4. CHAPTIA. 243 



the median, greater, and primary coverts black, narrowly edged with 

 eteel -green ; quills black, the secondaries margined with steel-green. 



Tail of ChcBtorhynckus papuensis. 



the innermost glossed with the latter colour; tail black, slightly 

 glossed with steel-green on the edges of the feathers ; side's of" face 

 and under surface of body black, the breast glossed with steel re- 

 flections ; under wing-coverts greyish black ; bill and feet black 

 Total length 7 inches, culmen 0-7 wing 4-2, tail 3-5, tarsus 0-7. 

 Hub. Arfak Mountains, New Guinea. 



a. 5 ad. sk. Ai-fak Mountains, Jidy 1873 Dresden Museum [P.] (One 

 {Dr. A. B. Meyer). of the typical specimens.) 



4. CHAPTIA. ^ 



Chaptia, Hodc/s. Ind. Sev. i. p. 326 (1837) C. a'nea. 



Prepopterus, Hodi/s. in Grai/s Zool. Misc. p. 84 (1844) " c". fenea' 



Entomoletes, Sundev. Av. Mvth. Tent. p. 22 (1874 j . C.' eenea! 



Eanr/e. The whole of India and Burmese countries, ranging 

 throughout the Malayan peninsula ; Sumatra, Borneo, Pormosa. 



Kei/ to tJte Sjjecies. 



n. General colour above rather uniform metallic green- 

 ish black, the rump inclining to greyish. 



a'. Smaller : wing not 5 inches . . . .' anea, p. 243. 



V Much larger : wing 5-lo inches, tail 5-2 braimicma, p! 244. 



6. J'^ntire upper surface spangled with metallic plumes, 

 the rump and upper taU-coverts being similarly 

 metallic to the rest of the back «i«/«ye/isis,p.244. 



1. Chaptia aenea. 



Le Drougo bronze, LevuiU. Ois. d'Afr. iv. p. 7G, pi. 176 ; Swidev. 

 Crit. 07)1 Leraill. p. 44. 



Dicrurus leneus, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. ix. p. 586 (ex Zevaill.) : 

 Jerd. Madr. Jnurn. x. p. 240. 



Dicrurus reratus, Steph. Gen. Zool. xiii. pt. 2, p. 138. 



Chaptia muscipetoides, Hodf/c. Ind. Ecv. i. p. 327. 



Prepopterus reueus, Ilodt/n. 'in Gruy's Zool Misc. p. 84. 



Edolius aeratus, Blyth, J. A. 6'. B. xi. p. 101. 



Chaptia aenea, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 2o8 ; Blyth, J. A. S. B. xv. p. 294 • 

 id Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 200 ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 350 ; Horsf. &■ 

 Moore, Cat. B. 3Iifs. E.I. Co. i. p. 1.59 ; Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 433 • 

 Gray, Iland-l. B. i. p. 287; Ilinne, 6'. F. 1874, p 474, 187o' 

 p. 100 ; id Nests and Eyys Ind. B. p. 192 ; Bbjth t<c Wold. B. 

 Burm. p. 128. 



Entomoletes aeneus, Sundev. Ar. Meth. Tent. p. 22. 



