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Description of a new species of the genus Lamprolia, Finnch ; 



from Fiji. 



Lamprolia klinesmithi, Sp. Nov. 



Adult Male — The whole of the upper and under surface of the 

 body and of the wings, and the under tail-coverts, velvety shining- 

 black, glossed with a rich metallic steel-blue lustre, except on the 

 lower part of the abdomen, and under surface of the tail and 

 wings, and on the upper surface of the primaries and inner portion 

 of the secondaries. The marginal half of the outer webs of the 

 secondaries, fringe-like and open, and glossed with steel blue ; the 

 two centre tail feathers and the outer webs of the remainder, 

 except the outermost on either side, similarly fringed ; the tip of 

 the feathers on the lower part of the rump, and the whole of the 

 upper tail-coverts glistening silky-white, the centre two tail 

 feathers slightly shorter than the next on either side, silky-white, 

 with a small bracket-shaped mark of glossy-black margining the tip, 

 the next on either side more largely tipped with black, which extends 

 above half-way down the margin only of the inner web, the remainder 

 of the feathers similarly marked, the black increasing and 

 extending along the outer margins of both webs, the white 

 decreasing, until on the outermost feather on either side it is 

 reduced to a small triangular white spot near the base, the 

 remaining portion of the feather being black, with a purple gloss 

 on the outer web ; bill, legs and feet black ; iris, dark brown. 

 Total length, 3 - 75 inches ; wing, 2*7 ; tail, 1*8 ; tarsus, 0.73 ; bill 

 from the forehead, 0*5 ; from gape, 065 ; from nostril, 0-4. 



Habitat., Vanua Levu, Fiji. — Confined to the mountains, in 

 scrubs. 



Ornithologists will, I am sure, congratulate Mr. Klinesmith, of 

 Levuka, on the discovery of this very beautiful and interesting 

 bird ; the second of this remarkable genus which his exertions 

 have made known to science — the first, and type of the genus, 

 which was described by Dr. O. Finsch, from specimens forwarded 

 by Mr. Klinesmith, in 1873, was named L. Victoria?,* and is, on 



* P. Z. Soc, Lon., 1873, Pt. in, p. 735. 



