338 TIMELIIB^. 



a. S ad. sk. Fly river. Gould Collection. 



b. (S ad. sk. Inland from Port Moresby. Mr. Kendal Broadbent 



[C.]. 



c. 2 ad. sk. Goldie river, S.E. New Guinea. Mr. A.Goldie [C.]. 

 rf.cJ juv.sk. East Cape (^zMts^em). Gould Collection. 



e. $ ad. sk. East Cape. Mr. C. Huustein [C.]. 



3. EUPETES. 



Type. 

 Eupetes, Tetiim. PI. Col. livr. 87 (1831) E. macrocercus. 



llamje. Malayan peninsula ; New Guinea. 



Key to the Sjjecies. 



a. Throat deep chestnut macrocercus, p. 338. 



b. Throat white. 



a '. Lores black. 



«". Back blue like the belly. 



«'". Under tail-coverts plain blue cceridescem, p. 339. 



b'" . Under tail-coverts blue with black tips iiif/ricrissus, p. 339. 



b". Back chestnut; belly blue castanonotHs,^p. 340. 



b'. Lores white ; upper surface brown incertus, p. 341. 



c. Throat black ; back oily gi-een leucostictus, p. 342. 



1. Eupetes macrocercus. 



Eupetes macrocercus, Temm. PL Col. ii. pi. 616 (1831) ; Gray, Gen. 

 B. i. p. 208 (1846) ; Strickl. P. Z. S. 1846, p. 102 ; Blyth, Cat. B. 

 Mus. As. Soc. p. 158 (1849) ; Bp. Consjj. i. p. 252 (1850) ; Horsf. 

 S,- Moore, Cat. B. E.I. Co. Mus. i. p. 395 (1854) ; Gray, Hcmd-l. 

 B. i. p. 267, no. 3912 (1869) ; Stoliczkn, J. A. S. Beng. xxxix. 

 p. 305 (1870) ; Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 65 ; Sulvad. Ann. Mus. 

 Civic. Genov. xiv. p. 233 (1879) ; Forbes, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 837. 



Adult. General colour above reddish brown, the plumage very 

 full and loose, especially on the rump, the upper tail-coverts a 

 little more reddish brown ; tail reddish brown, more ochraceous ou 

 the margins; wings ochraceous brown with a slight olive tint, the 

 coverts and quills margined with golden or "rhubarb"'-brown colour, 

 the quills dusky brown on their inner webs ; forehead rich ochra- 

 ceous buff, the vertex and crown chestnut-red, narrowing on the 

 nape and hind neck, and bordered on each side by a white band 

 which springs from above the eye ; this is followed by another 

 broader band of black, which includes the lores, cheeks, lower mar- 

 gin of eyelid, sides of face, and ear-coverts, and accompanies the 

 foregoing white band down the sides of the neck ; throat and fore 

 neck rich chestnut ; rest of under surface of bod)' yellowish or 

 ochraceous brown, the breast enlivened by a slight wash of the 

 chestnut-colour of the throat, the abdomen washed with grey ; 

 under wing-coverts like the back ; quills ashy brown, shaded 

 lighter along the edge of the inner web ; " bill black ; feet slate- 

 colour j ii'is brown; lower part of face clear azure blue "' (Bcccari). 



