16. UEOCHAEIS. 17. MELAITOCHAEIS. 79 



1. Urocharis longicauda. 



Melanocharis longicauda, Salmd. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. rii. p 942 



(1875), X. p. 144 (1877 j, xii. p. 333 (1878). 

 Urocharis longicauda, Sahad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. xvi. p. 69 



(1880) ; id. Orn. Papiasia etc. ii. p. 286 (1881). 



Adult male' (tyi^e of species). General colour above glossy steel- 

 black, the feathers -nith ashy-grey bases, which show rather dis- 

 tinctly on the rump ; lesser and median wing-coverts like the back ; 

 greater coverts, bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills black, 

 edged with steel-black like the back, less distinctly on the primaries • 

 tail-feathers black, slightly glossed on the margins with steel-blue, 

 the outer tail-feather white for three quarters of the outer web ; 

 crown of head like the back ; eyelid also black ; lores and sides of 

 face dusky olive, blackish along the hinder margin of the ear-coverts ; 

 throat and chest ashy olive, clearer olive-yellowish on the breast 

 and abdomen, the feathers in most cases margined with pale yeUow ; 

 thighs dusky olive ; under tail-coverts dusky olive, with pale yel- 

 lowish margins; axillaries pale yellow; under wing-coverts silky 

 white, washed with pale yellow ; quills blackish below, ashy white 

 along the edge of the inner web. Total length 4-8 inches, culmen 

 0-5, wing 2-5, tail 2, tarsus 0-7. (2Ius. Civic. Genov.) 



Adult female. Ditferent from the male. General colour above 

 olive-green, with an oily green gloss; wing-coverts like the back; 

 bastard-M-ing, primary-coverts, and primaries blackish, obsoletely 

 edged with olive-green like the back, the secondaries with broader 

 olive-green margins like the greater wing-coverts ; tail as in the 

 male ; head olive-green like the back, and with the same oily green 

 gloss ; eyelid and sides of face ashy olive, the lores and cheeks ashy 

 grey washed with olive; under surface of body as in the male. 

 Total length 5-1 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 2-45, tail 2-2, tarsus 

 0-65. (31its. Civic. Genov.) 



Hah. Ai-fak Mountains, New Guinea. 



17. MELANOCHARIS. 



Type. 

 Melanocharis, Sclater, Proc. Linn. Soc. ii. p. 157 (1858) M. nigi-s 



1 



Head and bill of M. chloroptera. 



Range. New Guinea, Aru Islands, Jobi, Miosnom, Mysol, and 

 Waigiou. 



