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These specimens are to be described in detail in the ‘ Novitates 
Zoologicae/ 
The lion. Walter Rothschild made some remarks on 
the Lalage of the Samoan Islands, which he proposed to call 
LaLAGE SHARPEl, sp. 11. 
Bill yellow, tip brownish, upper surface greyish brown, 
sides of rump white, remiges deep brown edged with dirty 
white. Tail deep brown, all the feathers except the central 
pair tipped with w'hite, the two outer pairs white for the 
apical third. Underside white, with many pale brown cross- 
bars oil sides of breast and flanks ; under tail-coverts white ; 
under wing-coverts creamy white. “ Iris white.” Wing 
77-81 mm., culmen 19-20, tail 55-60, tarsus 21. 
Hab. Upolu, Samoa. 
Mr. Rothschild observed ; — “ Dr. Sharpe Avas the first to 
draw attention to this bird (Cat. B. iv. p. 98), but he con- 
sidered it to be the young of the Lalage pacifica. However, 
the young examples of that species now exhibited from tlic 
same place prove it to be quite distinct, being dark brown 
above and heavily barred below. I am convinced that the 
type of my new species is fully adult, and that the immature 
plumage will prove to be equally distinct. 
“ The bill of Lalage sharpei is longer, narrower, and 
more flattened than in L. pacifica.” 
The lion. Walter Rothschild further exhibited and re- 
marked on some specimens of typical Cracticus (juogi, Lesson, 
from Ncav Guinea, and also on three specimens of what had 
hitherto been called C. quoyi from Queensland. In the birds 
from New Guinea the young were black, like the adult birds, 
Avhile in the Queensland bird Ihe young was reddish brown and 
striped. The latter had been lately described as a new species 
under the name of Cracticus rvfescens. It was by no means 
definitely ascertained whether these rufous birds were the only 
form of the young on the Australian continent, and therefore 
Mr. Rothschild did not Avish to decide as to the validity or 
otherwise of Mr. Dc Vis’s Cracticus rufescens ; but the fact 
