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also with remains of linear shaft lines ; quills of the wings and 

 tail barred by 8 to 10 blackish-brown bars, which do not reach 

 the margin of the inner webs, margin and bases of the inner 

 webs white, or faintly tinged with buff on the primaries, all the 

 tail feathers barred except the centre two ; central portions of the 

 scapulars white, with remains only of the bars. Bill, 0*9 ; 

 culmen, 1 in. ; length, 13 in. ; wing, 7 - 5 ; tail, 6*5 ; tarsus, 2*3; 

 bill and claws, black ; base of lower mandible, cere, and legs, 

 orange-yellow ; sex, <$ ?. 



Hob. Inland from Port Moresby, about 40 miles. 



I have given a description of this bird, as I am not quite 

 convinced that it is altogether identical with the Astur spilothoraz 

 of Count Salvadori. 



NlNOX TERRICOLOR, S]). flOV. 



All the upper surface of the body, head, wings, and tail dark 

 uniform earthy-chocolate brown, the basal portion of the feathers 

 of a dull, dark-slaty hue ; the wings and tail of a slightly lighter 

 tint, barred with the same hue as the back, the bars extending 

 quite across both webs and edging the inner webs of the quills, 

 which become white at the base, except on the first four or five 

 primaries, which are brown to the base ; the whole interspaces 

 thus enclosed forming a row of oval blotches, gradually becoming 

 smaller towards the tips of the feathers, which are brown ; the 

 tail feathers similarly marked, the interspaces white at the base, 

 brown at the tip, bars on wings and tail at 8 to 10, a few scattered 

 spots of whitish on the scapulars, remains of the white inter- 

 spaces ; throat scantily clothed with dull brown feathers ; lores, 

 with stiff feathers, black at the tips ; sides of the neck, chest, 

 sides of the body and breast, dark reddish-chocolate brown ; the 

 abdomen and the flanks tipped with the same tint, the concealed 

 portions of the feathers barred with fulvous-white — at the tip in 

 the margins only ; legs of a lighter tint of chocolate-brown, in- 

 clining to fulvous ; under tail-coverts fulvous; margins of the wings 



