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Total length 1 L'o inches, culmen 1-1, wing 3-75, tail 5-1, tarsus 

 1-7. 



A young bird appears to be dusky blackish below, through which 

 the ochraceous-brown plumage is appearing. It further differs from 

 the adult iu having the throat white, the head reddish brown, with 

 scarcely any indicatiou of the brighter forehead beyond a dull greyish 

 shade above the lores. The general tone of the plumage also is 

 much dullej-, especially as regards the brilliant golden-brown edges 

 to the cjuills and tail-feathers. 



Hah. Malayan peninsula, as high as Province Wellesley ; Sumatra. 



a. Juv. sk. Malacca. Purchased. 



h, c, d. Ad. sk. Malacca {Cantor). India Museum. 



e,f. Ad. sk. Malacca. W. Harvey, Esq. [P.]. 



2. Eupetes cserulescens. 



Eupetes cferulescens, Temm. PI. Col. ii. pi. o74 (18;^5) ; Mull. Nat. 

 Gesch. Lmid-en Vulk. p. 22 (1839-1844); Grai/, Gm.B. i. p. 208 

 (1846) ; Bi). Consp. i. p. 2-52 (18.J0) ; Sclafer, Proc. Lmn. Soc. 

 ii. p. 158 (1858) ; Grai/. P. Z. S. 1858, p. 191 ; id. Cat. Mamm. 

 4r. A>w Guinea, pp. 25, 66 (1859) ; id. P. Z. S. 1861, p. 434 ; 

 Wall. P. Z. S. 1862, p. 165; Poseni. J.f. O. 1864, p. 119; Finsc/i, 

 Ni'u-Guinen, p. 107 (1865) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 267, no. 8914 

 (18(59); Sclater, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 036; Gmdd, B. Neiv Guinea, 

 part iii. (1876) ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Geitov. x. p. 147 (1877), 

 xvi. p. 187 (1880) ; id. Orn. Papimsia S,-c. p. 413 (1881). 



Xotodela cferulescens, Less. Comjjl. Buff., Ois. p. 422 (1838) ; id. 

 Eev. Zool. 1839, p. 225 (1881). 



Adult. General colour above grejish blue, the wing-coverts like 

 the back : bastard wing, primary-coverts, and quills blackish, ex- 

 ternally edged with greyish blue, the inner secondaries like the back ; 

 tail greyish blue ; lores, feathers below the eye, and ear-coverts 

 blue, extending down the sides jof the neck and encircling the 

 throat, which, with the cheeks, is pure white ; remainder of under 

 surface of body greyish blue like the back ; under wing-coverts and 

 axillarics greyish blue, the lower series ashy, washed with greyish 

 blue ; quills dusky below, more ashy along the inner web ; " bill 

 black; feet lead-colour; iris black" (D'AJbcrtis). Total length 

 9 inches, culmen 0-95, wing 3-35, tail 3-8, tarsus i-15. 



The female is like the male. 



Bal>. New Guinea. 



a. Ad. >k. New Guinea. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



3. Eupetes nigricrissus. 



Eupetes nigricrissus, Salrad. Ann. Mug. Civic. Genov. ix. p. 36 (1876) ; 

 b' Albert, l^f Salvad. op. cit. xiv. p. 87 (1879) ; Batnsay, Pioc. 

 Linn. Soc. X. S. W. iii. p. 277 (1879), iv. p. 98 (1879) ; S/tarpe, 

 Joxirn. Linn. Soc. xiv. p. 032 (1879); Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. 

 Genov. xvi. p. 187 (1^80) ; id. Orn. Papuasia, ii. p. 413 (1881). 



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