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AU'EDINIIKE. 



the inner web lighter at the base, the outer web distinctly washed 

 with ultramarine, especially on the secondaries ; tail blue above, 

 black beneath ; a loral spot and a patch of feathers along the sides 

 of the neck white, the latter slightly tinged with orange ; entire 

 under surface white, with a bluish lustre on the breast in some 

 lights ; sides of the breast and flanks rich ultramarine : " bill black ; 

 feet greenish grey ; irides dark blackish brown " {J. Gould). Total 

 length 4-8 inches, culmen 1"15, wing 2, tail U'So, tarsus 0-2o. 



A female in the Salviu-Godmaii collection, instead of being deep 

 ultramarine or purplish blue, is quite light blue in comparison to the 

 males. It may not be an adult bird, as I notice a greenish-blue 

 tinge on the wings of some of the other specimens. As a rule, how- 

 ever, the immature birds are easily distiugaished by their dull 

 coloration and by the blackish edgings to the feathers of the breast. 

 In very old specimens the blue is so extended on the lower breast as 

 almost to meet across the latter. 



Hah. Northern Australia. New Guinea and the adjacent Papuan 

 Islands, extending into the Moluccas. 



Wallace Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 

 C. F. Riedel, Esq. 



JP.]. 

 W allace Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 



Rev. G. Brown [C.l. 

 C. M. Woodford, 



Esq.rC.]. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



5. Alcyone richardsi. 



Alcyone richardsi, Tristr. Ibis, 1882, p. 134, pi. 4 ; Ram.say, Proc. 

 Linn. 8oc. N. S. W. vii. p. 42 (1882) ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. 

 Genov. xviii. p. 419 (1882) ; id. Orn. Papuasia, iii. p. 022 (1882) ; 

 id Affff. Orn. Papuasia, 1. p. 53 (1889). 



Adult. Bill black ; head blue, the forehead rather blacker ; a 

 spot between the bill and the eye and a patch behind the eye white; 

 back and tail ultramarine ; upper secondaries washed with blue ; 

 quills black ; throat and chest white ; a baud across the breast and 

 sides of body ultramarine-blue ; abdomen white ; vent blue ; feet 

 black. Total length 4-9 inches, bill from gape 1-4.5, wing 2-15, 

 tail 1-2. 



Hab. Rendova Island, Solomon Archipelago. 



a. S ad. sk. 



Rendova 

 Au-r. i; 



Island, Solomons, 



Capt. G. E. Ricliaids 



