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TIMEL1IDJ5. 



17. MEGALURTJLUS. 



Type. 

 Megalurulus, J. Verr. N. Arch. Mus. v., JBull. p. 17, pi. vi. 



fig. 2 (1869) M. mariei. 



Bange. New Caledonia. 



1. Megalurulus mariei. 



Megalurulus marise, J. Verr. N. Arch. Mua. \., Bull. p. 17, pi. vi. 



fig. 2 (1869) ; Marie, Actes Soe. Linn. Bordeaux, xxvii. p. 327 



(1870). 

 Megalurulus mariei, E. L. S; L. C. Layard, Ibis, 1882, p. 511. 



Adult male. General colour above warm brown, a little more 

 rufesceut on the rump ; lesser and median wing-eoverts like the 

 back, the greater scries a little more rufous on their margins ; quills 

 sepia-brown, externally rufous-brown, the secondaries with indi- 

 stinct dusky cross bars under certain lights ; upper tail-coverts 

 reddish brown ; tail-feathers reddish brown, margined with rufoiis 

 and with dusky cross bars under certain lights ; crown of head 

 rufous-brown, slightly contrasting with the back ; lores dusky 

 blackish, as also the feathers below the eye ; a white eyebrow, very 

 distinct, extending from the base of the nostril and tinged with 

 grey above the ear-coverts ; eyelid dusky, except Avhere it adjoins 

 the eyebrow, where it is white ; ear-coverts dark brown ; cheeks 

 and throat pure white : sides of neck brown washed with ashy ; 

 fore neck and chest light tawny buff; breast and abdomen white; 

 sides of breast washed with light tawny buffi and brown ; flanks 

 fulvous-brown ; thighs fulvous-brown externally, white internally ; 

 under tail-coverts fulvous-brown ; under wing-coverts white, mot- 

 tled with blackish bases ; axillaries white, washed with fulvous- 

 brown ; quiUs ashy brown below, the inner edge of the quills paler 

 ashy ; " bill dark horn-colour ; legs reddish brown ; iris brown " 

 {E. L. L(njard). Total length 7-5 inches, culmen 0-75, wing 2-75, 

 tail 3-6, tarsus 1. 



Adult female. Very like the male in colour, but paler, especially 

 on the fore neck, which is very light fulvous ; the back also tiuged 

 with olive, and the inner tail-coverts brown edged with whitish ; 

 " legs light brown ; iris reddish brown " {E. L. Layard). Total 

 length 7*2 inches, culmen 0-65, wing 2-55, tail 3-3, tarsus 0'95. 



Hah. New Caledonia. 



a. S ad. sk. Moindu, New Caledonia, E. L. Layard, Esq. [C.]. 



Nov. 1, 1880. 



b. $ ad. sk. Moindu, Oct. 19, 1881. E. L. Layard, Esq. [C], 



