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TIITEIIID^. 



grey, and slightly mottled with dusky greenish margins to the 

 feathers ; remainder of the under surface pale yellowish, the feathers 

 aU mottled with bars of blackish brown, tinged with liluish green, 

 these bars less pronounced on the abdomen and under tail-coverts, 

 the lower abdomen being uniform yellowish ; axillaries pale greenish 

 barred with dusky : under wing-coverts yellow, barred with dusky 

 brown ; quUls dusky below, bright yellow at the base and on the 

 inner web ; " bill dark horn-colour ; feet yellowish white, tinged 

 with olive ; irides of a deeper blue than in the male, and with only 

 an indication of the red ring" (Gould). Total length 12 inches, 

 culmen 1-3, wing 6-2, tail 4-6, tarsus 1-7. 



Young male. Resembles the female at first, but is generally to be 

 distinguished by a few purplish-black feathers appearing on the head 

 and back or on the quills. The body-plumes appear to be acquired 

 by a direct moult ; but the quills and tail-feathers become black by 

 a change in the colour of the feather itself. 



The Satin Bower-bird inhabits New South Wales, and ranges 

 throughout Eastern Australia as far as Rockingham Bay and Port 

 Denison. 



a. c? ad. sk. 



6, c. S imm. sk. 

 d. c? juv. sk. 

 e,f. S 2 ^d. sk. 

 g. c? ad. sk. 

 h. c? ad. sk. 

 «'? ^■- cT ? ad. sk. 



Australia. 



Australia. 



Australia. 



Clarence River. 



New South Wales. 



Australia. 



Queensland 



(/. T. Cockerell). 



Linneau Society [P.]. (Type 



of P. macleai/i.) 

 Zoological Society. 

 Gould Collection. 

 Sydney Museum. 

 Gould Collection. 

 Rev. Augustus Strong [P.]. 

 F. Godman and O. Salvin, 



Esqrs. [P.]. 



Type. 



62. JELTJRCEDUS. 

 Ailurcedus, Cab. Mm. Hein. Th. i. p. 213 (1850) M. viridis. 



Range. Confined to Australia and the Papuan group of islands. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Crown of head mottled ; ear-coverts black ; tail- 



feathers tipped with white. 

 a'. Head black, spotted with ovate marks of red- 

 dish buft". 



«". Nape spotted like the head melanotis, p. 383. 



h". Nape black arfahianus, p. 384. 



h'. Head Drown, the feathers margined with black niaculosus, p. 385. 



b. Crown of head uniform, green ; ear-coverts green, 



mottled with dusky black ; tail-feathers tipped 



with white viridis, p. 385. 



c. Crown of head uniform, brown ; ear-coverts white, 

 , spotted with black ; tail not tipped with white ; 



hind neck yellowish buff, mottled with large 

 triangular black spots. 



