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of the group ami collected a great number of birds tor 

 ^[r. Rothschild's Museum. His collections showed that the 

 proportion of species and subspecies peculiar to this group of 

 islands was rather large, and that the various islands were 

 inhabited by different forms. A few new species had already 

 been described at former meetings of this Club, but exhaustive 

 articles would soon appear on the collectiou.s in the ' Novitates 

 Zoologiccc/ and were partly in the press. Examples of the 

 following new species were exhiljited : — 



Edoliosoma RosTRATUjr, sp. u. 



J' ad. Bluish slate-colour ; ear-coverts darker, almost 

 black ; lores, chin, and line at gape black. Wings black, 

 inner webs very broadly white, outer webs bordered with the 

 colour of the back, but lighter. Central rectrices slaty-grey 

 like the back, black along the shafr, broadly tipped with 

 black ; the other rectrices black with narrow grey tips, the 

 outermost pair broadly tipped with grey. Bill very large 

 and .strongly hooked. Wing 135, tail 115, culmeu from base 

 43-44, bill from nostril to tip 20"5-21 mm. 



? ad. Above greyish brown, the crown bluish ash; a narrow 

 pale rufous superciliary line. Broad stripe behind eye and 

 lores blackish grey ; ear-coverts pale rusty brown, with dark 

 greyish stripes. Kemiges blackish, outer webs narrowly, 

 inner webs broadly, bordered with pale cinnamon. Central 

 rectrices pale greyish brown, narrowly tipped with pale 

 cinnamon ; the rest blackish brown, bioadly tipped with 

 cinnamon. Underside pale cinnamon, the sides of neck and 

 breast more or less barred with black. 



Hab. Ptossel Island. 



^NIVZOMELA ALBIGULA, Sp. U, 



c^ ad. Above dark greyish black, the head and upper tail- 

 coverts with slightly paler edges to the feathers. Tail 

 blackish brown, lleraiges blackish brown, outwardly nar- 

 rowly edged with dusty grey; inner webs with broad pale 

 ashy. white .borders. Chin and throat pale brownish o-rev^ 

 with a short, more or less indistinct, dark red line on 

 the loT\-er margin. Chest dark ashy brown; remainder of 



