242 DicEUPaD^. 



9. CMbia megalornis. 



Dicnmis megalornis, Gniij. P. Z. S. 1858, pp. 179, 193 ; id. Cat. B. 8fc. 

 Neic Guinea, p. 33; Finsch, Neu-Guinea, p. 171 ; Gray, HandA. B. 

 i. p. 285. 



Adult. General colour purplish black, the back being of a velvety 

 appearance, and slightly glossed with metaUic steel-black ; head 

 and feathers of the neck (the latter hackled) steel-black, with a 

 slight tinge of greenish on the metallic portion of the neck-hackles ; 

 wings metallic steel-green, as also the outer webs of the scapulars, 

 which resemble the secondary quills ; primaries black, washed ex- 

 ternally with greenish ; upper tail-covcrts black, glossed with steel- 

 green ; tail black, washed with metallic steel-green on the outer 

 webs ; lores, feathers round the eye, and sides of face blue-black ; 

 rest of under surface purj^lish black, the under tail-coverts slightly 

 washed with steel-green ; the feathers of the throat and breast very 

 indistinctly spangled with tips of metallic steel-grech ; under wing- 

 coverts black, glossed with steel-green, and aU tipped with a white 

 spot ; bill and feet black ; iris red. Total length 15 inches, culmen 

 1-5, wing 6-95, tail 7*6, tarstis 1'15. 



Ohs. Very like C. densa of Timor, but purplish black without the 

 green shade. These differences are apparent, on comparing speci- 

 mens, on the neck-hackles, wings, and upper tail-coverts, which 

 have an oily green shade in C. densa. 



Hah. Ke Islands and Goram. 



a. Ad. sk. Ke Islands. A. E. Wallace, Esq. [0.]. (Type of 



species.) 

 t, cAd. sk. Goram. A. R.Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



3. CH^TORHTNCHUS. ^ype. 



Chsetorhynchus, Meyer, Sitz. Akad. Wien, Lsix. p. 493. . 0. papuensis. 



Bill (from above) and profile of bead of Chatorhynchus. 

 Bange. Confined to New Guinea. 



1. ChsBtorlijnichus papuensis. (Plate XIII.) 



Chsetorhynchus papuensis, Meyer, Sitz. Akad. Wien, Ixix. p. 493, 



Adult female. General colour black, with a steely gloss, the head 

 more brightly glossed with steel-green, the feathers rounded and 

 somewhat scale-like in appearance ; least wing-coverts steel-black. 



