11. BASILEOENIS. 95 



cation of greyish-white edgings to the feathers of the abdomen, and 

 those killed towards the end of March have a tendency to pnr- 

 plish rather than to greenish reflexions on the upper surface. 

 Hah. Manipur to Ui^per Burmah. 



a, 6. cJ 2 ad. sk. Manipur, Feb. 1881 {A. 0. H. ). Hume Coll. 



c,d. cJ; e-g. $ Manipur Khas, Feb. 1881 {A. O. H.). Hume Coll. 



h. 2 ad. sk. Manipur, March 1, 1881 {A. 0. H.). Hume Coll. 



i, k. c? ; l-n. 2 Sagam, Manipur, March 1881 (A. 0. Hume Coll. 



ad. sk. H.). 



o. J' ad. sk. Koombu, Manipur, March 31, 1881 Hume Coll. 



{A. O.K.). 

 p, q. S 9- fid. sk. Soognoo, Manipur, March 1881 {A. Hume Coll. 



0. H.). 

 r. S ad. sk. Between Manipur and Boori Bazar, Hume Coll. 



March 1881 (A. 0. H.). 

 s-w. <S ad. ; x-d'. Boori-Bazar, Manipur, March 1881 Hume Coll. 



2 ad. sk. {A. O. H.). 



e'-n. S ad. ; o'- Moirang, Manipur, March 1881 (A. Hume Coll. 



»•'. 5 ad. sk. O. H.). 



s'-u'. (S ad.; v'. Logtak Lake, Manipur, March 1881 Hume Coll. 



2 ad. sk. {A. 0. H.). 



lo' . (S ad. ; x, y . Kokshin-Koolel, Manipur, April 18S1 Hume Coll. 



2 ad. sk. (^. O. If.). 



z'. 2 ad. sk. Hierok, Manipur, May 1881 {A. O. H.). Hume Coll, 



a"-b". Ad. sk. Bhamo, Upper Burmah. Gates Coll. 



11. BASILEORNIS. 



Type. 



Basilornis, Bp. Consp. i. p. 420 (1850, ex Tenini. MSS.) . B. celebensis. 

 Basileornis, Walden, Trans. Z. S. viii. p. 77 (1872, no7n. 

 emend.). 



Range. Celebes ; Ceram. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Crest very long, arising from the occiput celebensis, p. 95. 



h. Centre of crown crested in a ridge of close- set 



plumes, not developing into a long occipital crest . corythaix, p. 96. 



1. Basileornis celebensis. 



Basilornis corythaix, pt., Bp. Consp. i. p. 420 (1850). 



Basilornis celebensis, Wall. His, 1861, p. 284, pi. ix. fig. 2; Gray, 



P. Z. S. 1861, p. 184, fig. 2; Finsch, Neu-Guineu, p. 174 (1865) ; 



Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 19, no. 6279 (1870); Briiyyem. Abhandl. 



nat. Ver. Bremen, v. p. 77 (1877) ; Meyer, Ibis, 1879, p. 13:3 ; 



Blasius, Zeitschr. yes. Orn. ii. p. 298 (1886). 

 Basileornis celebensis, Walden, Trans. Z. S. viii. p. 77 (1872). 



Adult. General colour above glossy greenish black, with here and 

 there some hair-like white plumelets ; lesser wing-coverts like the 

 back ; median coverts black, edged with glossy steel-green, less 

 distinct on the greater series, which are black, externally purplish ; 



