6. RECXES. 



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6. RECTES. 



I'itohui, Lesson, Traite, i. p. ^7o (1831) . 

 Eectes, Bp. C. R. xxxi. p. 5(33 (1850). 



Type. 

 R. cirrhocephalus. 



Head, foot, and wing of Rectes uropygialis. 



Mcoir/e. Xew Guinea and Papuan Islands ; Aru Islands ; Mysol ; 

 Waigiou ; Jobi. 



Key to the SjJecies. 



a. With a very distinct cap, contrasting with the 



colour of the back. 

 a'. Upper tail-coverts rufous like the rest of the 



back cirrhocephalus, p. 284. 



b'. Upper tail-coverts black ; back chestnut. 



a". Black colour ending abruptly on the breast. 



a'". Black colour occup3'ing the whole of 



the lower back, as well as the rump and 



upper tail-coverts ; thighs chestnut . . uropygialis, p. 285. 



h"'. Black colour confined to the lower 



rump and upper tail-coverts tibialis, p. 285. 



b". Black colour extending down the centre of 

 the breast and abdomen ; upper tail-coverts 

 only black, not the rump aniensis, p. 285. 



b. With no distinct cap, the head being of the 



same colour as the mantle, or nearly so. 

 c". Throat ashy, contrasting -w-ith the breast . . cerviniveidris, p. 286. 

 d". Throat rufous, like the rest of the under 

 sm-face. 

 c'". Brownish red above, inclining to olive ; 



bill black cristatits, p. 286. 



d'". Foxy red above, like the imder surface ; 



bill light horn-colour Jobiensis, p. 287. 



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