61. PTILONORHrNCHtJS. 381 



1 . Ptilonorhynchus violaceus *. 



Pyrrhocorax violaceus, Vieill. N. Diet. \i. p. 569 (1816). 

 Ptilonorhynchus holosericeus, Kuhl, Beifr. z. Zuol. p. 160 (1820) ; 



Wa(/kr, Si/sf. Av., Ptilouorhynchus, sp. 1 (1827) ; Gould, B. Austr. 



fol.'iv. pi. 10 (1838); id.' Handb. B. Austr. i. p. 442 (1865); 



Maninaij, Ibis, 1866, p. 330 ; Sdater in Wolfs Zool. Sketches, 2nd 



series, pi. xxviii. (1867) ; Grai/, Hand-l. B. i. p. 294, no. 4335 



(1869). 

 Satin Grakle, Lath. Gen. Hist. iii. p. 171 (1822). 

 Kitta holosericea, Temm. Bl. Col. ii. pis. .395, 422 (1826); Less. TraitS 



d'Orn. p. 350, pi. 46. fig-. 1 (1831). 

 Ptilonorhyuclius macleavii, Viy. (^ Horsf. Tr. Linn. Soc. xv. p. 263 



(1827, kv Lath. MSS.). 

 Ptilonorhynchus squamiilosus, Wagler, Syst. Av., Ptilon. sp. 3 (1827, 



ex Illiger, MSS.). 

 Ptilorhvnchus holosericeus, Stvains. Classif. B. ii. p. 271 (1837) ; 



Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. -325 (1846) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 370 (18-50); Cab. 



Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 213 (1860) ; Schl. Miis. Pays-Bas, Coraces, 



p. 117 (1867); Batnsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, ii. p. 187 



(1878). 

 Ptilorhynchus violaceus, Elliot, Monogr. Farad, pi. xxviii. (1873). 



Adult male. General colour above and below purplish black, the 

 feathers having concealed greyish bases ; upper tail-coverts black, 

 broadly bordered and tipped with purple ; qtiills and tail black, the 

 feathers edged with purple : " bill bluish horn, passing into yellow 

 at the tip ; legs and feet yellowish white ; iris beautiful light blue, 

 with a circle of red round the pupil" {Gould). Total length 12-5 

 inches, culmen 1-4, wing d-V), tail 4-5, tarsus 2*15. 



Adult female. Different from the male. General colour above 

 greyish green, with a shade of bluish on the edges of the feathers, 

 the rump and upper tail-coverts greener than the back ; lesser and 

 median wing-coverts like the back, the latter edged with whity 

 brown along the tips ; greater and primary wing-coverts reddish 

 brown, the former with a slight shade of blui.sh green, the innermost 

 also tipped with a whity -brown bar ; quills dusky brown, externally 

 reddish brown, the innermost secondaries shaded with bluish and 

 tipped with a bar of whity brown like the secondaries ; tail-feathers 

 golden brown, with a slight shade of bluish ashy on the centre 

 feathers ; lores and feathers round the eye a little browner than the 

 head ; ear-coverts and cheeks ashy brown, thickly streaked with yel- 

 lowish-buff shaft-stripes ; throat ashy brown, with a tinge of greenish 



* PtILONOUIIY.VCIIUS RAW.N'SLEYI. 



Sericulu.s rawnsleyi, Diygles, Orn. Austr. pi. 



Ptiloiiorhjiiclius rawnsleji, Gould, Sitppl. B. Aii-tfr. pi. 34; Kewton, Ibis, 



1868, p. 348; Elliot, Monogr. Parad. pi. xxix. (1873) ; Ranisay,' Proc. 



Linn. Soc. N. S. n'ales, ii. p. 187 (1876). 



This supposed .species, which is like a Satin Bower-bird with the wings of a 

 Regent-bird {Sericiilii.<s nieliiius), appears to be an undoubted hybrid between 

 these two species. Only one specimen has as yet been found ; and good figures 

 of it have been given both by Gould and Elliot (1. c). 



