14. MIXO. Ill 



14. MINO. 



Type. 



Miuo, Lassun, Voij. Coquille, Zool. i. p. 651 (1826) M. dumonti. 



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Head of Mino dumonti, to show bare face. 

 liamje. New Guinea and adjacent islands to the Southern group. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Black feathers on throat running to a point on the 



chin ; vent veUow as well as the lower abdomen . . dumonti, p. 111. 



b. Black feathers on throat rounded ; lower abdomen 



and vent white hke the under tail-coverts kreffti, p. 112. 



1. Mino dumonti. 



Miuo dumonti, Less. Voy. Coquille, Zool. i. p. G52, pi. 2o (1826) ; 



Kittl. K-iipf. Vof/. p. 9, Taf. xiii. fig. 1 (1833) ; Salvad. Ann. Mtis. 



Civic. Gen'ov. vii. p. 778 (1875), viii. p. 402 (1876), ix. p. 39 (1876), 



X. p. 150 (1877)_; Salvad. P. Z. S. 1878, p. 98 ; D' Albert. Sf Salvad. 



Ann. Mvs. Civic. Oenov. xiv. p. 93 (1879) ; Salvad. op. cit. xvi. 



p. 195 ; id. Orn. Papnasia etc. ii. p. 466 (1881) ; id. Hep. Voy. 



JI.M.S. ' Chalhmier; ii. Birds, p. 81 (1881). 

 Maiuatus dumonti, Lesson in Ferussac, Bull. x. p. 159 (1827). 

 Gymuops dumonti, Cuvier, Eigne Anim. i. p. 381 (1829). 

 Gracula dumonti, Waglei; Isis, 1829, p. 747 ; Miiller ^- Schl. Verh. 



Land- en Volk. p. 22 (1839-44) ; Graij, Gen. B. ii. p. 330 (1845) ; 



Bp. Consj). i. p. 422 (1850) ; Scl. Proc. Linn. Soc. ii. p. 164 (1858) ; 



Gray, P. Z. S. 1858, pp. 182, 194, 1859, p. 158 ; id. Cat. B. New 



Guinea, pp. 38, 59 (1859) ; id. P. Z. S. Is61, p. 436 ; ScJd. Xederl. 



Tijdschr. i. p. 8, pi. i. fig. 8 (1863) ; Eosenb. J.f. 0. 1864, p. 131 ; 



Finsch, Neu-Guinea, p. 174 (1865) ; Gray, Ifand-l. B. ii. p. 18, 



no. 0272 (1870) ; Emnsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. i. p. 392 



(1876). 

 Eulabes dumonti, Sharpe, Journ. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 82 (1876), p. 318 



(1877), p. 501 (1877), xiv. p. 687 (1879); Ramsay. Proc. Linn. 



Soc. N. S. W. iii. pp. 107, 279 (1878), iv. p. 99 (1879). 



Adult male. Black with green reflexions, slightly varied with a 

 purplish shade ; lower rump and upper tail-coverts white ; lesser 

 wing-coverts like the back, the median and greater coverts edged 

 with glossy green ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills black, 

 the inner secondaries glossed with green externally ; the first six 



