374 Bulletin of the British 
These specimens are to be described in detail in the ‘ Novitates 
Zoologies/ 
The Hon. Walter Rothschild made some remarks on 
the Lalage of the Samoan Islands, which he proposed to call 
Lalage sharpei, sp. n. 
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 white, the two outer pairs white for the 
apical third. Underside white, with many pale brown cross¬ 
bars on 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 was 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 the 
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. 33 
The Hon. Walter Rothschild exhibited and remarked 
on some specimens of typical Cracticus quoyi, Lesson, from 
New Guinea, and also on three specimens of what had 
hitherto been called C. quoyi from Queensland. In the bird 
from New Guinea the young was black, like the adult> while 
in the Queensland bird ihe young w r as reddish brown and 
striped. The latter had been lately described as a new species 
under the name of Cracticus rufescens. 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 wish to decide as to the validity or 
otherwise of Mr. De Yis^s Cracticus rufescens; but the fact 
