1. PTILOEHIS. 157 



steel-jjjrccn, the next one on each side also glossed with steel-green 

 towards the base ; crown of head and nape metallic steel-green with 

 a slight coppery lustre ; lores, feathers above the eye and sides of 

 face, as well as the chin and the sides of the throat, glossy purple ; 

 from the chin a shield of metallic steel-blue plumes spreads 

 out onto the chest, and is followed by a double band, the first 

 velvety black with a burnished coppery lustre, the second golden 

 green witli an olivaceous lustre ; rest of under surface olivaceous, 

 shaded with reddish purple, especially on the abdomen and Hank- 

 feathers, the latter being elongated into silky plumes, which reach 

 beyond the tail ; under wing- and tail-coverts and vent velvety blue- 

 black ; bill and legs black; iris brown. Total length 12-2 inches, 

 culmen 2-2, wing (rGo, tail 4'25, tarsus 1-65. 



Adult female. Ueneral colour ashy brown on the head and neck, 

 shading into olivaceous brown on the back and rump, slighly tinged 

 with reddish on the upper tail-coverts ; lores, feathers round the 

 eye, aud ear-coverts dusky brown, with slightly indicated shaft- 

 ptreaks of ochraceous, these being also faintly perceptible on the 

 feathers of the crown ; over the eye a broad line of white, forming a 

 distinct eyebrow ; cheeks white, as also the throat, which is sepa- 

 rated from the cheeks by a broad malar streak of blackish ; rest of 

 under surface of body dull white, mottled with cross bars of blackish, 

 much wider apart on the abdomen aud flanks, the feathers of the 

 latter being somewhat elongated ; under wing-coverts like the breast, 

 the cross bars less distinct ; upper wing-coverts like the back, the 

 greater series orange-chestnut, this being also the colour of the 

 quills, which are brown on the inner webs. Total length 11-2 inches, 

 culmen I'tio, wing (3, tail 4'3, tarsus 1'6. 



Obs. Mr. Elliot was quite right in separating this species from 

 the New-Guinea bird. The male is not only smaller, buttlje breast 

 in the latter has not the same olivaceous M'ash, the reddish purple 

 shade appearing to begin immediately below the golden-green 

 collar. The females arc extremely different, that of the New-Guinea 

 bird being nearly uniform rufous above. 



Ifab. North-eastern Australia. 



<', b. cS 2 ''•I- sk. Port Albany. Purchased. 



c. (^ ad. St. Cape York. J. Macgillivray, Esq. [P.]. 



(!, e. 2 id. st. Cape York. J. Macgillivray, Esq. [P.]. 



/• d juv. St. Cape York. Capt. Stanley [P.]. 



//. c? inim. st. Austi-alia. Purchased. 



4. Ptilorhis magnifica. 



Le Prom^fi], Levaill. Ois. tie Farad, p. 36, pi. 16 ; Less. Mus. Zool. 



pi. 29. 

 Falcinellus magnificus, Vieill. N. Diet. (THist. Nat. xx\-iii. p. 167, 



pi. (I 80. no. o. 

 Epiraachus splendidus, Sfeph. Gen. Zool. xiv. p. 77. 

 Epiniachus magnificus, If'ar/lcr, Si/st. Ar. Epimachus, sp. 10 ; Cnvier, 



Rhpte Anim. 1829. p. 440; Z(W. Cent. Zool. p. 22, pis. 4, •'5; id. 



Oik Parad. Si/n. p. 27; id. H. N. Ois. Parad. p. 218, pis. 32-34; 



