12 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. lO"/ 



Birds collected in September, October, and November were in molt. 

 Wing length of males 1 71-176 (173), females 1 71-183 (176). 



TRICHOGLOSSUS HAEMATOD MASSENA Bonaparte 



Trichoglossus masscna Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. Zool., ser. 2, vol. 6, 1854, p. 

 157. ("Ins. Polynesiae," the type agrees with specimens from New 

 Hebrides, fide Hartert, Nov. Zool., vol. 32, 1925, p. 123.) 



Bougainville Island : Cape Torokina — i male, October 19. Guadal- 

 canal Island: Lnnga Point — 3 males, 2 females, November 14, 15, 

 22, 27 ; Doma Cove — i female, January 2. 



These specimens appear to be T. h. massena, as suggested by Mayr 

 (Birds of the Southwest Pacific, 1945, p. 230). They compare favor- 

 ably with a bird of this race from the New Hebrides. Birds from the 

 Admiralty Islands, T. h. flavicans Cabanis and Reichenow, have 

 lighter upperparts than the birds from the Solomon Islands. 



Wing lengths of three adult males (Guadalcanal) 1 26-1 31 (129), 

 one male (Bougainville) 135, three adult females (Guadalcanal) 

 121-125 (123). Length of exposed culmen without cere of five adults 

 18. 1-20. 1 (18.9). Birds taken in November and January were in molt. 



LORIUS CHLOROCERCUS Gould 



Lorius chlorocercus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1856, p. 137. (San Cristo- 

 bal, Solomon Islands.) 



Guadalcanal Island : Doma Cove — 2 males, 2 females, December 

 16, 17, 27. 

 Two of the birds were in molt when collected. 



VINI MARGARETHAE (Tristram) 



Charmosyna margarefJtae Tristram, Ibis, 1879, p. 442, pi. 12. (Makira Harbor, 

 San Cristobal, Solomon Islands.) 



Bougainville Island : Cape Torokina — i female, October 19. Gua- 

 dalcanal Island: Lunga Point — 3 males, i female, November 15, 16, 

 27. 



MICROPSITTA FINSCHII NANINA (Tristram) 

 Nasiterna nanina Tristram, Ibis, 1891, p. 608. (Bugotu, Solomon Islands.) 

 Bougainville Island: Cape Torokina — i male, October 8. 



