﻿No. 4. Head very dark cinnamon, thickly streaked -with green ; back of the neck 

 white strongly tinged with cinnamon, and margined with grey ; scapulars dull greenish ; 

 wing-coverts all conspicuously margined with rusty ; entire under surface white, the 

 feathers of the upper part of the breast margined with grey ; bill tipped with white. 



Hab. Marianne Islands (mus. Paris) ; Island of Guam (mus. Lugd.) ; New Guinea 

 (Lesson; mus. Lugd); Marquesas Islands (mus. Dvesd.) ; New Ireland (G. R. Gray), New 

 Caledonia (G. R. Gray) ; Solomon Islands, Yanikoro (mus. Plrilad.) ; Pelew Islands 

 (Godefroy) ; Phillipines (mus. Lugd.). 



Mr. George Robert Gray (I.e.) gives as habitats of the present species the following 

 localities " New Caledonia, New Hebrides," but on what authority I have not discovered, 

 specimens from these places not being in the British Museum. 



The different stages of plumage through which the present species passes are most 

 difficult to define, and it is only by conjecture that I am able to form any opinion on the 

 subject. So far as I can judge there is no fixed rule for the changes of plumage, young 

 birds being found with the breast white and cinnamon. Such, for instance, are specimens 



3 and 4 described above, which agree very well with each other as regards the 

 plumage of the upper surface, as well as in having rusty edgings to the wing-coverts and 

 the white tip to the bill. Specimen 2 I take to be more adult inasmuch as it has no 

 edgings to the wing-coverts, and has nearly lost the green stripes down the centre of the 

 head, while specimen 1 must be a very old bird as it has a uniform cinnamon head and 

 a pure white breast. The form with the breast entirely white (H. Reichenbachi) I consider 

 not to be a distinct species but to be the very old H. cinnamomina. 



The British Museum has a specimen said to be from the Marquesas Islands, and 

 agreeing with the H. Reichenbacldi of Hartlaub ; but it should be observed that neither the 

 specimens in the Dresden or British Museums are substantially authenticated, and I much 

 question whether any dependence can be placed on the locality assigned. I am strengthened 

 in my belief by the fact that the British Museum also possesses a specimen from Vanikoro, 

 exactly intermediate between true H. cinnamomina and H. Reichenbacldi, that is to say it 

 has the throat white, the breast cinnamon, the belly much paler and fast becoming white 



Lesson in the most astounding manner states (I.e.) that the present bird is in the gallery 

 of the Paris Museum, and then asks if it can be the same as his Syma torotoro. Considering 

 that he invented the latter appellation it is curious to find him not able to recognise one of 

 his own species. 



The three birds figured in the plate have been lent me by Professor Schlegel, and are 

 the ones mentioned in his " Catalogue." The descriptions are from the same birds. No. 



4 is described from a specimen from the Pelew Islands, very kindly lent me by Mr. J. 

 Cesar Godefroy, of Hamburgh, who has done much to aid me in the preparation of the 

 present work. This latter bird is the specimen mentioned by Drs. Finsch and Hartlaub (I.e.) 



