20 CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE ZOOLOGY OF NEW GUINEA, 



Erytliura trichroa, var ? 



All the upper and under surface grass-green, slightly paler on 

 the under surface, the forehead and sides of the face extending 

 over the ear-coverts blue ; wings blackish brown, outer webs above 

 of the quills margined with green, the inner webs below dull buff ; 

 underwing-coverts buff ; thighs buff ; tail blackish brown ; the 

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

 the outermost two, are margined with dull red ; upper tail-coverts 

 dull red ; under tail-coverts green ; bill black ; legs dull brown. 

 Length, 4 to 5 inches; wing, 2*5; tail, 1*9 ; tarsus, - 7 ; bill, 

 0-5 ; gape, 0-53. 



This species is closely allied to if not identical with E. trichroa, 

 Kittl, but my specimens differ from Mr. Wallace's description of 

 E. modesta in not having any yellow on the sides of the neck. 



Eurostopodus Astrolabse, nov. sp. 

 Head and neck dark brown, the feathers centred by a lanceolate 

 stripe of black and freckled with ashy ; those on the hind neck 

 margined or tipped here and there with rufous ; small feathers in 

 front of the eye above and below, and on the throat and the ear- 

 coverts black strongly tipped with rufous; a black streak below 

 the eye, scapulars and adjacent feathers of the interscapular region 

 rich light rufous, heavily blotched exteriorly with black, the rufous 

 portions freckled with narrow zigzag and wavy lines of black ; the 

 larger series of the scapulars blackish with ill-defined rufous cross- 

 bands, the adjacent secondaries blackish-brown, banded only on 

 the inner webs with rufous, the bands reduced to spots and finally 

 lost on the three first secondaries ; primaries blackish brown, the 

 median ones only with one to two rufous dots on the margin of 

 the outer web ; no trace of the white blotch usually found on the 

 wings of other species known. The upper wing-coverts blackish 

 brown tipped with rufous and white ; the back, rump and upper 

 tail-coverts dark brown, marked with ashy and pale rufous, and 

 indistinctly barred with black lateral expansions of the central 

 black line ; tail blackish brown, barred strongly on the inner webs 

 and spotted on the outer, with rufous irregular markings ; the 



