17. LTCOCORAX. 185 



in Mr. Elliot's work ; and this makes it difficult to compare allied 

 species with them. Count Salvadori has such an immense series of 

 M. atra wherewith to compare his 2I.jobiensis, that he has doubtless 

 not separated the species without good grounds for so doing. From 

 the description it seems to be intermediate between 31. atra and 

 M, chalt/bata. 



17. LYCOCORAX. ^^p^ 



Lycocorax, Bp. C. S. xxxvii. p. 829 (1853) L. pyrrhopterua. 



Manucodia (pt.) Gray, Iland-l. ii. p. 17 (1870) .... 



Raiige. Molucca Islands : Batchian, Gilolo, Morty Island, Raou, 

 Obi. 



Kei/ to the Species. 



a. Primaries ashy brown below, rather paler, but 



not white at base of inner web. 

 a'. General colour black, slightly washed with 



green ; secondaries brown pyrrhopterus, p. 185. 



h'. General colour dark rifle-green ; secondaries 



black, washed with green obiensis, p. 185. 



b. Primaries white for basal half of inner web . . morotensis, p. 186. 



1. Lycocorax pyrrliopterus. 



Coiwus pyrrhopterus, Bp. Consp. i. p, 384 {ex Temm. MS. in Mus. 



Liiffd). 

 Pica pviThoptera, Schl. Bijdr. tot de Dierk. fol. pt. viii. p. 1, pi. i. 



(1858). 

 Lycocorax pvn-hopterus, Bp. C. R. xxxvii. p. 829; &'r«y, P. Z. S. 



1860, p. 3o5 ; Schl. N. T. D. iii. p. 191 ; id. Mus. P.-B. Goraces, 



p. 131 ; Finsch, Neu-Guinea, p. 172. 

 Manucodia pyrrhopterus, Gray, Sand-l. B. ii. p. 17. 



Adult female. General colour above and below black, with a slight 

 wash of dull oily green ; tail black, with an almost imperceptible 

 wash of green on the outer web of some of the feathers ; least wing- 

 coverts resembling the back, the rest of the wing brown, becoming 

 paler and more reddish on the outer primaries, the lower surface of 

 the quUls rather ashy brown ; bill and feet black. Total length 15-5 

 inches, culmen 1-75, wing 7'1, tail 6*1, tarsus 1-75. 



Hah. Batchian, Gilolo. 



2. Lycocorax obiensis. 



Lycocorax obiensis, Bernst. J. f. O. 1864, p. 410 ; Schl. X. T. D. iii. 



'p. 192 : id. Mus. P.-B. Coraces, p. 132. 

 Manucodia obiensis, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 1 7. 



Adult. General colour above and below of a dull rifle-green, .some- 



TOL. III. () 



