63. PELTOPS. 



433 



Voim,/. Above brown, the bead and hind neck ashy erev the 

 scapulars rufescent at the tips, the rump rufous, becoming paler and 

 more fulvous on the upper tail-coverts ; wing-coverts dusky brown 

 broadly edg-ed externally with rufous-buft; becoming fulvous on the 

 median and greater coverts; quills dark brown, externally edged 

 with rufous, the primaries narrowly, the secondaries more broadly, 

 the innermost of the latter edged and tipped with buff ; tail-feathers 

 ashy bro^vn, narrowly edged with ochraceous brown and tipped 

 with white, more broadly on the outer feathers ; lores and a broad 

 eyebrow rufous-buff ; ear-coverts rather deeper rufous, shading on 

 to the sides of the throat; under surface of body light cinnamon- 

 rufous, inclining to fulvous on the throat and under tail-coverts • 

 under wing-coverts light cinnamon, like the breast; quills li-^ht 

 brown below, whitish along the inner web ; " bill horn-colour the 

 point brown under mandible paler; feet dirty white ; iris black" 

 (Rulxmj, MS.). Total length 6-6 inches, culmen 0-7, wing 3-25 

 tail 3, tarsus 1. ' & > 



. ffab. Island of Uap, Mackenzie group. 



6. Juv. sk. Island of Uap (Kubanj). Godeffroy Museum. 



63. PELTOPS. 



Peltops, Wa</ler, Isis, 1829, p. 63C. p bkinvilbi 



Lrolla, Lesson, Traite cVOni, p. 260 (1831) .... ' ' p" bla v ' 



Platystonuis, Swains. Classif. £. ii. p. 201 (1837) ....:: R blSinvillii; 



Range. Confined to New Guinea, Mysol, and Waigiou. 

 1. Peltops blainvillii. 



Euylaimus blainviUei, Gurmt, Vo,/. de la Coquille, Zool. i. p 595 

 pi. 19. fig. 2; Fimch, Neu-Gtmiea,-p. 160 ' 



Peltops blainvillei, Woffkr, Isis, 1829, p. 630; Gra>/, Gen. B i 

 p. Ob, pi. 22. fig. 2; Bp. Consp \ p. 169; Reichenh. Hanclb. 

 Merop. p. 69 pi. ccccxl figs 3211, 3212; Scla/er, Journ. Linn. 



PZ. S. I8bl, p. 433; Wallace, P. Z. S. 1802, p. 105 • Grau 

 Hand-l.B. i. p. 319, no. 4785; Salute,; Ibis, 1872, p 177 "^' 

 P. Z. S. 18/3, p. 090; Gould, Birds of New Gui>m,, pait 1- 

 Beceari, Ann Mns. Civic. Genov. vii. p. 708 ; Salvad. on. cit ix 

 p. 23, X. p. 131. ^ 



Erolla blainviUei, Less. Traite (VOrn. p. 200. 



Platystomus blainviUei, Swains. Classif. B. ii v ''>01 • id V„f 

 Hist. Flycatchers, p. 245, pi. 31. ' ^' ' "^• 



Adult General colour above and below glossy black, with somewhat 

 of a steel-green lustre ; upper margin of eyeHd and the ear-coverts 

 white ; on the intcrscapulary region also a white patch • rumD 

 upper and under tad-coverts, and vent bright crimson •' thighs 

 black : wings and tail black ; under wing-coverls and axillaries 

 pure white, as also the inner edges to the quills ; - bill feet -ind 



