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hatching them. All the places which I saw had already been 
rifled, so I was unable to make any observations as to the 
position of the eggs. I obtained two good specimens of a bril¬ 
liant little Kingfisher, which has since been named Halcyon 
farquhari (supra, p. 339, PI. VII.), and two of a new Caco- 
mantis , since named C. schistaceigularis. One of the officers 
had shot a bird of this species on a former visit to Hog 
Harbour, so luckily I was able to show the skin to my native 
hunter, who, knowing the whistle of the bird in the forest, 
led me to these two. Here I first became aware that 
Pachycephala chlorura and Eopsaliria cucullata are cock and 
hen, or, as my native called them, u man-bird ” and “ woman- 
bird/'’ of the same species, now named Pachycephala intacta. 
He brought me also their n^st and eggs, three in number, 
of a red cream-colour, with dark brown and faint grey 
markings: 2 5x2 centimetres. The nest was made of 
rootlets and vine-tendrils, slightly bound together with 
spiders' web, and had an inside diameter of 2f inches, an 
outside diameter of 3} inches, an inside depth of If inches, 
outside 2f inches. It was placed on a low tree. I also got 
the eggs of Chalcophaps chrysochlora, which were of a cream- 
white : 2’8 x 2T centimetres. The nest was the usual plat¬ 
form of slight twigs, about 12 feet from the ground. While 
here I came across the nest and young of Colocalia uropygialis. 
The nests were like very shallow half-saucers of green moss 
stuck against the side of a huge coral erratic in the middle 
of the forest. All the eggs were hatched out, but I saw 
pure white fragments of the egg-shells lying at the base of 
the rock. 
I spent a day or two in the Banks Islands, which are 
practically a northern continuation of the New Hebrides, 
from which they can be seen on a clear day. Oddly enough, 
a totally different species of Glyciphila (G. notabilis ) inhabits 
this group, orat any rate VanuaLava, the largest of its islands. 
It seemed quite common, as was also Hypocharmosyna pal - 
marum, which had paired and was feeding in the flowering 
trees, especially among the blossoms of the custard-apple. 
Unfortunately my visit to this group w T as a very short one, 
and I was only able to land once for collecting purposes. 
