G6. BERICULUS. 395 



Adult. General colour above brown, rather more reddish on the 

 head and mantle ; wing-covorts like the back : quills dusky brown, 

 externally of the same colour as the back ; tail dusky brown, washed 

 with the brown colour of the back ; lores and sides of face duU 

 brown ; throat and under surface of body orange-brown, rather 

 lighter on the abdomen ; sides of breast washed with the same brown 

 as the back ; axillaries and under wing-coverts brighter orange- 

 buff; quills light brown below, pale buff along the edge of the inner 

 web; " bill black ; feet jjale lead-colour ; iris chestnut" {D" Albertis). 

 Total length 9-5 inches, culmcn 1-1, wing 5'05, tail 3"4, tarsus 1'4. 



The Gardener Bower-bird is apparently confined to the Arfak 

 Mountains in North-western New Guinea. Por an account of its 

 habits, cf. Beceari, Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. ix. p. 382, and Gould's 

 Birds of New Guinea, part ix. 



a, b. Ad. sk. Arfak Mountains. Gould Collection. 



c, d. Ad. sk. Arfak Mountains. Eyton Collection. 



66. SERICULUS. 



Type. 

 Sericulus, Swains. Zool. Journ. i. p. 478 (1825) S. melinus. 



Range. Confiued to Australia. 



1. Sericulus melinus. 



Yellow-bellied Thrush, Lath. Gen. Syn. Suppl. ii. p. 187 (1801). 

 Turdus melinus, Lat/i. Iiid. Or». Siippl. ii. p. xliv (1801) ; Vieill. N. 



Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xx. p. 243 (1818) ; Bonn, et Vieill. Enc. Meth. ii. 



p._ 647 (1823). 

 Meliphaga cbrysocephala, Leicin, Birds of New Holl. p. 10, pi. vi. 



(1808). 

 Turdus melliuus, Steph. Gen. Zool. x. p. 240 (1817). 

 Goklen-crowned lloney-eater, Zath. Gen. Hist. iv. p. 184 (1822). 

 Oriolus regens, Quoy et Gaim. Voy. de V Uranie, p. 105, pi. xxii. (1824); 



Temm. PI. Col. ii. pi. 320 (1826) : Wagl. Syst. At:, Oriolus, sp. 2 



(1829). 

 Sericulus chrysoeephalus, Stmins. Zool. Journ. i. p. 478 (1825) ; Vig. 



^ Horsf. Tr. Linn. Soc. xv. p. 326 (1826) ; Steph. Gen. Zool. xiv. 



p. 206 (1826) ; Less. Traitc, p. 340 (1831); Swains. Classif. B. ii. 



p. 237 (1837) ; Jard. t^ Selhy, III. Orn. i. pis. xviii., xix., xx. ; 



Gould, B. Austr. iv. pi. 12 (1838). 

 Sericulus regens, Less. Voy. Coquille, Zool. i. p. 640, pi. 20 (1826) ; 



id. Man. Orn. i. p. 250 (1S2S) ; id. Ois. Parad. Syn. p. 21 : id. Hist. 



Nat. Ois., Parad. pis. 26, 27 (1835). 

 Serieuhis magnirostns, Gotild, P. Z. S. 1837, p. 145. 

 Sericulus niellinus, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 233 (1845) ; Bp. Consp. i. 



p. 349(1850). 



p. 293, no. 4333 (1809) ; Elliot, Momxjr. Parad. pi. xxxii (1873) ; 

 Ilamsay, IVoc. Linn. Soc. N. S. TV. ii. p. 188 (18/6). 



Adult mail. Head, neck, aiul upi)cr mantle of a velvety texture 



