208 Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant on Birds 



Adult. Iris brown ; bill black ; feet orange. 



Young. Iris dark brown; bill black tipped with white ; 

 legs flesh-colour. 



An adult specimen in the British Museum was procured 

 by the Rev. G. Brown either on New Ireland or New Britain, 

 but bears no particulars as to its origin (c/. Sclatei', P. Z. S. 

 1877, p. 105). This bird is rather larger than any example 

 of C. solitaria from New Guinea : the wing measuring 59 mm. 

 as compared with 53-54 mm., but I cannot find that it 

 differs in any other respect. 



Mr. Goodfellow notes that this species feeds greedily on 

 a canary-coloured Mayfly which swarms on the waters of 

 the Mimika during April and May. 



" The Solitary Kingfisher was very common everywhere, 

 usually frequenting both streams and pools in tlie depths of 

 the jungle. It has the same habits, actions, flight and call 

 as the African Sapphire-crested Kingfisher." — C.H.B. G. 



Syma torotoro. 



St/ma torotoro Lesson ; Sharpe, Cat. xvii. p. 196 (1892) 

 [part.]. 



St/ ma torotoro tentelare van Oort (nee Hartert), p. 77 

 (1909). 



? Syma torotoro meeU Roths. & Hartert (nee R. & H. 

 1901), N. Z. XX. p. 488 (1913). 



a-^. S i ■ Mouth of the Mimika River, 29th Nov.- 

 15th Dec. 1910, and 14th March, 1911. [Nos. 12, 32, 39, 54, 

 150, 1147, C.H.B.G.'] 



g, h. c? et ? imm. Wakatimi, Mimika River, 2nd March, 

 1911. [Nos. 1063, 1065, C. H. B. G.'\ 



l. ^ imm. Parimau, Mimika River, 28th Dec. 191. 0. 

 [No. 856, C.H.B.G.^ 



k. S- Canoe Camp, Setakwa River, 10th Dec. 1912. 

 [C.^.iT] 



Adidt. Iris brown ; bill rich gamboge-yellow ; feet lemon- 

 yellow^ 



Young (No. 856). Iris brown ; bill gamboge-yellow, 



