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ORNITHOLOGY. 



nearly white on the throat, and deepest on the abdomen and collar. 

 Tibia buff, with a few brownish feathers. Bill dark, with a large 

 white spot at the base of the lower mandible. 



Younger male, from Ovolau, in the Feejee Islands. 



Superciliary stripe deep orange ; head and back more strongly tinged 

 Avitli green, and the stripe from behind the eye nearly black. Superior 

 wing-coverts edged with buff. Inferior parts of the body and collar on 

 the neck behind nearly pure white ; plumage on the breast slightly 

 margined with black. Tibia with more brown feathers than the last. 



Male ? from Viti Levu, one of the Feejee Islands. 



Superciliary stripe narrow, and much less tinged with orange ; in 

 some specimens nearly white, and in others, almost obsolete. Back 

 prussian-green. Inferior parts of the body and collar on the neck 

 behind -white ; plumage on the breast slightly margined with black. 

 Tibia with the brown feathers predominating. 



There are in the collection of the Expedition two specimens, from 

 a locality not stated, which I have, with some hesitation, concluded 

 to refer to this species. They are both young birds, and present a 

 remarkable character in the almost total obliteration of the superci- 

 liary stripe Avhich so strongly marks other stages of plumage of the 

 species now under consideration. These two specimens bear a great 

 general resemblance to the common T. chloris, of Java, but are much 

 smaller. 



This is one of the most handsome species of this group, and in adult 

 plumage is not difficult to recognize. The young, however, bears 

 some resemblance to that of several other species, especially to the 

 preceding. 



5. TODIRAMPHUS VAGANS [LesSOn) . 



Alccdo vaijans, Lesson, Voy. Coquille, Zoologie, I, p. 694 (1826). 

 Alcedo cyanea, Forsteb, Desc. An. p. 76 (184:-4). 



Voy. Erebus and Terror, Birds, Plate I; Reichenbach, Vollst. 

 Naturg. Birds, Plate CCCCXIX, figs. 3138-39. 



