16. HAICTON. 269 



Adult male. General colour above green, the mantle, scapulars, 

 and lesser wing-coverts being of this colour, with a blackish shade 

 below the white collar on the hind neck ; the back and upper tail- 

 coverts blue, a little brighter towards the latter ; median and 

 greater wing-coverts and outer aspect of quiUs blue, the latter 

 dusky blackish at the ends and on the inner webs ; tail blue, witli 

 blackish shafts and edges to the inner webs ; crown of head 

 greenish blue, brighter blue from behind the upper ej^e round the 

 nape ; lores, eyelid, sides of face, and ear-coverts black, washed 

 with blue on the latter, and continued in a black band round the 

 nape : a concealed occipital spot of white ; a supraloral spot of 

 sandy buff; over the eye a small streak of white ; underneath the 

 gape the black of the sides of the face is continued in a line along 

 the fore part of the cheeks : a broad collar round the hind neck, 

 remainder of the cheeks and entire under surface of body pale 

 ochreous buff, paling to whitish on the throat, cheeks, and sides of 

 neck, the collar round the latter being pale also ; flanks, under 

 wing-coverts, and axillaries deeper ochreous buff; quills dusky 

 below, rather ashy along the inner web : " biU black, the basal 

 half of the lower mandible fleshy white ; feet fleshy red, tinged 

 with brown ; iris dark brown " (J. Gould). Total length 7'5 

 inches, culmen 1-6, wing 3-75, tail 2*4, tarsus 0'4.5. 



Young. Similar to the adult, but with aU the colours much 

 duller ; the frontal feathers, all the wing-coverts, and inner second- 

 aries edged with sandy buff : the feathers of the under surface and 

 of the collar on the hind neck edged with dusky brown, producing 

 a narrowly barred appearance. 



After the first moult, though the colours of the young are almost 

 as bright as those of the adult, the dusky bars on the hind neck 

 and under surface arc retained for some considerable time. The 

 back is, moreover, more olive-green than in the adults. 



Hub. Australia to New Caledonia, the Solomon Islands and New 

 Hebrides, throughout the Papuan Islands to the Moluccas, Celebes, 

 Lombock, Java, and Sumatra. 



a. Imm. sk. Australia. Liunean Society. 



(Type of species.) 



b. Ad. sk. AustraUa. Sir D. Cooper [P.], 



c. Ad. sk. Australia (Sharpe Coll.). Tweeddale Coll. 



d. Ad. sk. Australia. Gould Coll. 



e,f. Ad. St. South Australia. Sir G. Grey [P.]. 



ff. (5 ad. sk. South Australia. Gould CoU. 



h. Imm. sk. South Australia. Capt. Start [P.]. 



i. 2 iunn. sk. Petersham, South Australia, Tweeddale Coll. 



July 19 {.S/iarpe Coll.). 



^. Ad. sk. '^lelhourne (S/iarpe Coll.). Tweeddale Coll. 



I. Ad. sk. New South Wales. Gould Coll. 



m. Ad. sk. New South Wales. Tweeddale Coll. 



n. (S ad. sk. Himter River, N. S. W., Sept. Gould CoU. 



0. Ad. sk. Clareuce River. Tweeddale CoU. 



p-s. Ad. et imm. Queensland {Sharpe Coll.). Tweeddale CoU. 



sk. 



t-i\ Imm. sk. Queensland (J. T. Cockerell). Salviu-Godman Coll. 



