9. LALAGE. 93 



under surface of body buffy white, with cross markiugs of dusky 

 brown on the breast and flanks. 



Nestling. General colour above earthy brown, all the feathers 

 margined with whity brown, before which is a subterminal line of 

 blackish ; greater wing-coverts and quills edged with fulvous : lower 

 back and rump rather lighter than the rest of the back ; tail-feathers 

 brown, margined with sandy brown, the peuultimate feathers tipped 

 with buffy white, broader on the outermost feather, which has the 

 outer web also of this colour : sides of face and under surface of body 

 dull white, plentifully spotted with mesial streaks of brown on the 

 feathers, these streaks disappearing on the abdomen. 



Hab. Australia and South-eastern New Guinea. 



a. cJ ad. St. Australia. J. Gould, Esq. [C.]. 



6, c. (S imm. sk. Australia. Sir T. Mitcliell [P.]. 



d. 2 «id. St. Yarrundi river. J. Gould, Esq. [C.]. 



e,f. c? ad. sk. South Australia. Sir G. Grey [P.]. 



g. (S ad. sk. • Burr Range, interior of Capt. Sturt [P.]. 



S. Australia. 



h. Pull., *. (S ad. St. West Australia. J. Gould, Esq. [C.]. 



k,l. Juv. sk. N.W. Australia. J. R. Elsey, Esq. [P.]. 



tn. (J juv. sk. Lat. 17", long. 1.34°, Julv J. R. Elsey, Esq. I P.l 



1856. 



n. Juv. sk. Port Essington. Capt. Chambers [P.]. 



o. cJ ad. sk. Port Moresby, S.E. New 0. C. Stone, Esq. [C.]. 



Guinea. 



4. Lalage atrovirens. 



Campephaga (Lalage) atrovirens, Grai/, P. Z. S. 1861, pp. 430. 



4.3;i 



Lalage atrovirens, Hartl. J. f. O. 1865, p. 164. 



Campephaga atrovirens, Fimch, Neu-Guinea, p. 172 ; Grmj, Hand-I. 

 B. i. p. 339, no. 5121 ; Giehel, Orn. Thes. i. p. 654. 



Adult male (type of species). General colour above glossy greenish 

 black, the head with a faint shade of steel-blue ; across the rump a 

 broad band of white ; feathers of the lower rump rigid, white at 

 base and tipped with white, before which is a subterminal spot of 

 greenish black ; upper tail-coverts black with greenish edges, some 

 of the lower ones margined with white ; tail-feathers black, edged 

 with greenish, the outermost feather tipped with a white spot ; least 

 wing-coverts greenish black like the back, the median series black 

 broadly tipped with white, forming a transverse bar ; the greater 

 series black tipped with white, increasing in extent towards the in- 

 nermost, which are broadly margined with white ; primary-coverts 

 entirely black ; quills black, the secondaries I'ather broadly edged 

 with white externally ; sides of face and sides of neck white, the 

 upper edge of the ear-coverts greenish black like the crown ; lower 

 edge of eyelid white like the adjoining cheeks, the rest greenish 

 black ; entire under surface of body pure white, including the under 

 wing-coverts, some of the outermost of which have black bases ; 

 quills dusky, blackish below, with broad white lining to the inner 



