Collecting-trip in the New Hebrides, &c. 301 
TRICHOGLOSSUS SUBPLACENS, Scl. 
This lovely Parrakeet confined itself entirely to the cocoa- 
nut-blossoms. 
NaAsITERNA Pusio, Scl. 
Creeps, like a Nuthatch or European Creeper, round the 
tree-trunks, in small parties ; very fearless ; feeds mostly on 
the seeds of parasitic plants. 
KcLectus potycutorvs, Scop. 
Very common; good eating. A native brought me two 
fresh eggs, showing me the parent birds, and pointing out a 
hole in a big tree-stem, where a rotten branch had fallen off, 
as the entrance of the nest he had just robbed. The eggs are 
pure white, but apparently much soiled, either by the débris of 
rotten wood or by the parent bird. Axis 1” 6", diam. 1” 3!", 
blunt at the smaller end. The red and blue birds are females, 
the green ones the males. 
CARPOPHAGA SPILORRHOA, G. R. Gray. 
I procured three specimens of this bird in Ferguson’s Bay ; 
Lieut. Richards shot another; these were the only examples 
we saw of this fine species. It did not appear to be at all 
wary in its habits. I got a pair at my first shot, and while 
admiring their elegance, another bird pitched in the same 
place, and was quickly placed beside the firsttwo. Richards 
shot his from the same tree directly afterwards, making 
two pairs. The white traders told me the birds were found 
nowhere else. 
CaRPOPHAGA VANWYCKI, Cassin. 
Much commoner about the Duke-of-York Islands than in 
New Britain. In perfect swarms on “ Palakura” and the 
smaller Pigeon island. 
CaRPOPHAGA RUBRICERA, G. R. Gray. 
Multitudes in Blanche Bay. We used to feed the whole 
of the ‘Renard’s’ crew on them. An egg, said to belong to 
this species, was brought by a native, who identified it on 
seeing askin. Itis of a pure shining white, similarly shaped 
at each end. Axis 1" 103!) diam. 1!” 5!". 
