20. TANTSIPTEEA. 299 



(1880) ; id. in GouhTs B. New Gvinea, iv. pi. 49 (1882) ; id. 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. x\i. p. 429 (1882 : Taburi district ; Milne Bay ; 

 China Straits) ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Genov. xviii. p. 420 (1882) ; id. 

 Orn. Papuasia, iii. p. 52.3 (1882) ; Fi)isch, ^- Meyer, Zeitschr. (jes. 

 Orn. iii. p. 14(1886; Milne Bay) ; Salvad. Aycj. Orn, Fapuasia, i. 

 p. 55 (1889). 



Adult (type of species). General colour above warm ochreous 

 brown ; the lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts bright 

 vermilion, some of the long upper tail-coverts blackish ; scapulars 

 like the back ; wing-coverts dark blue, with a patch of silvery 

 cobalt on the lesser wing-coverts, the inner ones of this series being 

 more brilliant ; bastard-wing, primarj'-coverts, and quills blackish, 

 externally washed with blue ; centre tail-feathers blue, with an 

 elongated white tip, not forming a distinct spatula ; remainder of 

 tail-feathers purplish blue, blackish on the inner web, with a white 

 spot at the end of the inner web of the central and outermost 

 feathers ; head like the back ; eyebrow and feathers below the eye 

 light cinnamon ; ear-coverts a little warmer brown, like the back ; 

 under surface of body bright vermilion, paler on the throat, the 

 sides of body and under wing-coverts light fawn-colour ; anterior 

 aspect of thighs blackish. Total length 10-5 inches, culmen 1-25, 

 wing 3"45, tail 3, centre feathers 6-2, tarsus 0*6. 



Young. Much duller in colour than the adult ; the wing-coverts 

 dusky, tipped with ochreous brown ; tail-feathers blue, edged with 

 huffy white near the ends of the centre feathers; under surface 

 ochreous buff, with vermilion only on the breast. 



Hah. S.E. N'ew Guinea. 



a. tS ad. ; b, c. Milne Bay. K. Hunstein [C.]. 

 Imm.sk. (Types of species.) 



d. Ad. sk. Astrolabe Mts. {A. Goldie). Sliarpe Coll [P.]. 



e. Ad. : /. Jiiv. sk. Astrolabe Mts. Gould Coll. 



g, h. Ad. sk. Astrolabe Mts. {A. Goldie). Tweeddale Coll. 



3. Tanysiptera nigriceps. 



Tanysiptera nigriceps, Scl. P. Z. S. 1877, p. 105 ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. 

 Genov. x. p. 303 (1877) ; Gould, B. Ken- Guinea, iv. pi. 50 (1878) ; 

 Finsch, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 10 ; E. L. C. Lai/ard, Ibis, 1880, p. 299 

 (Duke of York Island) ; Salvad. Orn. I'apuasia etc. i. p. 455 

 (1880); Finsch, Voff. der Siidsee, p. 9 (1884); Salvad. Ay;/. Orn. 

 Papuasia, i. p. 55 (1889). 



AcluU female. General colour above black, with a large white 

 patch in the centre of the back ; lower back, rump, and upper tail- 

 coverts white, the latter with a good deal of black on the inner 

 web : sides of lower back and rump black ; wing-coverts deep 

 ultramarine ; quills black externally ultramarine ; tail-feathers 

 black, the centre ones white internally and dull ultramarine on tlie 

 outer web ; lores, sides of face, ear-coverts, and sides of neck 

 black ; cheeks and under surface of body pale tawny buff ; sides of 

 body blackish, as also the inner aspect of the thighs : under tail- 



