108 CAJIPOPnAGID^E. 



18. Lalage aurea. 



CeblepjTis aureus, Temm. PL Col. ii. pi. 382. fig. 2 ; <S^. Miill Nat. 



Versch. Land- en Volkenk. p. 190 ; Riipp. Mus. Senck. iii. p. 24 ; 



Jacq. et Fucker. Voy. Pule Slid, iii. Ois. p. 71; Hartl. J, f. 0. 1854, 

 , p. 103. 

 Eclienilleur oranga, Somhr. et Jacq. Voij. Pule Sud, Atlas, pi. 10. 



fig. 3. 

 Campepliaga aurea, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 283; id. Sand-l. B, i. p. 339. 

 Lalage aurea, Bp. Cunsp. i. p. 355 ; id. C. B. xxxviii. p. 541 ; Hartl. 



J. f. O. 18U5, p. 108; Fmsch, Keii-Guinea, p. 172; J. f. O. 



18(J6, p. 12 ; Walden, Tr. Z. S. viii. p. 70. 

 Campephaga (Lalage) aurea, Gi-ay, P. Z. S. 18G0, p. 353. 



Adult male. General colour above glossy blue-black, witb a few 

 of the lower rump-feathers uarrowlj' edged with white (perhaps the 

 remains of young plumage) ; least wiug-coverts like the back, the 

 median series white, forming a bar across the wing ; greater series 

 black, white for the terminal half, forming a second wing-bar ; 

 primary-coverts and quills black, white along their inner webs, the 

 secondaries broadly margined with white externallj% forming a 

 long-itudiual wing-bar ; tail black, the two outer feathers conspicu- 

 ously tipped with white ; over the eye a narrow streak of white, 

 round the eye a ring of white feathers ; feathers at base of bill, in 

 front of and behind the eye, blue-black like the crown ; ear-coverts 

 white, black on their upper margin, the white extending a little 

 way down the sides of the neck ; chin and cheeks also white ; rest 

 of under surface of body chestnut, paler on the throat ; thighs black, 

 with white tips to the feathers ; on the lower flanks a tuft of silky 

 white feathers hanging over from the lower back ; under wing- 

 coverts pure white, as also the inner lining of the quills. Total 

 leng-th 8 inches, culmen 0-55, wing 3-9, tail ;3-4, tarsus 0-8. 



Adult female. DifPers from the male in being slaty grey with a 

 gloss of blue-black, tlie feathers of the crown with blackish centres ; 

 M'ings and tail as m the male, but the white tip to the penultimate 

 tail-feather very indistinct; white eyebrow very narrow; cheeks 

 and ear-coverts mottled, white with dusky grey margins : under 

 surface as in male, but the white chin-spot indistinct. Total length 

 7'5 inches, wing 3-7, tail 3-15, tarsus 0-75. 



Young male. Similar to adult female, but with white cheeks as in 

 old male ; eyebrow continued to base of bill, and tinged with rusty ; 

 feathers of rump and ujjper tail-coverts edged with rust-colour, as 

 also many of the feathers of the upper surface ; primary-coverts 

 tipped with white ; feathers of the breast with mesial spots of dark 

 brown ;- chin rufous, like the rest of the under surface. (Mus. Civic. 

 Genov.) 



Hah. Molucca Islands : Batchian, Gilolo, Ternate, Morty Island. 



«, &. c? 2 ad. sk. Temate. A. R. Wallace, Esq. rC.l. 



c, d. J 5 ad. sk. Batchian. A. E. "Wallace, Esq. [0.]. 



e. S juv. sk. Batchian. A. E.AVallace, Esq. [C.J. 



