4. EPiMAcnus. 101 



Adult male. General colour above brown, the rump tawuy chest- 

 nut, shading into fawn-colour on tho upper tail-coverts, the tail 

 being uniform fawn-colour ; wing-coverts chestnut-brown, the rest 

 of the wing paler and more tawny brown, the quills blackish brown 

 on the inner webs, the innermost secondaries pale tawuy brown like 

 the back ; crown of head rich brown \vith a purple gloss ; sides of 

 head bare, with a lin<> of brown feathers drawn across the ear- 

 coverts ; lores and feathers in front of the eye and cheeks velvety 

 brown glossed with purple ; throat rich purplish brown ; rest of 

 the under surface of body chocolate-brown, with a lilac gloss on the 

 breast and abdomen ; across the lower breast a bar of dull green ; 

 from the sides of the chest springs a tuft of fine purple feathers, 

 brown at the base and tip ; from the sides of the breast another long 

 tuft of plumes, chocolate-brown glossed with lilac, each feather 

 tipped with a bar of amethystine purple ; under wing-coverts brown, 

 the innermost of the greater series whitish at the tip ; quills ashy 

 brown, edged with tawny on both webs ; bill blackish ; " iris 

 violesccnt brown " (Beccari). Total length 13-3 inches, culmen 2-8, 

 wing 5-y5, tail 5"5, tarsus 1"4. 



Female. Head chestnut brown ; back and wings rufous brown ; 

 primaries and secondaries blackish brown on inner web, outer web 

 brown ; upper tail-coverts and tail light red ; chin and throat 

 blackish brown, each feather with a central streak of light brown ; 

 breast light brown, irregularly ban-ed with dark brown ; tlanks and 

 lower parts of body yellowish brown, indistinctly barred with dark 

 brown, except in the centre of the abdomen, which is light reddish 

 white ; thighs reddish, banded with brown ; under tail-coverts pale 

 reddish ; iris chestnut ; bill long, curved, and slender, like that of 

 the male, black; feet and tarsi lead-colour. (Elliot.) 



Hah. Arfak Mountains, Xorth-eastcrn New Guinea. 



(/. cJ ad. sk. Atam, Dec. 12, 1867. Purchased. 



4. EPIMACHUS. 



Tjpe. 



EpiniacLus, Cuvier, Reyne Anim. i. p. 407 ( 1817) E. speciosus. 



Cinnauiolegus, Lesson, II. N. Ois. Farad. Si/n. p. .32 



(1833) E. speciosus. 



liange. Confined to New Guinea. 



Keij to the Species. 



a. Size very large ; tail black, the centre feathers with 



steel-blue and purple reflections ; under siu'face 



of body dark olive-green spcrioms, p. 1(52. 



b. Size much smaller ; tail biHliant violet-purple ; sides 



of breast, flanks, aud under tail-coverts dark 

 gi-een ; throat and upper part of breast deep ma- 

 roon colour with purple refiectious ; across the 

 lower breast a narrow band of reddish purple. . cllicli. p. l(>o. 



