552 MISS E. M. SHARPE ON [June 17, 



Kumaon to Darjiling and Upper Assam, probably breeding through- 

 out the whole of this range. Mr. Thompson states that they are 

 found from the Sardah to the Ganges, but particularly abound in 

 the Kotree Doon. The species is also found in summer in Eastern 

 Siberia and Northern China, and it appears to winter in Southern 

 Tenasserim and the Malayan Peninsula, specimens being in the 

 Hume Collection from Copah, Malacca, Pulo Seban, and the native 

 State of Kuroo near Malacca. It is probably this species which 

 Jerdon believed to winter in Central India. 



Habits, t|-c. Arrives, according to Mr. Thompson, in the Terai 

 below Kumaon in April, breeding in May and finally leaving the 

 forests in July and August. They breed in the loftiest sal trees in 

 holes in the higher branches (never less than 50 feet from the 

 ground), and they are confined to the sal forests. 



Although this species has never yet been described and its 

 differences from E. orientalis pointed out, I have thought it best to 

 adopt Hodgson's name. This has before now been quoted, but only 

 as a synonym of E. orientalis, which is the black-tailed bird. 



While on the subject of the Eastern Eurystomi, I may point out 

 that the Roller of the Solomon Islands, usually identified with 

 E. crassirostns, is a distinct species, entirely wanting the black tip 

 to the culmen which is found in all the other Eurj/stomi. Although 

 originally supposed to come from the Solomon Islands, there is no 

 doubt that the type specimen of E. crassirostris came from New 

 Ireland, like many other birds out of the same collection. I have 

 not seen the tj-pe specimen recently, but it is distinctly described by 

 Count Salvador! as having a black-tipped culmen, and I therefore 

 call the allied bird from the Solomons 



EUEYSTOMTJS SOLOMONENSIS, Sp. n. 



E. similis E. crassirostri, seel rostro omnino ruhro, culmine minime 

 nigro terminato distingueadus. Long. tot. 12'0, culm. 1"45, 

 alee 7"7, caud. 5*2, tarsi 0"7. 



Bah. in insulis Solomonensibus. 



9. On a Collection of Lepidoptera made by Mr. Edmund 

 Reynolds on the Rivers Tocantins and Araguaya and 

 in the Pro^dnce of Goyaz^ Brazil. By Emily Mary 

 Sharpe. (Communicated by R. Bowdler Sharpe, 



F.Z.S.) 



[Eeceived June 16, 1890.] 



(Plate XLVI.) 



It has seemed to me to be worth while that a record should be 

 preserved of the collection of Butterflies made by Mr. Reynolds 

 during his adventurous journey on the Araguaya. The collection 

 was made with great care ; and, as I believe that no naturalist has 



