THE BIRDS OP THE FIJI ISLANDS. 25 



genus Chrysosna, calls unique^ is such as to make it difficult to give the effect 

 in a Plate ; and the bird is so beautiful that to imitate the red-hot colour is 

 next to impossible, and makes the eyes ache, 



Mr. Gould has the merit of first bringing this fine species to the notice 

 of English ornithologists^ which he did at the meeting of the Zoological 

 Society on November 7th, 1871 (P. Z, S. 1871, p. 642), and expressed himself 

 thus : — 



" I propose to call it Chrysoena victor ; it is the second species of the 

 genus, of which 0. luteovirens is the type. 



" Chryscena victor, Gould. 



^* Size, About, or perhaps a trifle larger than, that of C. luteovirens, 



*' Colour. The entire surface of the body, both above and below, a lovely 

 carmineous orange; while the head and throat, as if in direct contrast to the 

 brilliant colouring of the body, is of a dull silvery pea-green ; under surface 

 of the wings rich pure yellow, the primaries becoming orange on the upper 

 surface of their outer webs, and their shafts dark olive above. 



" Total length 7 inches ; bill |, wing 4J, tail 2^, tarsi |. 



'' The female and young w^ill probably be green, as in the case of 

 C. luteovirens ; at least I find a stray feather or two of that colour on each 

 side of the body. 



" Mr. T. J. Moore " (of the Liverpool Museum) '^has favoured me with 

 the following note : — 



'''The bird I now send w^as obtained by Mr. Thomas Binns Robson, of 

 New Brighton, Cheshire, during his visit to the Fiji Islands in September 

 1867, and was presented by him to the Derby Museum on his return to 

 England. Mr. Robson w^as so good as to give me the following information 

 respecting it : — '' The native name is Buli ndamu. It appears to be not 

 infrequent in the locality where he shot it, Mbua, a native town and 



