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417. Very curved black bill. 1.5 inches or more. (]Male with resplendent 



metallic plumage, female brownish.) Birds of Paradise. 418 



Bill not 1.5 inches or not much curved . . . . . . . . 422 



418. Tarsus equal to or longer than bill. Maiiucodia goiildi (]\lanucode). 

 Tarsus shorter than' bill. Rifle-Birds. 419 



419. Length more than 10 inches , . . . , . 420 

 Length 9 inches ; wing 5 inches. 



Plilorhis victoricB (Victoria Rifle-Bird). 



420. Length about 11 inches : wing about 6 inches . . . . 421 

 Length about 12 inches; wing 6.6 inches. (Probably 'in New 



Guinea only.) 



Craspedophora magnifica (Magnificent Rifle-Bird). 



421. Length 11.2 inches ; wing 6 inches. 



Ptilorhis paradisea (Rifle-Bird). 

 Length 11. 5 inches ; w'ing 5.9 inches ; throat with shining scales. 



Craspedophora alherti (Albert Rifle-Bird). 



422. Plumage black and white : face black (male) or white (female). 



Grallina picata (Magpie-Lark). 

 Plumage not black and white . . . . . . . . 423 



423. Plumage black with long forked tail. Chibia hracteata (Drongo). 

 Plumage not as specified . . . . . . . . . . 424 



424. Plumage glossy blue-black, or greenish, or breast boldly streaked 



with brown or black . . . . . . . . 425 



Plumage not blue-black or greenish ; breast not boldly streaked . . 432 



425. Plumage all green, spotted below. Aelurcedus. Cat-Birds. 426 

 Plumage blue-black, or greenish, or streaked . . . . . . 427 



426. Crown of head spotted white. A. maculosiis (Spotted Cat-Bird). 

 Crown of head faintly marked brown. A. viridis (Cat-Bird). 



427. Plumage blue-black (male) or greenish with half-moon marks on 



breast (female and young) ; wing 6.2 inches. 



Ptilonorhynchus violacens (Satin Bower-Bird). 

 Plumage greenish or brownish ; breast streaked or uniform . . 428 



428. Bill orange colour. Oriolus. Orioles. 429 

 Bill black ; back green (male) or brown (female). 



Sphecotheres. Fig-Birds 431 



429. Breast white with bold streaks of black . . . . . . 430 



Breast greenish with thin streaks of black. 



0. fiavicincliis (Yellow Oriole). 



430. Bill 1.2 inches ; wing 6 inches. 0. viridis (Oriole). 

 Ijill 1.3 inches ; wing 5.7 inches 0. affinis (Northern Oriole). 



431. Wing 6.2 inches ; breast green (male) or crown dark (female). 



S. maxillaris (Fig- Bird). 

 Wing 5.7 inches ; breast yellow (male) or crown light (female). 



S. flaviventris (Yellow-bellied Fig-Bird). 



432. Upper and under surfaces similar dark grey ; wings black ; tail 



brown. Striithidea cincrea (Grey Jumjier). 



Upper and under surfaces not dark grey . . . . . . 433 



433. Plumage uniform light grey above, and grey, white, or barred beneath. 



Cuckoo-Shrikes. 434 

 Phmiage not uniform light grey above and not grey, white, or barred 



beneath . . . , . . . . . . . . 441 



