3. ETJPETES. 341 



Adult female (Dorei Hum ; Beccari). Diffei's from the male in 

 having the entire upper surface chestnut, without any blue ; the 

 chestnut-colour, however, is much duller than in the male, except 

 on the lower back and rump ; wings as in the male ; cheeks and 

 throat white; remainder of under surface blue, as in the male. Total 

 length 8-5 inches, culmen 1, wing 3"6, tail 3-9, tarsus 1*25 (Mns, 

 Civic. Genov.). 



Ohs. The Marquis Doria having very kindly lent me the types of 

 Count Salvadori's Eupetcs castanonotus, I found, on comparing the 

 types of my E. puldicr, that the two species are not separable. The 

 preparation of Mr. Goldic's skins quite hides the black collar which 

 encircles the white throat; and thus I overlooked this character. 



It seems from the two specimens obtained and sexed by Eeccari, 

 that the female only differs from the male in having the rump and 

 upper tail-coverts chestnut instead of blue, and in being duller in 

 colour. The bird described by me as the adult female of E. pulcher 

 turns out not to have been fully adult. It has the crown of the head 

 dusky brown, the tail dull blue, with the two centre feathers brown, 

 the lores and plumes at the base of the nostril black, surmounted 

 l)y a narrow line of rufous, washed with blue above the eye, and 

 inclining to whitish above the ear-coverts. The dusky brown head 

 and the particoloured eyebrow are both signs of immaturity, as the 

 adult female shot by Beccari has the eyebrow of as bright a blue 

 as the male. The specimen alluded to also has the under tail- 

 coverts spotted with white ; and this I find to be an unfailing mark 

 of nonage. 



In another young bird in the Museum the head is dusky bluish, 

 and the abdominal feathers are fringed with ashy fulvous. 



Hah. New Guinea. 



a. S ad. ; b. 2 imm. Astrolabe mountains, S.E. Mr. A. Goldie [C.]. 



sk. New Guinea. 



c. cf iuim. sk. Astrolabe mountains. Mr. A. Goldie [C.l. 



(I. 2 ivd. ; e,f. .Tuv. sk. Astrolabe mountains. Mr. A. Goldie [C.J. 



5. Eupetes incertus. 



Eupetes incertus, Salvad. Ann. Miis. Civic. Genov. vii. p. 9G7 (IST-j), 



xvi. p. 188 (1880) 

 Eupetes? incertus, Salvad. Orn. Pcqniasia, ii. p. 41.5 (1881). 



Above brownish rufous ; a spot on each side of tlie forehead, 

 throat, and abdomen white ; plumes of the throat margined with 

 dusky ; a broad pectoral band and sides of body rufescent ; under 

 tail-coverts pale rufous ; quills dusky, externally margined with the 

 colour of the back, internally marked near the base with a rufous 

 spot, excepting on the first four primaries ; tail-feathers dusky, 

 brownish rufous on the outer web ; bill and feet dusky. Total length 

 7 inches, wing 3-0(), tail 2-25. bill 0-0, tarsus 1-4. (Sulvadori.) 



J/(il>. Arfak mountains, N.W. New Guinea. 



