CAMPOOH KKA. 



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CAMPOCH^RA. 



Campephaga, pt., auct. recent. 

 Campochiera. Salmul MSS. 



Tail of Campocha'ra aloetii. 

 Ennge. Confined to New Guinea. 



1. Campochaera sloetii. 



Campephaga sloetii, Schh<jel, N. T. B. iii. p. 253 ; Graxj, Hand-I. B 

 ]. p. 339, no. 5126; Meyer, Sitz. k. Akad. Wien, Ixx. p. 125; 

 Salvad. and D' Albert. Ami. Mus. Civic. Genov. vii. p. 821. 



Campephaga aunilenta, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 692, pi. 54'- Meuer 

 P. Z. S. 1874, p. 419. ' ^ ' 



Lalage.P sloetii, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. x. p. 137. 



Adult male (type of C. aundenta). General colour above golden 

 yellow, inclining to olive on the scapulars : lower back, rump, and 

 upper tail-coverts brilliant golden yellow ; wing-coverts black with 

 a greenish gloss, the median series narrowly tipped and the greater 

 series broadly edged with white ; primary-coverts and quills black 

 with an obscure narrow edging of green ; the inner secondaries mar- 

 gined with white, slightly tinged with yellow on one or two feathers ; 

 tail-feathers black, obscurely margined with greenish and tipped with 

 white, more broadly on the outer feathers : crown of head bluish 

 grey ; base of forehead, lores, sides of face, and ear-coverts, as well 

 as the throat and fore neck, black with a greenish gloss ; this black 

 separated from the grey crown by an intervening band of white, 

 which forms an eyebrow ; remainder of under surface bright golden 

 yellow ; under wing-coverts and axillaries white, slightly tinged with 

 yellow ; quills ashy brown below, white along their "inner webs ; 

 "bill and feet black: iris black" (D'Albertis). Total length 7-5 

 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 4-15, tail 3-8, tarsus 0-75. (Mus. Civic. 

 Genov. ) 



