from Taviuni, one of the Fiji 

 Islands. By E. L. Layard, C.M.G., F.Z.S., H.B.M. 

 Consul for Fiji and Tonga. 



[Eeceived May 2, 1876.] 



I am indebted to Mr. Tempest for examples of a third species of 

 Fijian Thrush (Turdus), which I propose to designate by his name, 

 having given the appellation of vitiensis to the species previously 

 discovered by him at Bua. 



The present bird is most interesting, as being intermediate between 

 T. vitiensis and T. vanicorensis in colour, and likewise as being 

 particoloured, as is the case in the first species discovered in these 

 islands, Turdus bicolor (Ibis, 1875, p. 153). 



It may be described as follows : — 



Turdus tempesti, sp. nov. 



3 . Dark smoky-brown (almost as black as in T. vanicorensis) 

 throughout, with the exception of the entire head and chest, which 

 are drab-coloured, tinged with red, much like the colour of T. viti- 

 ensis, nobis. Bill and feet bright orange. 



Length 8", wing 4" 2'", tail 3" 2'", tarse 1" 4'", bill 1" 2'". 



The 5 is paler and ruddier, and the head and chest less distinctly 

 marked. A young d 1 nestling shows the dark plumage of its father, 

 with reddish-brown shafts to many of the feathers of the back, and 

 the same colour on the edges and tips of the feathers of the head 

 and wing-secondaries. IJnderparts confusedly marked with the 

 same. 



Mr. Tempest tells me that this species has the same metallic 

 chattering note as the European bird, but that he never heard it 

 " sing." It inhabits the forest at the south end of Taviuni, at Selia 

 Levu, Vuna Point, scratching under the bushes for worms and in- 

 sects, on which it feeds. Some specimens killed by him had the 

 bill covered with mud, showing that they dibbled into the ground in 

 search of worms. 



3. Note on the Discovery of the Roebuck (Cervus capreolus) 

 in Palestine. By the Rev. Canon Tristram. 



[Eeceived May 2, 1876.] 



In a paper read before the Society in February 18G6*, I mentioned, 

 in giving a list of the mammals of Palestine, that I had reason to be- 

 lieve the Roebuck was found in that country, though I could not 

 produce a specimen. I felt satisfied that I could hardly be mistaken 

 in the small Deer I had more than once disturbed on the southern 

 shores of Lebanon ; and Mr. Boyd Dawkins had identified teeth of 

 the Roebuck among the remains of other still existing mammals in 

 * See P. Z. S. 18GG, p. 80. 



