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R. COLLETT. 



[No. 13. 



One species, a Bhipidura, may possibly be new; it is related 

 to Rh. verreauxi, Mar. 1870, from New Caledonia and Loyalty 

 Islands, but is incomplete (tail wanting) ; another species, Ehi- 

 pidura bulgeri, Lay. 1877, has not yet been recorded from the 

 New Hebrides, but is known only from New Caledonia and 

 Loyalty islands. 



Passeres. 



1. Symmorphus naevius, (Gmel.) 1788. 



Muscicapa naevia, Gmel. Syst. Nat. Ed. XIII, Tom. 1, p. 944 (1788) 

 ex Forster, Icon. Ined. M. S. pl. 159, and Lath. Gen. Syn. Birds, Vol. II, 

 p. 343. 



Symmorphus naevius, Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. Vol. IV (Fam. Campo- 

 phagidaé), p. 110 (1879); Wiglesworth, Av. Polyn. p. 26 (1891). 



2 Specimens. 



A. Female, adult; length of wing 26 mm., tail 62 mm. 



B. Male, immature (nesting plumage). Colour above blackish 

 brown, the tip of each feather with a white spot; rump ful- 

 vescent with dusky bars ; wing-coverts broadly tipped with white, 

 forming two distinct cross bands. Bill blackish above, yel- 

 lowish beneath; testes small, black. 



The stomach contained seeds and other vegetable matter, 

 but no insects. 



2. Bhipidura bulgeri, Lay. 1877. 



Bhipidura bulgeri, Layard, Ibis 1877, p. 360 (1877). 

 Bhipidura bulgeri, Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. Vol. IV (Fam. Musci- 

 capidae), p. 309 (1879); Wigleswortb, Av. Polyn. p. 20 (1891). 



4 Specimens. 



The central tail-feathers have the shafts white for their 

 inner half (or two thirds), but the tips of these feathers are 

 brown-shafted. This species was hitherto not recorded from the 

 New Hebrides. 



