2. JIYIOPHOXKUS. 7 



d". Larger : no bright sliouldf>r-spot ; glisten- 

 ing ends of feathers obsolete ; bill blackish, 

 horu-coloured at the tip and on the lower 



mandible dicrorhynchus, p. 10. 



e". Smaller : with a bright shoulder-spot of 

 deep cobalt or ultramarine blue ; bill 

 entirely blick. 

 a'". Head and mantle entirely black, with- 

 out any blue shade. 

 a*. Glistening edges to the feathers 

 scarcely perceptible on the chest, but 

 very distinct on the lower breast . . hursjieldi, p. 10. 

 h^. Fore neck and chest broadly edged 

 with enamelled blue, like the re- 

 mainder of the breast huidaris, p. 11. 



b'". Head and mantle purplish blue like the 

 rest of the upper surface ; under sur- 

 face similarly coloured cyanens, p. 12. 



c'". Head black : mantle-feathers tipped 

 with purplish blue. 

 c*. Forehead and sides of crown purplish 



blue melanunis, p. 12. 



d*. Forehead and sides of crown black 



like the rest of the head ... bliyhi, p. 13. 



d' . Tail chestnut like the back castaneus, p. 14. 



1. Myiophoneus flavirostris. 



Turdus flavirostris, Jlorsf. Trans. Linn. Sue. xiii. p. 149 (1822). 



Myiophoneus metallicus, Temvi. 11. CvL ii. pi. 170 (1823). 



Mviophoneus flavirostris, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 214 (lb46); Bji. Consp. 

 i. p. 258 (1.-.58) : Horsf. 8;' Moore, Cat. B. F.I. Co. Mm. i. p. 198 

 (1854) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 264, no. 3857 (1809). 



Adult. General colour above purplish black, with uearly obsolete 

 glistening tips, a little more distinct on the lesser coverts, where, 

 however, they do not form a shoulder-patch ; the median series with 

 white spots at the tip ; quills and tail-feathers black, the latter 

 elightly washed with purjjlish blue ; sides of face and under surface 

 of body purplish black, with a few indications of glistening spots at 

 the end of the feathers of the sides of the neck, fore neck, chest, 

 and entire breast ; flanks black, and, like the lower back, relieved 

 by the white bases to the feathers ; under wing-coverts and axil- 

 laries like the breast ; quills black below. Total length 12-5 inches, 

 culmen 1-5, wing 5-8, tail 4*5, tarsus 2-1. 



Hah. Confiined to the island of Java. 



a. Ad.sk. Java [Hurx/ield). India Museum. (Type of species.) 



b. Ad. sk. West .Java'. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.J. 



2. Myiophoneus temmincii. 



M^-iophoneus temminckii, Tiqors, P. Z. S. 1831, p. 171 ; Gould, 

 'Cent. Hhnal. B. pi. 21 (1832) ; Temm. PI. Col. ii. livr. 29* ; Gray, 



* The date of this ' Livraison ' is given in ' The Ibis ' for 1868 as " 1823." 

 This must be wrong, as Teinuiinck refers to Gould's ' Century,' which was not 

 published till 1831 or 1832. 



