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Messrs. E. L. and E. L. C. Layard on 
Turdus pritzbueri, n. sp. 
Male, Entire head^ chin^ throaty and upper part of chest 
very pale sepia; the whole of the rest of the hody^ above and 
below, very dark sepia, some of the feathers of the abdomen 
having pale sepia edges; bill, feet, and legs pale yellow. 
Length 8'^, wing 3^' 7"', tail 3" 3'", tarse 1'' 2^''', bill 13"'. 
Female (probably). Like the male, but the crown of the 
head and lower portion of chest brownish, and general colour 
of body not so dark. 
Young bird. Top of head brown, spotted with rufous; back 
as in female, but faintly spotted with rufous; underparts 
deep warm rufous, spotted and irregularly marked with small 
broken bars of dark sepia. 
This most interesting species is intermediate between 
Merida tempesti, Layard, from Taviuni, and M. bicolovy 
Layard, from Kandavu (Fiji). It approaches nearest to the 
first named, the colours being identical; but the Lifu bird has 
them much more prononce,^^ the light sepia appearing almost 
white by contrast. On taking it to a resident of the Loyalty 
Islands, who is staying with my next-door neighbour (his 
brother-in-law), his wife exclaimed, Oh! we eat lots of 
those, they are splendid ^gibier;^^^ and her servant, a Lifu 
man, standing by, added, Him scrape on ground, all same 
fowl, we call him Wassasa.^^ 
23. Petrceca, sp.. Gray. 
In his ^ Catalogue of the Birds of Tropical Islands ^ (p. 15), 
Mr. Gray calls this P. forsteri [Turdus minuius, Forster) 
and gives the Isle of Pines as its habitat. We have not yet 
seen it. 
24. Gerygone flavolateralis (G. R. Gr.). 
Acanthiza flavodateralis, Gray, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 161. 
[This bird, described by Mr. Gray, and enumerated by M. 
Marie as an AcanthizUy is a very typical Gerygone (see Ibis, 
1877, p. 357).—H. B. T.] 
27. Bhipidura bulgeri, Layard, Ibis, 1877, p. 361. 
[Included by M. Marie as R, albiscapUj Gould, to which 
Australian bird it is closely allied, but distinct. I have com- 
