collected or observed in the New Hebrides, 271 
I identify this bird with that described by the late Mr. G. 
R. Gray in the Cruise of the Cura 9 oa;^ but the figure is 
coloured much too green on the back. The figure of Z. sia~ 
mensis (Ibis^ 1876, p. 350, pi. x.) much more nearly resembles 
our bird.—E. L. L. 
13 & 14. Merula --? 
Two Blackbirds were seen :—a very dark one on Am- 
brym, which I thought resembled the Samoan bird, T. vani- 
korensis; and a brown one on St. Bartholomew, which more 
resembled in colour those I shot on Yanua Levu (M. tempesti, 
Layard). They had the usual Blackbird call and habits. 
—L. L. 
15. Myiagra melanura, G. B. Gray. 
This Broad-billed Flycatcher was distributed through all 
the islands visited. Their habits resembled those of the New- 
Caledonia birds. I found them more about the bush skirting 
the seashore than in the inland forest. Iris dark brown; bill 
ashy blue; legs and feet black.—L. L. 
Among the specimens brought the Erromango bird has a 
conspicuously smaller bill, but is otherwise not distinguishable. 
The bill of the New-Caledonian bird, M. viridinitens, G. R. 
Gray, is just intermediate between the two; but that species 
can at once be separated from them by the white feathers in 
the tail, which in M, melanura are wanting. Canon Tristram 
{loc. cit.) alludes to the rich chestnut of the female. He 
has been led into error here by his correspondents. L. L. 
brought a female with the same black-coloured chest as the 
male; and the sexes of our allied M. viridinitenSj G. R, Gray, 
are identical. The chestnut-chested bird is distinct; what 
it is I do not know, as L. L. only saw it. It is probably 
allied to, if not identical with, M, caledonica, G. R. Gray, in 
which both sexes, as in the Samoan M. albiventris, are chest¬ 
nut; or it may be M. vanicorensis, Q. et G.—E. L. L. 
[Note. —I have before me specimens of both the black- and 
the chestnut-breasted Flycatcher from Samoa, Fiji, New Cale¬ 
donia, and New Hebrides. I have very possibly been led into 
error by my correspondents respecting the New-Hebrides 
