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the wing-coverts, less blue on the head, and less developed plumes 

 on the ear-coverts, it may be an immature example. 

 Hub. Mysol. 



a. (S ad. sk. Mysol. A. E. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



b. Ad. sk. Mysol, A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



(Type of species.) 



c. Jun. sk, Mysol. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



5. Todopsis corouata. 



Todopsis corouata, Gould, Birds of New Guinea, part viii. 



Adult. Similar to T. wallacii ; but having the blue tips to the 

 feathers of the crown smaller and rounded iu shape instead of lan- 

 ceolate, and having also a distinct black streak under the eye. 



Hah. Aru Islands. 



a. Ad.sk. Aru Islands (FoM i^osewJtr//). Leyden Museum [P.]. 



40. CHENORHAMPHUS. 



Todopsis, pt., Wallace et auct. Type. 



Chenorhamphus, Onstalet, Bull. Assoc. Scient. de Frarice, 



no. 533 (1878) C. grayi. 



Range. Confined to North-western New Guinea. 

 1. Chenorhamphus grayi. 



Todopsis gi'ayi, Wallace, P. Z. <S'. 18G2, p. 16G; Fiiisch, Neu-Guinea, 



p. 168; Beccari, Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. vii. p. 709; Meyer, Sitz. 



k. Akad. Wien, Ixix. pp. 81, 212 ; Gould, B. Neiv Guinea, 



part \'iii. 

 Myiagra glauca, Scldcc/el, JV. T. D. iv. p. 41. 

 Todopsis sericyanea, JRoseiib. 



Tchitrea grayi, Grat/, Hand-l. B. i. p. 334, no. 5034. 

 Tchitrea sericyanea, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 334, no. 5035. 

 Chenorhamphus cyanopoctus, Onstalet, Bull. Assoc. Sci. France, no. 



533 (1878) ; Salvad. Ibis, 1879, p. 106. 

 Chenorhamphus grayi, S/iarjw, Notes Leyden 3fus. vol. i. no. 10, p. 31. 



Adult (type of species). General colour above dull blue, brighter 

 and more cobalt on the lower back and rump ; wing-coverts brown, 

 slightly washed externally with olive and tipped with dull verditer- 

 blue ; quills brown, broadly washed externally with olivaceous 

 brown; tail-feathers brown, externally bluish, slightly washed with 

 olivaceous on the margins and tipped with white ; head dull greyish 

 blue, inclining to ashy verditcr above the eyes and on the sides of 

 the crown ; feathers in front of the eye blackish, as also a broad 

 streak above the ear-coverts ; round the eye a circlet of verditer 

 feathers ; ear-coverts verditer-blue, the feathers rather elongated 

 and streaked with brighter cobalt ; cheeks and throat silvery whitish 

 with a bluish gloss, the rest of the under surface pale ashy blue, 

 washed with a cobalt shade ; under wing-coverts like the breast ; 



