48. TEBI'SIPHUNJi. 3-19 



B. IT. Hodgson, Esq. [P.J. 

 B. H. Hodgson, Esq. I P.J. 

 Dr. B. Hinde [P.]. 



Hon. E.I. Co. [P.l. 

 ' hills. Colonel Sturt [P.J. 



Colonel Sturt [P.]. 



Colonel Sturt [P, 

 Colonel Sturt [P, 

 Purchased. 



Rev. H. H. Baber [P.J. 



Purchased. 



Hon. E.I. Co. [P.J. 



2. Terpsiphone aflBnis. 



Muscipeta paradisea, Eyton, P. Z. S. 1830, p. 102 (wee L.). 



Tchitrea aiiinis, A. Ilay, 3IS., undd 



Tchitrea affinis, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xv. p. 292; id. Cat. B. Mus. A. S. 



B. p. 203 ; Gray, Gen. B. iii. A2ip. p. 12 ; Horsf. S^ Moore, Cat. B. 



Mus. E.I. Co. i. p. 134 ; 3Ioore, P. Z. S. 1854, p. 270 ; Jerd. B. 



Ind. i. p. 448; iSchiter, P. Z. S. 1863, p. 217; Schl. N. T. D. iii. 



p. 8.j ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. 332, no. 5003 ; Walden, Ibis, 1872, 



p. 373 ; B/yth ^ Wald. B. Biirm. p. 131. 

 Muscipeta affinis, Bp. Consp. i. p. 325 ; Hume ^- Dacison, Str. F. vi. 



1878, p. 223. 

 Tchitrea paradisi, Schl. Dierk. fig. to p. 147 (nee L.). 

 Muscipeta affinis, var.. Wall. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 486. 

 Terpsiphone affinis, Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 137. 



Adult male. General colour pure white, with shaft-lines of black, 

 especially distinct ou the greater coverts ; quills black, externally 

 edged with white, the inner secondaries white, with longitudinal 

 black centres to the feathers ; tail-feathers white, with blackish 

 edges and with distinct black shafts ; head, sides of face, and entire 

 throat greenish black, without much metallic gloss ; remainder of 

 under surface of body, including the under wing-coverts, pure white ; 

 quiUs blackish below, broadly white along the inner web. Total 

 length 16-2 inches, culmen 0-75, wing 3-6, tail 5-2, middle tail- 

 feathers 13, tarsus 0'6. 



Adult female. General colour orange-rufous, brown on the mantle 

 and scapulars : rump, upper tail-coverts, and tail chestnut ; wing- 

 coverts like the back, the greater series orange-rufous, dusky brown 

 on the inner webs ; bastard wing, primary-coverts, and primaries 

 black, with a narrow edging of orange-rufous, the secondaries more 

 broadly margined, the innermost being entirely orange-rufous, with 

 longitudinal blackish centres to them ; croAvn and a moderate crest 

 glossy steel-blue ; sides of face and a narrow collar round the hind 

 neck and entire tlu'oat and breast ashy grey : remainder of the under 



