14. sEiucoKxis. 305 



}>, o. Ad. sk. Uape York. Gould Collection. 



p. Juv. sk. Cape York, Oct. 25, 1848 Gould Collection. 



{J. Macffi/livruy) . 



q. Juv.sk. Somerset, Cape York (CocA;- Gould Collection. 



erell). (Type of <S'. mitmnus.) 



r, s. Ad. St. New South Wales. J. Gould, Esq. 



4. Sericornis beccarii. 



Sericornis beccarii, Salvad. Aim. Mus. Civic. Genov. vi. p. 79 (1874), 

 xvi. p. 186 (1880) ; id. Orn. Papuasia etc. p. 407 (1881). 



Adult male (Aru Islands ; Beccari : type of the species). General 

 colour above dark olive-brown, gradually becoming more rufous- 

 brown on the lower back and rump ; the upper tail-coverts deep 

 rusty brown ; lesser wing-coverts like the back ; median and greater 

 coverts and bastard-wing feathers blackish with narrow white tips, 

 the inner greater coverts brown ; primary-coverts black ; quills 

 duslcy brown, with olive edges to the primaries, the secondaries ex- 

 ternally rusty brown ; tail-feathers brown with dusky bars under 

 certain lights, externally washed with reddish brown ; crown of the 

 head a little more dingy than the back, the foi-ehead black, as also 

 the lores, which are surmounted by a white streak ; no eyebrow ; 

 eyelid above and below the eye white ; below the eye a blackish 

 shade ; ear-coverts brown ; cheeks and throat white, the feathers 

 with narrow blackish margins and spots ; remainder of the under 

 surface of the body white slightly tinged with olive-yellow ; the 

 fore neck and chest washed with dusky ; sides of the body and flanks 

 washed with olive-brown ; thighs dusky brown ; under tail-coverts 

 yellowish buff, the long ones brown with broad yellowish-buff 

 uiaigins ; under wing-coverts dusky brown, the ones near the edge 

 of the wing white, spotted with black ; axillaries white ; quills 

 below dusky brown, inner edges asby grey ; " iris cinnabar-red " 

 (Beccari). Total length 7 inches, culmen 0"6, wing 2*35, tail 1-65, 

 tarsus U-85. (Alus. Civic. Genov.) 



5. Sericornis magnirostris. 



Aeanthiza magnirostra, Gould, P. Z. S. 1837, p. 146 ; id. Syn. B. 



Aiistr. part iv. pi. v. tig. 4 (1838). 

 Sericornis magnirostris, Gould, B. Avstr. folio, iii. pi. 52 (1848) ; 



Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 188 (1848) ; Bp. Comp. i. p. 306 (1850); 



Reichenh. Viiq. Neuholl. p. 6i) (1850) ; Gould, Handb. B. Amtr. i. 



p. 362 (1805): Gray, Hand-L B. \. p. 218, no. 3108 (1869); 



Ramsay, P. Z. S. 1875, p. oUO ; id. Proc. Linn. Soc. X. S. Jf. ii. 



p. 185 (1878). 



Adult. General colour above dull olive-grccuisli, the head more 

 umbcr-brown ; rump with concealed subtcrminal marks of silky 

 white on external feathers; upper tail-coverts reddish olive-brown, 

 tlie tail-feathers darker brown with olive-brown edges ; wing-coverts 

 like the back, the bastard-wing feathers and outer greater coverts 

 yellowish white near the tip of the outer web : quills dark brown, 



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