30. TODOPsis. 283 



cobalt-blue, narrowing on the nape: a frontal bund, sides of face, 

 sides of crown, and nape black, extending in a narrow collar round 

 the hind neck : entire under surface of body deep blue, brighter on 

 sides of breast and flanks ; under wing-coverts black, slightly shaded 

 with blue ; cjuills black, edged with ashy brown along the inner 

 web. Total length 5 inches, culmen 0'65, wing 2-3, tail 2*5, 

 tarsus 0*9. (Mus. Civic. Genov.) 



Adult female (Kordo, Misori, Beccari). General colour above ma- 

 roon-brown, the wings like the back ; quills dark brown, externally 

 like the back, the edges to the primaries somewhat paler ; tail deep 

 blue, tipped with white ; crown of head ultramarine ; forehead, 

 sides of crown, sides of face, and neck black, slightly shaded with 

 blue, more distinct on the hind neck ; chin and upper throat deep 

 blue ; remainder of under surface white, the sides of the body, 

 thighs, and under tail-coverts light maroon, shaded with lilac on the 

 sides of the fore neck ; under wing-coverts paler maroon ; quills duU 

 brown below, edged with light rufous on the inner web. Total 

 length 5 inches, wing 2-2, tail 2-3, tarsus 0*9. Qlus. Civic. 

 Genov.) 



Hub. Island of Misori, in the Bay of Geelvink. 



•i. Todopsis wallacii. 



Todopsis wallacii, Gray, P. Z. S. 1861, pp. 429, -4.34, pi. 43. fig. 2 : 

 Fi)isch, Neii-Guinea, p. 108; Meyer, iiitz. k. Akad. Wien, Ixix. 

 p. 81 ; Gould, B. Neic Guinea, part viii. 



Tchiti-ea wallacii. Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 334, no. 5033. 



Adult. Crown of head cobalt, each feather with a mesial streak of 

 silvery blue, and all black at the bases ; entire back orange-chestnut, 

 duller on the rump and upper tail-coverts ; wing-coverts brown, the 

 least ones washed with orange-chestnut, the median and greater 

 series broadly tipped with white, the latter scries also externally 

 edged with the same ; quills brown, externally washed with olive- 

 brown ; tail brown, all the feathers tipped with white ; lores and a 

 ring of feathers round the eye white ; below the front of the eye a 

 blackish spot ; sides of head above the ear-coverts black, as also the 

 hinder part of the cheeks ; ear-coverts elongated, pure white ; 

 throat and under surface of body pure white, including the under 

 wing- and tail-coverts : thighs dusky blackish. Total length 4-4: 

 inches, culmen 0-Go, wing 1-95, tail 1-95, tarsus 0-8. 



Obs. Two other specimens measure as follows : — 



Total length. Culmen. Wing. Tail. Tarsus, 

 in. in. in. in. in. 



a. Mysol ( Wallace) . . 



b. Mysol ( Wallace) . . 



As none of the above specimens agree exactly with Mr. Gray's 

 measurements, I caunot say which is the typical one : but it is not the 

 specimen marked <•, which is the bird spoken of by Mr. Gray {I. c.) as 

 tiie noumj. It differs from the bird described in having the throat 

 buff instead of white, while, from its having smaller white tips to 



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