292 My. E. L. C. Layard’s Notes of a 
Macropyeia rura, Ramsay. 
[We still hold to our opinion that this bird is the Columba 
ferruginea of Forster, described from Tanna; it is so very 
common among the New Hebrides, that it could not possibly 
have escaped notice. So also with the former species.— 
HL, Li. 
TRICHOGLOSsUS PALMARUM (Forst.). 
At last I procured three specimens of this rare Parrakeet, 
which I only saw on my last visit. It frequents the cocoanut- 
trees, feeding on the blossoms, and, if commoner, would be 
very destructive to the cocoanut-crop. It is not only rare, 
but exceedingly wary and difficult to get. 
Latace Banwsiana, G. R. Gray. 
I had the pleasure of having a good look at one of these 
lovely little birds. As I was sitting in a dense thicket of 
Hibiscus, under a cocoanut-tree, waiting for Trichoglossi, a 
full-plumaged bird perched within a yard and stared at me. 
Of course, at such a distance, I could not fire ; and though I 
sat perfectly quiet, he flew off and disappeared in the bush. 
I saw all the other birds procured or noticed in my last 
voyage (cf. Ibis, 1878, p. 267). 
[PorrHyrio vITIENSIS, Peale. 
A singularly small delicately formed race of this bird, or a 
species hardly separable from it, has been sent us from Vate 
Island, New Hebrides. It differs also slightly in coloration, 
being only faintly tinged with light blue on the neck and 
chest, the prevailing tint being dark blue, as on the body. 
We give the dimensions of the bird in the flesh (as it was sent 
to us alive), compared with the New-Caledonian bird :— 
Vate bird. New-Caledonian. 
in. lin. in. lin. 
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WHE aodocoovacd000N 9 0 103 O 
Paras hulndtedcnitccm mare povauces YY) ak 
arse x crkalsorocustnccrtatorets 3} I oe 0 
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