92 TIMELIIDJE. 



Lamprolia klinesmithii, Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, i. 

 p. 68 (1876). 



Resembles L. victorice, but is about a third smaller, and the head 

 is entirely covered with the brilliant blue feathers. (Layard, I. c.) 



On comparison it does not appear that there is any difference 

 about the head, as the brilliant blue feathers entirely cover the 

 head of the male of both species ; but L. minor, besides being 

 much smaller, may be distinguished by the white on the two middle 

 tail-feathers reaching nearly to the tip, while in L. victorice^ the 

 white does not go so far towards the tip, so that the black tip is 

 more extended. Total length 117 millim., wing 62, tail 41, bill from 

 front 12, tarsus 19. (Salvadori, I. c.) 



Hab. Vanua Levu, Fiji Islands. 



10. TRICHIXUS. 



Type. 



Trichixus, Lesson, Rev. Zool. 1839, p. 167 T. pyrrhopjgus. 



Turdirostris, A. Hay, Maclr. Journ. xiii. pt. 2, p. 163 



(1844) T. pyrrhopygus. 



Range. Malacca and Borneo. 



1. Trichixus pyrrhopygus. 



Trichixos p^Trhopvga, Less. Rev. Zool. 18.39, p. 137 ; Blyth, Cat. B. 



Mils As.' Soc., App. p. XX (1849) ; JLorsf. ^- Moore, Cat. B. Mus. 



E.L Co. i. p. 404 (1854) ; Moore, P. Z. S. 1854, p. 275. 

 Turdirostris superciliaris, A. Hay, Muclr. Journ. xiii. pt. 2, p. 163 



(1844) ; Bh/tk, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 145 (1849) ; ^^. CWm/j. i. 



p. 217 (1850). 

 Macronus superciliaris, Gray, Gen. B. iii., App. p. 9 (1849). 

 Napothera pyrrhomelanura, S. Midi. MSS. in Mus. Luyd. 

 Napothera pyrrhonota, Temm. in Mus. Lmjd. ; Sundev. Av. Meth. 



Tent. p. 8 (1872). 

 Myiolestes pyrrhonota, Bp. Consp. i. p. 358 (1850). 

 Macronus pyrrhopygus, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 319, no. 4780 (1869). 

 Trichixus pyrrhopygus, Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 224 ; Sliarpe, Ibis, 1877, 



p. 12 ; id. Ibis, 1878, p. 415 ; Hume, Str. F. 1878, p. 61; id. Str. 



F. 1880, p. 129. 



Adult. Above dark slate-colour, the scapulars and median and 

 lesser wing-coverts like the back ; greater wing-coverts and quiUs 

 dusky blackish, washed with slaty grey externally ; the margins to 

 the primaries paler; rump, upper tail-coverts, and tail-feathers 

 orange-rufous, the latter a little darker, and having a broad black 

 band" at the tips, the centre tail-feathers having a little more black 

 on them than the others, the black also extending a little way up 

 the outer web of the last rectrix ; sides of face, throat, and chest 

 dark .slate-colour like the head, relieved by a conspicuous longitu- 

 dinal spot of white over the eye ; remainder of under surface of 

 body light orange-rufous, the centre of the breast and abdomen 

 much paler whitish, washed with Light rufous the thighs and under 



