collected or observed in the New Hebrides. 269 
Halcyoninse I observe that the under wing-coverts seem to 
grow pure white with age, while in immature birds they are 
more or less cinnamon-colour. I have received a large series 
of H. julice from Aneiteum, and also several specimens of H. 
sancta from the same place.—H. B. T.] 
[Note. —Samoa. Halcyon pealeiy F. & H. I have a soli¬ 
tary example of this bird from Tutuila, the only place where 
it is found in the Navigators^ Islands, kindly procured for me 
by Mr. Whitmee. The sex was not marked; but I think it a 
female. Sharpe, I remember, unites this with H, sacra ; and, 
except that it has more white about the head than that bird, 
I see no difference. In this species the under wing-coverts are 
pure white; in Halcyon recurvirostra, Lafr, in the male pale 
cinnamon, in the female just washed. 
Tonga. Halcyon sacra ^ , et juv. Under-coverts en~ 
pure white. In my Fijian male the flanks, nuchal collar, 
and eyebrow are, more or less, cinnamon. In my Tongan 
male, adult, these parts are white, as in the female, while a 
young male shows traces of the cinnamon.—E. L. L.] 
5. CoLLOCALIA UROPYGIALIS, G. B. G. 
6. CoLLocALiA LEucopYGiA, Wall., and 
7. CoLLOCALIA -? 
These three Swiftlets were universally distributed on all the 
islands visited.—L. L. 
Only three specimens were brought by L. L., one of each 
species. The flrst two accord well with New-Caledonian 
birds, which I identify as above. The third, and last, is like 
nothing that I have seen in Fiji, Samoa, or Tonga. It is 
larger and more robust than any I have from these places, 
and is of a uniform smoky dark drab, with no white patch on 
the rump. I feel sure that I saw a bird of this species pass 
over my head as I sat in a window of my present residence. 
A number of the common Swiftlet (C. leucopygia) were flying 
about; and as the bird in question passed I instantly detected 
its much larger size and square form, and the absence of the 
white uropygium. It appeared to me also that the shape of 
the tail, as it spread it, was different; but I had but a momen¬ 
tary glance of this. On seeing the bird brought from the 
