107 L^'ol. xxi. 



Ilab. Vella Lavella I., Central Group of the Solomon 

 Islands. 



Type in the Tring Museum : c? • No. 3858, 26. ii. 08. 



MONARCHA BRODIEI NIGROTECTUS, Subsp. U. 



Adult male. Difters from the male o{ M. b. brodiei (Ramsay) 

 in having all the upper wiug-coverts blue-black, whereas in 

 the latter the medio n and greater wing-coverts are white. 

 There is also more white in the tail, the outer rectrices 

 being white for nearly half their length, and the upper 

 surface is black with a blue lustre, but without any purplish 

 tinge. 



Adult female. Differs from the female of M. b. brodiei in 

 being brown and less rufous on the upper surface and in 

 having the white portion of the outer rectrices purer white 

 and more extended. 



Hab. Vella Lavella I., Central Group of the Solomon 

 Islands. 



Type in the Tring Museum : ^ . No. 3957, 8. iii. 08. 



Dr. Hartert also exhibited some examples of Bullfinches, 

 showing that the British race differs from the Central 

 European one. The male, he explained, was very similar 

 to tiiat of Pyrrhula pyrrhula europcea, but the red and grey 

 colours were, as a rule, a little less brilliant and the size 

 somewhat smaller. The female, on the other hand, had the 

 underparts conspicuously darker and browner, the back 

 darker, and the wing shorter. Dr. Hartert thought that 

 Macgillivray^s name PyrrJmla pileata was applicable to the 

 British race. Further details regarding the nomenclature, 

 &c., of this form would be found in a forthcoming number 

 of ' British Birds.' 



Dr. Hartert likewise described a new subspecies of an 

 Indian Warbler, which he proposed to call 



HOREITES PALLIDIPES OSMASTONl, Subsp. U. 



Adult male. Differs from H. p. pallidipes, Blanf , (a species 



