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8. MELANORECTES. 

 Eectes (pt.), auct recent. 

 Range. North-western New Guinea. 



1. Melanorectes nigrescens. 



Kectes nigrescens, Schl X. T. D. iv. p. 46 ; Meyer, P. Z. S. 1874, 



p. 419 ; id. Sitz. Ahad. Wieii, Ixix. p. 390. 

 Eectes bennetti, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 692 ; Me^jer, Sitz. Akad. 

 Wien, Ixx. p. 126. 



Adult male. General colour above slaty black, deeper and more 

 jet-black on the crown and sides of 1 he head ; wing-coverts like the 

 back ; quills and tail blackish brown ; under surface of body black, 

 inclining to slaty black on the flanks and under tail-coverts ; under 

 wing-coverts resembling the breast ; quills blackish brown below, 

 margined along the inner web with lighter brown ; " bill black ; 

 legs dull lead-colour ; iris chestnut-brown '' (D'Albertis). Total 

 length 9 inches, culmen 0-95, wing 5, tail 4-1, tarsus 1*2. ( Dr. A. 

 B.Meyer: Mus. Dresden.) 



Adidt female. Above olive-brown, a little redder on the rump and 

 upper tail-covorts ; wing-coverts rather more reddish brown, the 

 greater series somewhat olivaceous ; quills brown, reddish on the 

 outer webs ; tail chestnut ; head above ashy brown, slightly greyer 

 on the forehead and lores ; sides of face, sides of neck, and under 

 surface of body fulvous brown, the throat somewhat ashy ; under 

 wing-coverts rich fawn-colour ; quills light brown below, chestnut 

 along the inner web. {Dr. A. B. Meyer : Mus. Dresden.) 



Bab. North-western New Guinea. 



9. COLLYRIOCINCLA. 



Type. 



Colluricincla, Fir/. SfHorsf. Tr. Linn. Soc. xv. p. 214(1825) C. harmonica. 



Collurisoma, Swains. Classif. B. ii. p. 10 (1837) ? 



Pnigocichla, Cab. Mm. Hein. Th. i. p. 66 (1850) C. harmonica. 



Head and wing of Colh/riocincla harmonica. 

 Ranqe. Australia and Southern New Guinea. 



