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According to Mr. Petterd, in Ms notes appended to Mr. Stone's 

 collection {cf. Sharpe, I. c), the Channel-bill Cuckoo was gene- 

 rally distributed near Port Moresby. The first specimens that I 

 have seen from that locality have now come to hand, the species 

 being represented in Mr. Broadbent's and Mr. Lawea's collections, 

 while several specimens are in Mr. G-oldie's. 



8. Centbopus nigricans (Salvacl). — C. spilopterus, Sliarpe, 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 490 (jiec Gray); Ramsay, I, c. p. 258. — 

 Polophilus nigricans, Salvacl Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. xiii. p. 463. 



The number of specimens which I have now seen of this Cuckoo, 

 bearing out Count Salvadori's characters, convince me that I was 

 wrong in referring the bird to C. spilopterus of the Ke Islands. 



9. Tantsipteka STLVIA5 Gould; Sharpe, Journ. Linn. Soe. xiii. 

 p. 493 ; Salvacl. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov, x. p. 803. — T. Salvado- 

 riana, Ramsay, I. c. p. 259. 



In Mr. Broadbent's collection were several examples, which 

 appear to be quite identical with Oape-Tork specimens. 



10. Tantsipteea miceoehtncha, Sharpe, Journ. Linn. Soc. 

 xiii. p. 311. — T. galatea (pt.), Salvacl. Ann. Mtcs. Civic. Genov. x. 

 p. 302. — T. galatea, Ramsay, I. c. p. 259 {nee Gray). 



I have now examined a large series of the Racket-tailed King- 

 fisher in the collections both of Mr. Groldie and Mr. Broadbent, 

 and I find the character of the small bill holds good. A certain 

 difference is seen in the blue coloration of the head, some speci- 

 mens having a rich cobalt-brown, inclining to silvery cobalt only 

 on the edges : this is the most plentiful form, and agrees with the 

 type of the species in the Museum. In Mr. Broadbent's collec- 

 tions, however, was a beautiful bird, of the same size as T. onicro- 

 rhyncTia, but differing in having the back strongly washed with 

 purplish blue, the head and wing-spot rich silvery cobalt. This 

 may be the very old male bird ; and I do not propose to describe 

 a new species from a single example. 



11. Dendeochelidon mtstaceus (Less.). — Macropteryx mys- 

 tacea (Less.) ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. x. p. 311 ; Ram- 

 say, Z. c. p. 265. 



One specimen collected by Mr. Broadbent, and two in Mr. 

 Goldie's collection. 



12. GrTMNOCOEAX SENEX (Less.) ; Sliarpe, Cat. B. iii. p. 50. 

 A specimen in grey plumage in Mr. Broadbent's collection. 



