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that the Eromanga bird differs considerably in colouring and 
that the lump on the bill is much smaller than in Globicera 
pacifica ; it has now been described as G. farguhari (above, 
p. 349). 
It was at South-west Bay that I first made the ac¬ 
quaintance of Merula mareensis, being attracted by its alarm- 
note, which is very like that of our Common Blackbird; it 
has another note, which may best be described as “ siss, 
siss.^ It was the only bird of the kind I saw there, though 
I afterwards found it fairly common at Hog Harbour, 
Espiritu Santo; it was always extremely wild, and I only 
shot one during my stay in the New Hebrides. Five others 
were snared for me by the natives; all six specimens proved 
unfortunately to be hens. I obtained three or four clutches 
of eggs, all two in number. 
A pretty little green Pigeon ( Ptilopus greyi) was common ; 
also Chalcophaps chrysochlora , which is generally to be found 
feeding on the ground in the native clearings. The inhabi¬ 
tants catch them by means of an ingenious snare constructed 
of twigs, with a noose made of fine fibre. Macropygia rufa 
was frequently met with at South-west Bay, though not in 
such numbers as in cultivated portions of the New Hebrides. 
Twice, while in the islands, a bright yellow dove of this 
genus was described to me, but though an officer of H.M.S. 
‘ Wallaroo ’ once came across it, I failed to obtain a speci¬ 
men ; indeed, by all accounts, it is very rare. 
Butorides stagnatilis and Demiegretta sacra were common 
along the edges of the mangrove lagoon, and I found the 
nests of the latter on a small rocky island, placed on the 
ground, but it was too early for eggs. As I had come to 
South-west Bay in H.M.S. f Wallaroo 3 for the purpose of 
punishing the natives implicated in the murder of a trader, 
it was not safe to stray very far from the ship. My ex¬ 
cursions, consequently, were restricted to below an 800-ft. 
level; indeed I found it difficult while in the islands to get 
above this height—not, as a rule, on account of the natives, 
but generally owing to want of time and to the density of 
the forests and the danger of fever when camping out. 
From South-west Bay I went to Pangkumu, east coast of 
