308 Notes of a Collecting-trip in the New Hebrides, &c. 
Second. Sauloprocta tricolor, I fancy. The only specimen 
seen by any of us during the trip I shot in a dense thicket in 
Blanche Bay. 
Third. Sauloprocta ? ‘This bird is probably well 
known, as I saw skins among Mr. Brown’s duplicates; but 
our ‘ Zoological Proceedings’ not having reached us for three 
quarters of a year, we cannot identify it. It appears to be 
found only on Palakura and the other little “ Pigeon island,” 
the two outer islands of the Duke-of-York group, in company 
with Pachycephala melanura. Mr. Brown claims to have 
purchased these two islands from the natives. 
Fourth. Malurus ? <A species much resembling our 
old friend Malurus (Drymeca) africanus of the Cape of Good 
Hope, with the same decomposed pointed feathers in the long 
tail. Head rufous, faintly striped with dark brown; back 
rufous-brown, with a black centre to each feather. Under- 
parts brown on the sides, and white from the chin down the 
centre to the vent. It is only found in the long dense grass 
round the shores of Blanche Bay. It makes one short flight, 
and without a dog I found it absolutely impossible to flush a 
second time. The way I procured my specimens (a pair only) 
was by waiting patiently and taking a flying shot*. 
Fifth. Diceum ——? A minute species, of which the 
female only was procured. Above dark grey, rump crimson ; 
beneath, throat, chest, centre of belly, and vent isabelline 
white ; flanks yellowish olive. Shot in Blanche Bay, im a 
thicket overgrown with creepers on the sea-shore. ‘The male 
has a red spot on the breast, not a band, as figured in the 
P. Z. 8. 1877, pl. xiv., as occurring in D. eximium. It was 
obtained by Lieut. Richards. 
Sixth. Megapodius ? A small Megapode, which we 
think may prove to be the young of M. eremita, occurred. It 
is throughout of a dark brown, more or less spotted and 
barred on the upper surface with a lightish red-brown ; some 
of the spots on the back assume an arrow-headed or inverted 
A-like shape; below the markings are very inconspicuous 
* [This is, no doubt, Sclater’s Megahu'us interscapularis, P. Z,S. 1880, 
p. 65, pl. vi., sent home by Mr., Brown,—Epp. } 
