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Dr. R. B. Sharpe on Birds 
No. 65. $ ad. Ambryn, June 26, 1899. 
Dr. Forbes has kindly sent me the type of Mr. Layard^s 
A. rufipennis, which, unlike the majority of the Layardian 
types, is not in the British Museum, but in the Tristram 
Collection in the Liverpool Museum. It is a specimen sent 
from Vate in alcohol, and the birds from Ambryn and 
Espiritu Santo are evidently identical. It seems to me to 
be this same bird which is figured in the “ Voyage of the 
f Astrolabe * ” as Lamprotornis zelandica (pi. 9. fig. 1). 
In ‘ The Ibis 9 for 1894 (p. 31) Canon Tristram has 
recorded A. rufipennis from Santa Cruz Island; but I find 
that the two specimens from that island in the Tristram 
Collection, lent me by Dr. Forbes, really belong to a different 
species. Having drawn the attention of Dr. Forbes to this 
fact, I am glad to say that he agrees with me as to their dis¬ 
tinctness, and has described the Santa Cruz species as 
A. maocwelli (Bull. Liverp. Mus. ii. p. 116.). 
Ptilopus greyi Bp. ; Wiglesw. t. c. p. 263; Salvad. Cat. 
B. Brit. Mus. xxi. p. 85 (1893) ; Sharpe, Hand-1. B. i. p. 56 
(1899). 
No. 5. Juv. Sandwich Bay, Mallicollo, May 12, 1899.—Bill 
green ; feet pink ; iris golden. 
No. 15. A ad. Sandwich Bay, May 17, 1899.—Bill apple- 
green ; feet dusky pink ; iris dark with golden ring. 
No. 27. (J ad. Mallicollo, May 19,1899.—Feet dirty purple- 
red. 
No. 52. ? imm. Fila, Efate [Yatd], June 15, 1899.—Bill 
green ; feet dirty brownish pink; iris golden. 
No. 104. <$ juv. Terebin, Big Bay, Espiritu Santo, Sept. 7, 
1899. 
No. 118. ? ? ad. Hoy Head, Espiritu Santo, Sept. 18, 
1899. No. 118. ? ad.—Bill dark apple-green. Stomach 
full of small seeds. 
Sylphitreron tannensis (Lath.) ; Sharpe, Hand-1. B. i. 
p. 59 (1899). 
Ptilopus tannensis Wiglesw. t. c. p. 247 ; Salvad. Cat. B. 
Brit. Mus. xxi. p. 127 (1893). 
