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According to Mr. Pettord, in his notes appended to Mr. Stone's 

 collection {cf. Sharpe, I. c), the Channel-bill Cuckoo was gene- 

 rally distributed near Port Moresby. The first specimens that I 

 have seen from that locality have now come to hand, the species 

 being represented in Mr. Broadbent's and Mr. Lawes's collections, 

 while several specimens are in Mr. Groldie's. 



8. Centeopus nigricans (Salvacl). — C. spilopterus, Sharpe, 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 490 (neo Grcnj)\ JRamsay, I. c. p. 258. — 

 Polophilus nigricans, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. xiii. p. 463. 



The number of specimens which I have now seen of this Cuckoo, 

 bearing out Count Salvadori's characters, convince me that I was 

 wrong in referring the bird to C. spiloptenis of the Ke Islands. 



9. Tanxsipteea syltia, Gould \ Sharpe, Journ. Linn. Soc. xiii. 

 p. 493 ; Salvad. Ann. Mies. Civic. Genov. x. p. 303. — T. vSalvado- 

 riaua, JRamsat/, I. c. p. 259. 



In Mr. Broadbent's collection were several examples, which 

 appear to be quite identical v/ith Cape-Tork specimens. 



10. Tanysiptera microrhyncha, Sharpe, Journ. Linn. Soc. 

 xiii. p. 311. — T. galatea (pt.), Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. x. 

 p. 302. — T. galatea, Bamsaij, I. c. p. 259 {nee Gray). 



I have now examined a large series of the B-acket-tailed King- 

 fisher in the collections both of Mr. Groldie and Mr. Broadbent, 

 and I find the character of the small bill holds good. A certain 

 difi"erence is seen in the blue coloration of the head, some speci- 

 mens having a rich cobalt-brown, inclining to silvery cobalt only 

 on the edges : this is the most plentiful form, and agrees with the 

 type of the species in the Museum. In Mr. Broadbent's collec- 

 tions, however, was a beautiful bird, of the same size as T. micro- 

 rhyncha, but diff*ering in having the back strongly washed with 

 purplish blue, the head and wing-spot rich silvery cobalt. This 

 may be the very old male bird ; and I do not propose to describe 

 a new species from a single example. 



11. Dendrochelidon mystaceus (Less.). — Macropteryx mys- 

 tacea (Less.) ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. x. p. 311 ; Bam- 

 say, I. c. p. 265. 



One specimen collected by Mr. Broadbent, and two in Mr. 

 Goldie's collection. 



12. G-YMNOCORAx SENEX (Lcss.) ; Sharpe, Cat. IB. iii. p. 50. 

 A specimen in grey plumage in Mr. Broadbent's collection. 



