266 DICKUKID^. 



2. Dissemuroides edoliifonnis. 



Le Di'ongup, Levuill. Ois. cTAfr. pi. 173 ; Sundeu. Crit. vm Levaill. 



p. 43. 

 Dicrurus edoliiformis. Bli/th, J. A. S. B. xv. p. 297 ; id. Cat. B. Mtia. 



A. S. B. p. 202 ; id. Ibis, 18(i7, p. 305. 

 Dicrurus lophorbinus, Grai/, Hand-l. B. i. p. 285 {nee V.*). 

 Dissemurus lophorbinus, Holdsic. P. Z. S. 1872, p. 439. 

 Dissemuroides lophorliinus, Hume, S. F. 1874, p. 408. 



Adult female. General colour above black, with a metallic green 

 shade, rather more purplish on the head and on the neck-hackles : 

 wings metallic steel-green, the inner secondaries also ; the rest of 

 the quills black, glossed externally with steel-green, the primaries 

 onl}' at the base ; tail-feathers black, glossed with steel-green on 

 the outer webs ; forehead crested, the plumes deep black, as also 

 those of the lores and sides of the face ; under surface of body black, 

 glossed with steel-green, uniformly distributed on the abdomen, but 

 rather more metallic on the breast, where it is chieHj' confined to 

 the tips of the breast-feathers, producing a slightly spangled appear- 

 ance ; under wing-coverts black, glossed with metallic green like 

 the breast ; " bill and legs black ; iris dull brownish red" (Legge). 

 Total length 12-3, culmen 1-25, wing 5-6, tail 5-2, to tip of outer 

 feather 7'2, tarsus 0-95. 



Adult male. Similar to the female, but a little larger. Captain 

 Legge says that the wing of a male bird, shot with the female above 

 described, measured 6 inches in length. 



Hub. Ceylon. 



(I. 5 ad. sk. Opate Forests, South Pro- Capt. W. Vincent Legge, 



vince, Ceylon. R.A. [P.]. 



8. DICRANOSTREPTUS. rj^^^ 



Dicranostreptus, Bdchenh. Syst. Av. pi. Ixxxviii. 

 fig. 12 (1850) D. megarhynchus. 



Range. New Ireland; New Guinea (?)t, Ke Islands +. 



1. Dicranostreptus megarhynchus. 



Edolius megarhvnchus, Quoy et Gaiin. Voy. d'Astrol. Zool. p. 184, 



pl.6.§ 

 Dicrm'us megarhynchus, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 286 ; Bp. Consp. i. 



* Vieillot's name of D. lojjhorhimfs (JS. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. ix. p. 587) is gene- 

 rally applied to this species ; but the description seems to me to be that of 

 D. forficahis of Madagascar, if, indeed, recognizable at all. 



t Very doubtful. The bird is probably confined to New Ireland. 



J Teste Dr. O JFinseh, 'Neu-Guinea,' p. 171. 



§ The habitat is given as Dorey, New Guinea ; but probably this locality ie 

 erroneous. The Museum specimens are from Carteret Harbour, New Ireland, a 

 locality visited by the 'Astrolabe' {cf. t. c. p. 181). 



