Gl. PIEZOKHYNCHUS. 413 



Gl. PIEZORHYNCHUS. 



Type. 



Piezorhynchus, Gould, P. Z. S. 1840, p. 171 P. alecto. 



Sympos'iachru.s, Bp. C. R. xxxviii. p. 650 (1854) P. triv-irgat 



Head of Pcezorht/nchus alecto. 



Eanr/e. Australia ; Papuan islands ; Moluccas ; Timor group ; 

 Louisiade archipelago. 



Kei/ to the Sjjecies, 

 a. Upper surface uniform, the mautle not differing 

 from the crown in colour. 

 a'. Under tail-coverts bottle-green, lihe the rest i „ig^f„ „ 43^5 



of the under siu-face of body j nitidus,^. ^IG. 



b'. Under tail-coverts chestnut or rufous. 



a". Under tail-coverts like the entire under 

 surface of body ; throat black in male ; 

 upper surface chestnut-browTi ; tail en- 

 tirely chestnut ritbiensis, p. 417. 



b". Under tail-coverts nofous ; breast white or 

 bufly white, like the throat. 

 a'". Mantle Ught chestnut, like the back . . alecto 2 > P- 4:15. 

 b'". Mantle dark ashy, shaded with the 

 purple colour of the head, and separa- 

 ting the latter from the back, which is 



dark chestnut nitidus 5 , p. 416, 



c'. Under tail-coverts white, like the abdomen, 

 sometimes with a slight tinge of orange. 

 c" . Side* of throat and fore neck and chest 

 orange, as also the sides of the body. 

 c'". Wings grey, the coverts and edges of 

 the qrulls gi'ey, like the back, 

 fl'. Forehead black, not separated from 

 the grey crown by a line of orange- 

 rufous. 

 a'. Upper tail-coverts black. 



a*. White ending to outer tail-fea- 

 thers not exceeding an inch in 

 length. 

 a' . Much larger; wing .3-1 inches: 

 frontal line of black only 0'15 

 inch in extent ; black spot on 

 the throat confined to the 

 chin, not more than 0-2 inch, 

 so as scarcely to extend be- 

 yond the ramus of the jaw. . bernsftini, p. 417. 



