96 STTJENID^. 



quills black, externally glossed with purplish or steel- green ; tail- 

 feathers black, slightly purplish on the outer web ; head and neck 

 rather scaly in appearance, with a purplish crest of closely-pressed 

 feathers reaching along the centre of the crown from the posterior 

 half of the bill to the hind neck ; sides of crown, sides of face, ear- 

 coverts, and under surface of body glossy greenish black, with 

 frequent hair-like white plumelets on the face and throat ; on the 

 ear-coverts a patch of white feathers, followed by some stiffened 

 plumes of ochreous brown ; on each side of the breast a large patch 

 of yellowish white ; under wing-coverts and axillaries black, glossed 

 with steel-green ; quills brown, ashy whitish on the inner web : 

 " bill whitish blue-grey ; feet citron-yellow " {Platen). Total length 

 9 inches, culmen 0-95, wing 4-9, tail 3-2, tarsus 1'05. 



Young. Dusky black, the feathers of the upper surface broadly 

 edged with glossy green ; the head without any erect crest, the 

 feathers velvety black, glossed with green ; white patch on sides of 

 chest, and white spot on hinder cheeks both developed, but without 

 any j'cUow tinge ; under surface of body brown, streaked with 

 central spots of black, which have a glossy green appearance near 

 the ends. 



Hah. Celebes. 



a, b. Ad sk. Gorontalo, N. Celebes. Tweeddale Coll. 

 c, d. Ad. sk. Menado. Gould Coll. 



e. c? ad. sk. Meuado. Wallace Coll. 



/. 5 ad. ; (/. Juv. sk. Makassar. Wallace Coll. 



/*. S ad. sk. Makassar ( Wallace). Gould Coll. 



2. Basileornis corythaix. 



Pastor corythaix, War/ler, Si/st. Av., Pastor, sp. 4 (1827). 



Iletfcrornis corythaix, Gray, Gen. 13. ii. p. 335 (1847). 



Basilornis corythaix, Wall. Ibis, 1861, p. 284, pi. xi. fig. 1 ; Gray, 



P. Z. S. 1801, p. 184, fig. 1 ; Pmsch, A'eu-Gumea, p. 174 (1865) ; 



Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 19, no. 6278 (1870) ; Pelz. Verh. z.-b. 



Gesellsch. Wien, 1872, p. 430 ; Briiggem. Abhandl. nat. Ver. 



Bremen, Y.\). 17 (1877); Salvad. Ami. Mus. Civic. Genov. xvi, 



p. 195 (1880) ; id. Orn. Papuasia etc. ii. p. 4G0 (1881). 



Adult male. Similar to B. celebensis, but distinguished by the form 

 of the crest, which has a central ridge of long erect plumes ; the 

 white spot on the face without any ochreous ends to the feathers. 

 Total length 10'3 inches, culmen 1, wing 5"3, tail 3"7, tarsus 1-2. 



Hab. Coram. 



fl. c? ad. sk. Ceram. Wallace Coll. 



b. Ad. sk. Ceram. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



12. SAECOPS. ^ 



Type. 



Gymnops, Cuvier, Rbgne Anim. i. p. 381 (1829, nee Sinx, 1824) S. calvus. 

 Sarcops, Walden, Trans. Z. S. ix. p. 205 (1877) S. calvus. 



Range. Confined to the Philippine Islands. 



