13. MAINATFS. 



Subsp. /3. Mainatus robustus. 



109 



^'(1887)™^"'^"' *''''"^- ^""- ^^'''- ^''''''- ^"'"''- (^) '''■■ V- 554 



Adult Similar to M javanensh, but much larger, with a very stout 

 bill, the bare cheek-patch united to the occipital lappets ; a very broad 

 ransverse white patcli on the wing, twice ir three times as S as 

 in ^Ijara^uns^s and having the secondaries also marked in the 

 middle with white: "bill reddish orange, with a vellow tip feet 

 jelJow ; lappets orange-red " (Modl^jUuni). Total length 13 is cS 

 inches, culmen 1-1-15 win* 7-t S-'^ fnii qq- i i- ^ , ^ 



(Sahadori.) ' ^ ' ^"^ ^' ^"'^ 3-3o-4-lo, tarsus 1-65. 



//«6. Island of Xias. 



f. ^ fTfl^^'T''^ ^^^^' '^^^" ^ comparison is possible, it will be 

 found that V. robustusis merely a modified form of J/. anJcmZ^^^ 

 perhaps a larger race As has been shown in the descriptio 7the 

 latter foi-m the number of secondaries marked with whi e varLs to 



Tat in rir. " ''''''''- '''' ''--'- - -^ «^ ^P-^c 



5. Mainatus ptilogenys. 



GraciJa ptilogenvs, Bl>/th, J. A. S. Bene,, xv. p. 285 (1846) ; id Cat 



K^Ins. As.^oc. p 108 (1849); Bp. Consp. i. V 423 1850) • 



Kelaart, Prodromus Cat. ^. 125 (1852); Layard %in X n i^l 



xn . p. 216 (1854) ; Schl. %. T. h. ill. \. ^^T 'fi. Th 88^" ^^ 



^c?«7rm«?e Black, with the following reflexions -.-purple on the 

 crown, sices of head, neck all round, hind neck, and LA\l sttt 

 !,rcen on the back, rump, upper tail-coverts, scapulars, and lesser 

 wing-coverts, with here and there a faint shade of purple • Vea er 

 cover s black with a broad purplish edging; bastard^^wil., prim •- 

 co^erts, and quills black, with the usual large patch of wh te on the 

 Fimaries the first ong quills being marked oli the inner web onlv 

 the econd to the sixth on both webs, and the seventh without ^ 

 mark on either web; the innermost secondaries with a nar w 

 puri^sh edging: tail purplish black : throat and chest purpewith 

 anoily-green shade across the fore neck ; breast and rema ndeT of 

 underparts green, with a shade of piu-ple on the thigh ? under 

 wing-coyerts and axillanes black, with purplish edgings near the 

 edge of the wmg : " bill orange-red, with the upper mandible Ma k 

 from gape to nostril and the lower for uearlv hllf its length le^t 

 and feet gamboge-yellow ; claws blackish ; lappets rich yellow' iri 

 greyish white dappled with brown" (17. v! Leg^e). TotallenSh 

 9-0 inches, culmen 1-2, wing 5-9, tail 2-55, tarsus 1-35 " 



