62. MLVIi(E.T>VB. 383 



Crown olive-brown; throat white, distinctly 



spotted with black ; spots on underparts 



large huccoides, p. 380, 



Crown blackish brown ; throat white, with 



only a few black dots ; spots on under surface 



very smaU stonii, p. 387. 



1. .Slluroedus melanotis. 



Ptilonorhynchus melanotis, Gray, P. Z. S. 1858, pp. 181, 194 ; id. 



Cat. B. New Guinea, pp. 37, 59 (1859); id. P. Z. S. 1861, p. 436; 



Posetib. J. f. O. 1864, p. 122 (pt.); Finsch, Neu-Guinea, p. 173 



(1865) ; Rosenb. Reis. n. Zuidoostereil. p. 47 (1867) ; Gi'ay, Hand4. 



B. i. p. 294, no. 4338 (1869)i; Pelz. Verh. zool.-hot. Gesellsch. Wien, 



1872, p. 428. 

 Ptilorhynchus melanotis, ScUegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Cor aces, p. 118, 



(1867) ; id. N. T, D. iv. p. 51 (1871, pt.) ; Giehel, Thes. Orn. iii. 



p. 370 (1877). 

 Ailurcedus melanotis, Meyer, Sitz. k. Akad. Wissensch. Wien, Ixix. 



p. 82 (1874) ; Gotdd, B. New Guinea, pt. i. (1875 )^ 

 ^luroedus melanotis, Elliot, Monogr. Parad. pi. xxxv. (1873) ; Scl. Ibis, 



1874, p. 416 ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. ix. p. 193 (1876) ; 



id. P. Z. S. 1878, p. 99^ ; UAlb. df Salvad. Ann. Mvs. Civic. Genov. 



xiv. p. 114 (1879); DAlbert. Nuova Guinea,^. 588(1880); Salvad. 



Orn. della Pajniasia, p. 671 (1881). 



Adult male (type of species). General colour above bright grass- 

 green, slightly shaded with blue on the wing-coverts and primaries ; 

 the median and greater wing-coverts and the secondaries tipped 

 with buffy white ; quills dull brown on the inner webs ; tail dull 

 grass-green, blackish on the inner webs of the outer feathers, all 

 the feathers rather broadly tipped with white ; head and neck 

 fulvous, mottled with black, the feathers being mostly of the latter 

 colour, with a large oval spot of fulvous near the tip, very much 

 larger on the hinder neck ; lores and a line of feathers above and 

 below the eye huffy whitish ; behind the eye a bare patch ; ear- 

 coverts black ; rest of the sides of the face buffy white, barred with 

 narrow crescentic cross lines of black ; the fore neck and chest 

 yellowish white, aU the feathers dark at base and distinctly edged 

 with black, giving a very strongly mottled appearance ; rest of the 

 under surface of the body yellowish buff, slightly inclining to fawn- 

 buff, the feathers with narrow whitish shaft-lines, the breast mottled 

 with subterminal cross lines of blackish ; sides of the body washed 

 with green, with rather broad mesial streaks of white on the flank- 

 feathers ; under wing-coverts yellowish buff, tinged with green 

 along the edge of the wing ; many of the abdominal plumes, when 

 lifted, exhibiting a bluish shade underneath, this being also seen on 

 the lower surface of the tail. Total length 12-5 inches, culmen 1-6, 

 wing 6-65, tail 5-1, tarsus 1"85. 



Adult female. Similar to the male, but more distinctly greenish 

 underneath ; each feather with a terminal spot of brighter green 

 the lower flanks washed with bluish green ; spots on secondaries 



