20. TANYSIPTERA. 



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former edged with blackish, the latter with blue ; tail-feathers 

 blackish with a slight blue gloss, the centre ones a little longer 

 than the rest, and more or less mottled with white on the inner 

 web ; cheeks and under surface of body pale tawny buff, with dusky 

 fringes to the feathers. 

 Hah. N.E. Australia. 



a, b. Ad. sk. 

 c. 2 ad. st. 



Cape York. 

 Cape York. 



d. Juv. sk. Cape York. 



e. (S ad. ;/, y. Cape York {Sharpe Coll.). 

 2 ad. ; h. Juv. 



sk. 

 /, k. c5' ad. ; I. Cape York. 



2 ad. sk. 

 m-p. c? ad.; (j-t. Cape York {J. T. Cockerell). 



5 ad. ; tc-io. 



imm. sk. 

 X. Ad. sk. Port Albany {Co.ven). 



J. Macgillivray [C.]. 



(Types of species.) 

 Capt. Owen Stanley 



[P.]. 

 Purchased. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 



Gould Coll. 

 Salvin-Godmau Coll. 



Tweeddale Coll. 



5. Tanysiptera salvadoriana. 



Tanysiptera sylvia (nee Gould), Salvad. S,- D' Albert. Ann. Mus. 



Genov. vii. p. 815 (1875) ; Salvad. op. cit. x. p. 303 (1877, pt.) ; 



Sharpe, Journ. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 493 (1878), xiv. p. 629 (1879) ; 



Finsch, Vd(j. der SMsee, p. 31 (1881). 

 Tanysiptera salvadoriana, Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. iii. 



p.' 259 (1878), iv. p. 97 (1879) ; \'ialvad. Ibis, 1879, p. 322 ; S/mrpe, 



Journ. Li>in. Soc. xvi. p. 429 (1882 ; Maroco) ; Salvad. Orn. 



Papuasia etc. i. p. 453 (1880) ; id. 02). cit. iii. p. 523 (1882) ; id, 



Affff. Orn. Papuasia, i. p. 55 (1889). 



Adult. Similar to T. sylvia, but altogether a paler bird, the head 

 lighter and more cobalt-blue ; forehead black ; the scapulars 

 and wings of a greenish blue, and the cheeks and under surface of 

 body pale cinnamon : " bUl and feet orange-red ; iris blackish " 

 {D'Albertis). Total length 11-5 inches, culmen 1-25, wing 3*7, 

 tail 2"9, centre tail-feathers 8'3, tarsus 0"6. 



Hah. S.E. New Guinea. 



a, b. Ad. etjuv. sk. 

 c, d. Ad. sk. 



e. Ad. sk. 



Port Moresby. 

 Port Moresby. 



Port Moresby {A. Goldie). 



Gould Coll. 

 Messrs. Goldie & 



Broadbeut [C.]. 

 Tweeddale CoU. 



6. Tanysiptera doris. 



Ji. 1. p. UU, uo. iU( / (i»0'jj ; li/iarpe, f. A. <5. ioou, p. Odi ; la. 

 Monogr. Alced. p. 203, pi. 101 (1870) ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Genov. 

 X. p. 302 (1877) ; id. Orn. Pajmasia etc. i. p. 429 (1880). 

 Daceli) sabriua, pt., »SV/(^. Mus. Pui/s-£as, Alced. p. 4(> (18G3); id. 



