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

 with a slight steel-green lustre, which is more distinct on the sca- 

 pulars ; lesser and median wing-coverts glossy steel-green with 

 velvetj-black bases ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills ashy 

 blackish, externally glossy steel-green ; upper tail-coverts very long, 

 glossy steel-blue ; tail-feathers black, waved with dusky under 

 certain lights, glossed externally with steel-blue ; the basal half of 

 all the feathers white, only seen when the tail is spread ; head 

 glossy steel-green ; lores, feathers round the eye, cheeks, oar- coverts, 

 and sides of face velvety black ; a little spot of silky white on the 

 upper edge of the eyelid ; under surface of body pale slaty blue ; 

 thighs and under tail-coverts black, the latter washed with steel- 

 blue ; a large tuft of silky white plumes on the side of the body ; 

 axillaries and under wing-coverts white ; quills blackish, white 

 along the inner web ; bill and feet black. Total length 5-8 inches, 

 culmen 0-55, wing 2-45, tail 3, tai'sus 0"95. 



Adult female. General colour above dull olive-green, slightly yel- 

 lower on the rump and upper tail-coverts ; wing-coverts like the 

 back ; bastard-wing uniform dusky brown ; primary-coverts and 

 quills dusky brown, narrowly margined with yellowish olive, the 

 secondaries more broadly edged with olive-green like the greater 

 coverts ; two centre tail-feathers olive-green, blackish towards the 

 base ; remainder of tail-feathers blue-black, browner at the ends, 

 edged with olive-green, the three outer ones with a white spot about 

 the middle of the feather ; head like the back ; lores, feathers round 

 the eye, cheeks, and ear-coverts dingy olive, with pale shaft-lines on 

 the ear-coverts ; under surface of body ashy olive washed with pale 

 yellow, with narrow edges of the latter colour to most of the fea- 

 thers ; thighs dull ashy ; under tail-coverts dingy olive ; on the 

 flanks a tuft of milky white ; axillaries pale yellow ; under wing- 

 coverts white, washed with pale yellow ; quills dusky below, greyish 

 white along the edge of the inner web. Total length 5'6 inches, 

 culmen 0'55, wing 2-65, tail 2-6, tarsus 0-85. 

 Hah. Arfak Mountains, N.W. New Guinea. 



a, 6. (5 $ ad. sk. Arfak Mountains, Java. Mr. Bruijn [C.]. 



19. RHAMPHOCHARIS. 



Type. 



Ehamphocharis, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. vii. 

 p. 943 (1875) E. crassirostris. 



Bill of Ehamphocharis crassirostris. 

 Range. New Guinea. 



