Go. STOPAROLA. 435 



black, extending ujwn the mantle, the feathers of which are mostly 

 black broadly tipped with white ; breast also black, some of the 

 feathers edged with dull white ; remainder of under siirface, in- 

 cluding the axillaries and tail-coverts, pure white ; thighs black ; 

 under wing-coverts black, the lower ones tipped with white ; quills 

 for the most part white below, blackish towards their ends. Total 

 length 6-5 inches, culmen 0*6, wing 3-5, tail 2-1, tarsus 1"05. 



Adult male. Entirely black all over, slightly glossy, the breast 

 somewhat browner, as also the inner webs of the quills ; " bill pale 

 bluish black ; feet bluish black ; iris bluish black '' {Forster). Total 

 length 7'5 indies, culmen U-7, wing 3"7, tail 3-25, tarsus I'l. 



Hah. Society group of islands ; Marquesas group. 



a. cJ ad. sk. Otahiti. Purchased. 



h. Ad. sk. Society Islands. Zoological Society. 



c. Ad. sk. Marquesas Islands. Purchased. 



2. Pomarea castaneiventris. (Plate XI. fig. 2.) 



Monarcba castauei\entris, Verr. Eev. et May. de Zool. 1858, p. 304 ; 

 Gray, B. Trop. Isl. Facif. Ocean, p. 19 ; id. Hand-l. B. i. p. 320, 

 no. 4793. 



Adult male (type of species). General colour above glossy black ; 

 wings black, the quills somewhat browner ; tail black ; sides of 

 face, sides of neck, throat, and fore neck glossy black like the upper 

 surface ; remainder of under surface of body chestnut ; imder 

 wing-coverts and axillaries chestnut, those near the edge of the 

 wing black ; quills ashy black below, whitish along the edge of the 

 inner web. Total length 7 inches, culmen 0"7, wing 3-6, tail 3, 

 tarsus 0'75. 



Hah. Oceania. 

 a. Ad. sk. [Oceania.] M. Verreaux. (Type 



of species.) 



65. STOPAROLA. ™ 



Type. 



Stoparola, B!i/th, J. A. S. B. xvi. p. 125 (1845) S. melanops. 



Eum_\Tias, Cabanis, 3Ius. Hein. Th. i. p. 5.3 (1850) S. indigo. 



Glaucomyias, Cabanis, Mas. Hein. Th. i. p. 53, note (1850) S. melanops. 



Range. Indian peninsula and Ceylon, ranging eastwards into 

 China and the Burmese countries ; southwards, through the Ma- 

 layan peninsula to the Sunda Islands and the Philippines. 



Key to the Species. 



a. "With the base of the tail white. 



a'. Upper tail-coverts black ; upper surface bright 



blue ; the forehead, eyebrow, and throat 



bright cobalt ; under wing-coverts white . . indigo, p. 436. 

 h'. Upper tail-co\ i-rts dull blue, like the back, 



tue eyebrow, forehead, aud throat scarcely 



lighter ; uuder wing-coverts ashy brown, 



washed with blue albicaudata, p. 437. 



