460 Messrs. H. L. and EH. L. C. Layard on 
south. Both these species are considerably larger than 
H. sancta; and unless the Ansevata bird comes fully up to 
the measuremeuts given by Mr. Sharpe in his monograph, 
we should hardly be inclined to accept its being an example 
of H. julie. 
We have a solitary specimen of a King Hunter from the 
Solomon Islands (Makira harbour, we believe) that almost 
accords with H. vagans, Less., from New Zealand, but with no 
other of our specimens. It is, however, rather more blue in 
tint, and the underside of the tail-feathers darker, the hght 
spot in front of the eye is larger, and the bill is also larger. 
It can at once be distinguished from H. julia, H. chloris, 
and H. sancta by the absence of the well-marked supercilium 
and the rich colour of the underparts. In these it exactly 
accords with H. vagans,—the coloration of which, by the way, 
in Mr. Sharpe’s plate is not at all well rendered, the real tint 
being a warm cinnamon-colour; under wing-coverts cinna- 
mon-red, as in H. vagans. If these differences should be 
constant, we can hardly suppose that it is merely a race of 
H. vagans, Less., and propose to bestow on it the appel- 
lation of H. tristrami, in honour of our friend and fellow- 
worker in Polynesian ornithology. 
[Note.—I have since received from Mr. Layard three 
specimens of this bird, which, both from its size and colora- 
tion, must be different from any species hitherto described. 
In this opinion Mr. Sharpe concurs.—H. B. Tristram. | 
XLVI.—Note on Pachycephala assimilis of J. Verreaux and 
O. Des Murs. By HE. L. and E. L. C. Layarp. 
We have long been puzzled by not finding the Pachycephala 
(Muscicapa) xanthetrea of Forster, having in our eye the 
coloured figure in the ‘ Cruise of the ‘ Curacoa,”’ p. 376, pl. 12, 
and having long since satisfied ourselves that the ruddy- 
coloured species which we find about Noumea was none 
other than P. assimilis of MM. Verreaux and Des Murs. 
Lately, however, in reading over the description of the former 
(loc. cit.), we were struck with the discrepancy between it and 
