Collecting-trip in the New Hebrides, &c. 307 
CACATUA DUCORPSI. 
Feeding on the fruits of old mangrove-trees some distance 
up an inland arm of the sea. 
Eos CARDINALIS. 
Also in the old mangrove-trees. This bird is very tough- 
skinned, and will fly away after receiving a heavy charge 
of shot. 
TRICHOGLOSSUS MASSENZ. 
Same locality as Hos cardinalis. 
PTILOPUS GEELVINKIANUS (Schleg.) ? 
At least we imagine it to be so, from the lovely claret- 
coloured throat. I heard a Dove cooing, and after some 
hunting, saw the bird sitting on abare branch. I fired, and, 
to my great delight, down came the pair. 
CARPOPHAGA, sp. inc. 
Unknown to us; has a red knob on the bill. 
[This is, no doubt, C. rufigula, Salvad. (see Ibis, 1880, 
p. 131).—Epp. | 
BucEROos RUFICOLLIS. 
I saw this bird, but did not procure it. Captain Mac- 
Donald sent us a skin from this locality two years ago. 
While hunting about among the mangroves, I heard the 
loud note of a bird that sounded very like a Tanysiptera. 
Mentioning the circumstance on board Captain Ferguson’s 
steamer, the master of a trading-vessel in at the time told 
me it was a Tanysiptera, and that he himself had shot them 
in the identical place. He added, “I ought to know the 
bird, for I was captain of the missionary steam-launch on 
the coast of New Guinea for five months with D’Albertis 
on board, and he brought birds off and skinned them often 
enough.” 
I have some more birds from Blanche Bay that I cannot 
quite identify. 
First. A large blackish-brown Hawk, of which both the 
larger wing- and tail-feathers are crossed with broad yel- 
lowish-white bars. It had all the habits of a Harrier. 
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