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and ear-coverts bright silvery cobalt, a little deeper blue on the 

 sides of the neck ; under surface of body pure white, the sides of 

 the upper breast brown, washed with blue ; the flanks also slightly 

 mottled with black bases; under wing- coverts, axillaries, and quill- 

 liuing black ; edge of wing silvery blue. Total length 13-5 inches, 

 culmen I'S;"), wing 4-1, tail 4, centre feathers 8, tarsus 0'G5. 

 Hnh. Island of Misori in the Bay of Geelvink, New Guinea. 



«. (S ad. sk. Koido, Misori, April. Dr. A. B. Meyer [0.]. 



b. $ ad. ; c. Ad. Kordo, Misori, April i^A. B. Tweeddale Coll. 



sk. Meyer), 



d. 5 ad. sk. Kordo, Misori. Gould Coll. 



20. Tanysiptera carolinsB. 



Tanysiptera carolinie, Sclil. Nederl. Tijdschr. Dierk. iv. p. 13 (1871 ; 

 ex Rosenb. MSyS.) ; id. Mus. Pays-Bas, Alced. lievue, p. 41 

 (1874); Bosenb. Reist. nnar Geelvinkh. pp. 37, 115, 138, pi. 14. 

 tig. 1 (1875) ; Beccari, Ann. Mus. Ge?ior. vii. p. 708 (1875); 

 Gould, B. New Guinea, iv. pi. 47 (1876) ; Salmd. Ann. Mus. 

 Civic. Genov. x. p. 303 (1877) ; id. Orn. Papuasia etc. i. p. 424 

 (1880). 



Adult male. General colour above deep ultramarine-blue ; the 

 wings like the back, the quills blackish at the ends and on the 

 inner webs ; lesser and median wing-coverts brighter than the rest 

 of the wing; lower back, rump, upper tail-coverts, and tail white ; 

 sides of lower back and rump black, washed with blue ; the exposed 

 shaft of the two long tail-feathers blue, followed by a white racket ; 

 crown of head and hind neck ultramarine, brighter than the back, a 

 little brighter above the car-coverts ; sides of face, ear-coverts, and 

 entire under surface of body ultramarine; under tail-coverts white; 

 under wing-coverts, axillaries, and under surface of quills black ; 

 the edge of the wing blue. Total length 13 inches, culmen 1-5, 

 wing 4-2, tail 3-7, central tail-feathers 7, tarsus 0-7. 



Hab. Island of Mafor in the Bay of Geelvink. 



a, b. Ad. sk. Mafor Island (.4. B. Meyer). Gould Coll. 



c, d. Ad. sk. ]\Iafor Island {A. B. M.). Tweeddale Coll. 



e. S ad. sk. Mafor, May 30. Dr. Beccari [C.]. 



