340 TIMELIID^. 



Eupetes ca^iulescens, Bamsay {nee Tcmm.), Froc. Linn. Soc, 

 N. S. JV. iv. p. 91 (1870). 



Adult male. General colour above ashy blue, the wing-covei'ts 

 like the back ; bastard-wing feathers, primary-coverts, and quills 

 black, externally slightly fringed with blue, the secondaries ex- 

 ternally washed with blue like the back ; tail-feathers blue ; nasal 

 plumes, lores, eyelid, feathers below the eye, and ear-coverts black, 

 extending in a band down the sides of the neck and forming a 

 collar across the fore nock, so as to encircle the throat, which s 

 ])urc white, as well as the cheeks ; under surface of body a little 

 duller ashy blue than the upper surface ; under tail-coverts slaty 

 blue, becoming black towards their ends ; under wing-coverts and 

 axillaries dingy leaden blue, the edge of the wing black ; quills 

 blackish below, ashy along the edge of the inner web ; " bill and 

 feet black ; iris chestnut " (D'Albertis). Total length 8-5 inches, 

 culmen 0*9, wing 3"5, tail 3-G5, tarsus 1*2. 



Adult female. Similar to the male iii colour, but a little smaller, 

 and having a distinct streak above the eye, reaching from the base 

 of the nostril to above the sides of the hind neck. Total length 

 7*5 inches, culmen 0'8, wing 3'3, tail 3'7, tarsus I'l. 



llah. South-eastern New Guinea. 



a,h. (S 2 ad. sk. Port Moresby, S.E, Mr. Kendal Broadbent [C.]. 



New Guinea. 

 c. Ad. sk. Astrolabe mountains. Mr. A. Goldie [C.]. 



4. Eupetes castanonotus. 



Eupetes castanonotus, Salvad. An7i. Mus. Civic. Genov. vii. p. 966 

 (1875), xvi. p. 187 (1880) ; id. Orn. Papttasia etc. ii. p. 411 (1881) ; 

 Goidd, B. New Guinea, ]xirt xiv. (1883). 



Eupetes pulcher, Sharps, Jouni. Linn. Soc. xvi. pp. 319, 440 (1882). 



Adult male. General colour above rich chestnut, including the 

 hinder head and neck, mantle, and back ; lower back, rump, and 

 npper tail-eoverts blue ; scapulars blue, washed with light reddish, 

 with paler shaft-lines, indications of which are also seen on the 

 feathers of the mantle ; wing- coverts bright blue ; bastard wing- 

 feathers black ; primary- coverts black, edged with blue ; quills black, 

 the primaries slightly, the secondaries more plainly washed with 

 blue externally, the innermost with olive-brown ; tail dull blue, 

 brighter blue on the edges of the feathers ; base of forehead and 

 lores black, succeeded by a band of dull blue across the forehead, 

 and forming a distinct eyebrow, which extends to behind the ear- 

 coverts, which are black ; cheeks, lower portion of ear-coverts, and 

 entire throat pure white, narrowly edged with a line of black, in- 

 creasing in extent on the fore neck ; remainder of under surface 

 bright blue ; the under tail-coverts blue, with a broad spot of black 

 at the ends ; under wing-coverts and axillaries blackish, the outer 

 ones washed with blue ; quiUs ashy blackish below. Total length 

 9 inches, culmen 1-05, wing 3-7, tail 4-3, tarsus 1-35. 



