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with a slight steel bine tinge, deep metallic green on the npper part, the two last 

 feathers showing this colour, the s])eciilum hroadly Ijordered with white in front and 

 behind. Under i)arts buffy white, sparingly variegated with ronnd brown sjwts on 

 the lower part of the abdomen and under tail-coverts ; sides of body broadly 

 barred with brownish black. Under wing-coveits white and black, the greatest 

 ashy grey. Axillaries white, with a few black spots near the shaft. Feet (in skin) 

 yellowish brown, webs deej] brown. 



Total length about 17^ inches; wing 7-6, tail 4-8, lateral tail-feather TS shorter, 

 tarsus To, middle toe with claw 'i-'iC), culmcn 1-4, breadth of bill at base 0'65. 



I/ab. Island of Waigiu. 



A single skin with the label, "No. 8, <S , Waigeou, l'u]H)easie," was received 

 with a large collection of skin^ made in N.W. New Guinea and the adjacent islands 

 by the late Mr. Brnijn, of Ternate. Out of the same collection Mr. Rothschild 

 has already described a new pigeon, PtUoptis sahudorii {Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, iii., 

 p. 10, 1892), from Jobi, and a new mammal, Acrobates pulchellus [Proc. Zool. Soc, 

 1892, p. 546). Besides this we may mention that the same collection contained three 

 specimens from Waigiu and Arfak, N. Guinea, of a Nyroca not previously recorded 

 from these regions, which Count Salvadori recognized as belonging to Nyroca baeri 

 (Radde). 



