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The adult male has the crown and forehead metallic green, while in the 

 female the forehead and often the crown nearly as far as the nape, are chestnut. 



The young in first plumage is very different : Upper surface yellowish brown, 

 head and hind-neck with an ashy tinge. Quills dark brown, basal half of primaries 

 edged and washed with chestnut rufous ; bases of all the quills Imlf, washed with 

 cinnamon-red. Rectrices brown with a wide blackish subtiTiuinal bar ; lateral 

 ones : outer web with two blackish and a white patch near the base, inner web 

 with blackish base, three distinct and an indistinct blackish and three more or 

 less sharply defined white bars on the basal half. Under-snrface greyish buff, 

 under wing-coverts cream-coloured. Bill black, base of lower mandible light, feet 

 very light brown, iris brown. 



Chrysococcyx ruficollis (Salvad.). 

 Lamprococcyx ruficollis Salvadori, Ann. .]/»«. Vic. Gen., vii. p. 913 (1875 : Hatam, Ai-fak). 



3, Aroa River, 5000 ft., January 1000. Ernil 'Weiske coll. 



1 6, Owgarra, Augabnnga River, 0000— 8000 ft., 14. xi. 04. A. S. Meek coll. 

 (No. A 1847.) 



2 cJ?, Bihagi, head of Mambare River, north-east side of Owen Stanley 

 Rauge, 16, 17. ii. 06. A. S. Meek coll. (Nos. A 2435, 2441). 



" Iris reddish brown, feet greenish slate, bill blackish slate." 

 This series of six specimens, evidently all adult, differ from other species of 

 Chri/sococcyx by the sides of the head and neck being cinnamon rufous, the throat 

 and JDgnlum more or less strongly washed with rufous-cinnamon ; the throat and 

 iu"ulnm as well as the rest of the under-surface and under tail-coverts are barred 

 with purplish or sometimes greenish bronze, the bars on the throat being narrower 

 and sometimes evanescent. The upper surface is dark bronzy green, more or 

 less washed with dark purplish bronze. Outer rectrices black, tips, four bars on 

 outer webs and two (sometimes incomplete) bars on inner webs white, the latter 

 partly edged with cinnamon ; second pair blackish, inner webs with a round 

 white spot at the tip and usually two rufous-ciunamon bars, central pair dark 

 metallic green with ill-defined black base and black subapical bar. 



This rare species was hitherto only known from the type from Arfak. It 

 wonld, of course, be desirable to compare a series from the latter place with our 

 series, but at present there is no reason to doubt their identity. 



Chrysococcyx poecilurus Gray. 



Chrysococcyx poecilurue Gray, P.Z.S. 1861. pp. 431, 437 ("Myaol & New Guinea ") (Type from 

 Mysol in Brit. Museum). 



1 <J ad., Mysol, 13. i. 1900. Heinrich Kiihu coll. (No. 1772). "Iris 

 chocolate, eyelids carmine, feet dark plumbeous, bill black." 



1 <J ad., 2 ? ad., 1 S juv., Fergusson Island, May and June 1897. A. S. Meek- 

 coil. (Nos. 349, 391, 421, 555.) 



The young is paler, less greenish above, nnder-snrface, including the under 

 wing-coverts, white, throat washed with dirty bull'. 



1 ? ad., Snngey Bark, Kobroor, Aru Islands, 29. viii. 1900. Heiur. Kiihn coll. 

 (No. 2259). 



We have also specimens from Cape York, collected by D'Albertis and Meek, 

 and one from Atapnpn, Timor, collected by Everett. 



