G3. CHLAMYDOUEKA. 389 



feathers ; throat and sides of body per- 

 fectly uniform. 

 c". Head unifonn ; whitish tips to inner 

 Secondaries not very strongly pro- 

 nounced nuchalis ^ , p. 391 . 



d". Head mottled with silvery-whitish tips 

 to the feathers ; whitish tips to inner se- 

 condaries and wing'-coverts very strongly 



pronounced orientalis cJ , p- 393. 



Without a nuchal band of bright lilac. 



e". Flanks barred with dusky ; upper surface 



mottled with reddish spots or tips to the 



feathers. 



a'". Throat light reddish or fulvous, slightly 



varied with duskj'-browji cross bars 



and edgings to the feathers mactdata 5 , p. 390. 



b'". Throat fulvescent, closely mottled with 

 blackish centres and margins to the 



feathers guttata J , p. 391 . 



/". Flanks perfectly uniform or ^ath obso- 

 lete bars of dusky ; under tail-coverts 

 whitish, with narrow bars of dusky 

 brown. 



c'". Head uniform nuchalis 5 , p. 392. 



d'". Head mottled with silvery-whitish 



tips to the feathei's orientalis 2 , P- 392. 



ff". Flanlis uniform ; under tail-coverts fawn- 

 colour like the breast ; throat pale, longi- 

 tudinally streaked with dusky ; head 

 and hind neck uniform ; back miimtely 

 spotted or streaked with white cermniventris, p. 393. 



1. Chlamydodera maculata. 



Calodera maculata, Gould, P. Z. S. 1836, p. 106 ; id. Syti. B. Amtr. 



part i. (1837). 

 Chlamydera maculata, Gould, B. Austr. part i. (1837, cancelled) ; id. 



op.cit. iv. pi. 8 (1838); Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 225 (1846); Bp. 



Comp. i. p. 370 (18o0); Diqqles, Orn. Austr. pi. (circ. 1867); 



Gray, Iland-l. B. i. p. 294, no. 4:340 (1809). 

 Chlamydodera maculata, Cah. Mus. lliin. Th. i. p. 450 (1854) ; 



Gould, Handb. B. Au^tr. i. p. 450 (1865) ; Bainsay, Ibis, 1866, 



p. 329 ; Elliot, Monogr. Farad, pi. xxx. (1873) ; Ramsay, Proc. 



Linn. Soc. N. S. W. ii. p. 188 (1878). 

 Ptilorhynchus macidatus, Schlcg. Mas. P.-B., Coraces, p. 119 (1867). 

 Chlamydodera occipitalis, Gould, Ann. ^- Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) xvi. 



p. 429 (1875) ; id. Birds of i\ew Guinea, part x. (^1879) ; Ramsay, 



Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. ii. p. 188. 



Aihdt male. General colour above dark brown, spotted all over 

 with tawny 1nift' neai- the end of each feather, these spots paling into 

 whitish near the apex ; the hind neck plain nmbor-brown, separating 

 the nape-spot from the mantle ; head tawny buff, mottled and, as it 

 were, striped with dark-brown edges to the feathers ; a few of the 

 feathers of the crown with silvery-whitish tips ; on the nape a hand 



