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Total length 4-5 inches, culmen 0-55, -wing 2-65, tail I'To, tarsus 

 0-85. 



Hah. Bow or Harp Island, Low Archipelago. 



a. [?] Ad. sk. Bow Island {Dr. Hinds). Zoological Society. 



(Type of species.) 



10. OEEOCHARIS. 



Typo. 



Oreocliaris, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Gciwv. vii. p. 9.39 (1875) O. arfaki. 

 Cliloromyias, Ousiakt, Bull. Assoc. France, 18S0, p. 172 . . 0. arfaki. 



Bill and head of Creocharis arfaJcL 

 Ranr/e. New Guinea. 



1. Oreocharis arfaki. 



Pai-us P arfaki, Meyer, Sits. Isis Dresd. 1875, 1st April ; id. Mitth. 

 Zool. Mus. Ih-esd. i. p. 8 (1875) ; Gould, B. New Guinea, iv. pi. 13 



Oreocharis stictoptera, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic, Genov. Tii. p. 939 

 (1875). 



Oreocharis arfaki, Salvad. op. cit. xii. p. 333 (1878), xvi. p. 70 (1880) ; 

 id. Orn. Bupuasia etc. ii. p. 289 (1881) ; Sharpe, Journ. Linn. Soc, 

 Zool. xvi. p. 486 (1882) ; Salvad. Orn. Papuasia, iii. App. p. 540. 



Chloromyias laglaizei, Oust. Bull. Assoc. France, 1880, p. 173. 



Adult male. General colour above olive-green, with a slight gloss 

 of steel-green ; wing-coverts like the back, the greater series rather 

 more yellowish green externally ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts 

 black, narrowly edged with dull green ; quills black, externally edged 

 with green, yellow on the primaries, tlie inner secondaries with a 

 large spot of "bright yellow at the end of the outer web ; upper tail- 

 coverts greenish grey ; tail-feathers blackish, washed with greenish 

 grev on the edges ; crown of head glossy blue-black as far as the 

 occiput, which is green as well as the nape ; lores, eyelid, cheeks, 

 and sides of neck blue-black ; the lower edge of the eyelid, feathers 

 below the eye, and ear-coverts bright golden yellow ; throat and 

 fore neck blue-black ; remainder of under surface of the body from 

 the fore neck downwards rich golden yellow, with a longitudinal 

 patch of ruddy chestnut down the centre of the body ; thighs black ; 

 axillaries bright golden yellow ; under wing-coverts paler yeUow, 

 with white bases, and mottled with black bases near the edge of 

 the wing : quills blackish below, yeUow along the inner web. 

 Total length 5 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 2-9, tail l-'Jo, tarsus 0-75. 



