84 DIC^ID^. 



1. Rhamphocharis crassirostris. 



Rhampbocharis crassirostris, Salvad.Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. vii. p. 943 

 (1875), xvi. p. 69 (1880) ; id. Oru. Fapuasia etc. ii. p. 288 (1881). 



Adult male (tj'po of species). General colour above olive-green, 

 glossed with oil-greeu ; wing-coverts like the back ; greater wing- 

 coverts, bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills dusky brown, 

 edged with olive-green, brighter on the quills ; upper tail-coverts 

 dusky, washed with olive-green ; tail-feathers blackish, edged with 

 olive-green; lores olive dusky; edge of eyelid white; ear- coverts 

 and cheeks light ashy, with the upper parts of the ear-coverts dusky 

 olive ; entire under surface of body pearly grey, slightly washed 

 with pale yellow ; thighs and under tail-coverts a little darker ashy ; 

 axiUaries pale j-eUow ; wings white, with a pale yellow wash ; quiUs 

 dusky, ashy grey along the edge of the inner web. Total length 

 4-6 inches, culmen 0'6, wing 2*6, tail 1'75, tarsus 0'7. (Mus. Civic. 

 Oenov.) 



Adult female. General colour above olive-brown, rather greener 

 on the lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts, the head and back 

 being spotted with minute tips of yellowish white on the feathers ; 

 the scapulars olive-brown like the back, similarly tipped with tiny 

 white spots ; wing-coverts like the back, with white spots at the 

 end ; the greater coverts, bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills 

 dusky brown, edged with olive-green, the inner greater coverts with 

 a whitish spot at the ends, the margins of the primaries yellower; 

 tail-feathers blackish, edged with olive-green, with a tiny white 

 spot at the end of the inner web, increasing gradually in extent and 

 forming a well-marked spot on the outer tail-feathers ; an indistinct 

 eyebrow of pale olive-brown ; lores dusky ; eyelid whity brown ; 

 ear-coverts dull olive-brown, streaked with duU white; cheeks brown, 

 mottled with white spots ; under surface of body yellowish white, 

 mottled all over with dusky-brown centres to the feathers, smaller 

 on the throat and nearly obsolete on the abdomen ; thighs ashy 

 tinged with yellow ; under tail-coverts yellowish white with dusky 

 centres, the feathers mottled like the breast ; axillaries pale yellow ; 

 under wing-coverts white slightly washed with yellow, and mottled 

 wdth dark-brown bases to the feathers ; quills dusky below, greyish 

 white along the edge of the inner web. Total length 4-9 inches, 

 culmen 0*6, wing 2"85, tail l'8o, tarsus 0*75. (Alus. Civic. Genov.) 

 Hub. N.W. Now Guinea. 



