94 CAMPorilAOID.E. 



web. Total length 7-S inches, cuhuen O-O, vring SS"), tail 3-3, 

 tarsus 0-8. 



All uJt female. Similar to the male, but rather duller above, more 

 ashy but with a greenish gloss ; below white, narrowly barred across 

 ■with wa^•y cross lines of blackish ; under wing- and tail-coverts 

 white, as well as the quill-lining ; cheeks white, the ear-coverts 

 dusky white with clearer white shaft-lines. Total length V'G inches, 

 culmen OSo, wing 3-S5, tail 3-3. tarsus 0-85. 



B.ah. Mysol, Salwatti, iS'ew Guinea. 



A. E. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 

 A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 

 A. E. WaUace, Esq. [C.J. 



5. Lalage timoriensis. 



Ceblepn-is timoriensis, <S'. Mull. Nat. Verschied. Land- en Volkenk. 



p. 190. 

 Campephaga timoriensis. Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 283 : id. Hand-l. B. i. 



p. 3.39. 

 Lalage timoriensis, Bp. Consp. i. p. Zoo ; Hartl.J.f. O. 1865, p. 165 ; 



Finsch, JVeu-Guinea, p. 172; Salvad. Ucc. Burn. p. 147. 

 Lalage leucophfea, Wall. F. Z. S. 1863, p. 485 {nee V.). 



Adult male. General colour above glossy greenish black, the lower 

 back, rump, and upper tail-coverts light grey, the latter with narrow 

 whitish tips ; lesser and median wing- coverts pure white, forming a 

 large shoulder-patch, the greater series black, narrowly edged with 

 white, the inner ones white on the outer web, black on the inner ; 

 quills black, the secondaries narrowly bordered with white on the 

 outer web ; tail black, with very narrow white tips to some of the 

 feathers, the two outermost plainly tippjd Avith white ; a narrow 

 line of white running from the base of the nostrils above the eye ; 

 upper and lower edge of the eyelid white ; through the eye a black 

 streak from the base of the bill to the nape ; cheeks, ear-coverts, 

 sides of neck, and entire under surface of body pure white, including 

 the under wing-coverts, axillaries, and the inner lining of the 

 quills. Total length 7 inches, culmen 0-55, wing 3-75, tail 3-1, 

 tarsus 0-8. 



Adult female. Different from the male ; brown with darker 

 centres to the feathers of the crown : lower back, rump, and upper 

 tail-coverts grey, with whitish edges to the feathers ; wing-coverts 

 and quills dark brown, all edged with sandy rufous : tail-feathers 

 brown, the feathe-rs edged and tipped with sandy buff, the two outer 

 ones tipped with white, extending up the outer web of the external 

 feather ; a narrow buffy white, eyebrow from the nostril over the 

 eye, succeeded by a streak of dusky brown through the eye ; sides 

 of face and imder surface of body buffy white, with obscure dusky 

 bars on the breast and sides of the body ; thighs greyish : under 

 w ing-coverts and quill-lining buffy white. Total length 7"3 inches, 

 wing 3'4o, tail 3-05, tarsus 0'7o. 



Young. Brown like the old female, but not grey on the lower 



