348 MR. p. L. SCLATER ON BIRDS FROM LIMA. [JunC 5, 



Ptilopus eugenice (Gould) ; Salvad. O. P. iii. p. 56 ; Tristram, 

 Ibis, 1882, p. 139. 



A single perfect adult specimen of this lovely species, from the 

 Solomons, the exact island not marked. 



The collection also contains numerous examples of Ptilopus 

 ncJiardsi and P. solomonensis, from Ugi, S. I. The latter species 

 is closely allied to my P.johannis (Birds of the ' Challenger' Exp. 

 pi. X.), but quite distinct. 



Carpophaga melanochroa, Scl. ; Salvad. /. c> 



Tv?o skins of this fine species, of which the type (described and 

 figured, P. Z. S. 18/8, p. 672, pi. xlii.), has hitherto remained unique. 

 Both are from the Duke-of-York group, where Mr. Brown tells me 

 the bird is very rarely seen. 



Reimvardtcenas browni (Scl.) ; Salvad. O. P. iii. p. 131. 



Six examples of this fine species, all alike, and from the Duke-of- 

 York group. 



I have great doubts whether Count Salvadori is correct in his 

 suggestion that Turacoena crassirostris is the youug of this species. 



In continuation of previous communications on the same sub- 

 jectS Mr. Sclater exhibited two birds obtained near Lima, Peru, 

 and transmitted to him by Prof. William Nation, C.M.Z.S. These 

 were : — 



(1) A fine adult specimen of Buteo abbreviatus {Tachytriorchis 

 abbreviatus, Sharpe, Cat. Birds, i. p. 163) in the plumage of Buteo 

 albonotatus, Gray, i. e. with occasional white spots on the lower 

 surface. 



This bird had been shot near the gates of Lima in September 

 1862. "Cere, legs, toes, and edges of the mouth of a beautiful 

 chrome-yellow ; bill bluish, tip nearly black. Food in stomach part 

 of a lizard and remains of birds. Sex, male." 



(2) A fine adult male of the Humming-bird Polyonymus caroU, of 

 which Prof. Nation had previously sent a female (P. Z. S. 1881, 

 p. 487). 



Mr. Nation wrote of this specimen : — " It was shot by Mr. 

 Dallas in his trip up the valley of the Rimac in 1880, and sent to 

 me in the flesh. The place where he shot it is at about 8000 feet 

 altitude. Sex, male. Total length 5f\|- inches, wing Sy'jj ; irides 

 bluish black. Food found in the stomach, small coleopterous in- 

 sects." 



Mr. Sclater took this opportunity of remarking that his Buarre- 

 mon nationi, described in the last paper on Mr. Nation's birds 

 (P. Z. S. 1«81, p. 485, pi, xlvi.), was undoubtedly identical with 

 Pipilo mystacalis of Taczanowski (P. Z. S. 1874, p. 521), but that, 

 as mystacalis had been already used by Lafresnaye as a specific 

 term in the genus Buarremon, it would perhaps be better to use the 

 1 See P. Z. S. 1881, p. 484, for the last. 



