112 STUENIDJE. 



long primaries marked with a white patch, the first only on the inner 

 web and the sixth only on the outer one ; tail black ; centre of 

 crown and neck all round greenish black, the feathers being loose 

 and bristly ; sides of crown and entire region of the eye and greater 

 part of auricular region bare, the texture of the skin being bristly ; 

 lores black, as well as a broad line of feathers running to the sides 

 of the neck and occupying the lower ear-coverts ; fore part of cheeks 

 bare ; hinder cheeks and sides of neck greenish bkick, with a few 

 liair-like white plumelets ; chin and sides of upper throat bare ; 

 centre of throat and fore neck greenish black, slightly glossed 

 witii purple ; breast, sides of body, flanks, and thighs black glossed 

 with green, the feathers being edged with the latter colour ; entire 

 abdomen bright yellow ; under tail-coverts white ; axillaries and 

 under wing-coverts black with glossy green edges ; quills black 

 below, with a white patch on the primaries : " bill, feet, and eyes 

 jclloyv " (D'Albertis). Total length 10 inches, culmeu I'l, wing 6, 

 tail 2"95, tarsus 1"4. 



Adult female. Similar to the male. Total length 10 inches, 

 culmen 1*25, wing 5"9, tail 2-7, tarsus 1*45. 



Young. Differ from the adult in wanting the papillae on the bare 

 part of the face and in having the abdomen paler yellow. 



Hah. New Guinea, Salawatti, Waigiou, and Aru Islands. 



a. 2 ad. sk. Waigiou. Wallace Coll. 



b-d. S $ ad. sk. Salawati, July, Aug. 1868 



( Von Rosenberg), 

 e. S ad. ; f. Ad. sk. Dorey. Wallace Coll. 



f/. Ad. sk. Dorev (A. B. Wallace). Gould Coll. 



'k, i. S ? fid. sk. Am Islands. Voy. of II.M.S. 



' Challenger.' 

 k, I. d 2 'I*!- ; '"• ^^^^ Islands. Wallace CoU. 



Ad. sk. 

 n. Ad. sk. Port Moresby. Rev. S. McFarlane 



[P.]. 

 0. Ad. sk. Port Moresby. K. Broadbent [C.]. 



2. Mino kreffti. 



Gracula kreflEti, Scl. P. Z. S. 186!), p. 120, pi. ix. ; Brazier, P. Z. S. 



1870, p. 551 ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1877, p. 104, 1878, p. 289 ; Finsc/i, 



P. Z. S. 1879, p. 17 ; Layard, Ibis, 1880, p. 295 ; FimcJi, Ibis, 



1881, p. 5.37; Tristr. Ibh, 18s2, p. 142, 

 Edabes krelfti, Graij, Iland-l. B. ii. p. 18, no. 6273 (1870). 

 Gracula guathophila, Cab. ^'- Peichen. Sitz. Gesellsch. nat. Ireunde 



zu Berlin, 1876, p. 72 ; iid. J. f. O. 1876, p. 322 ; Salvad. P. Z. S. 



1877, p. 19.5. ■ 

 Eulabes (Gracula) kretfti, Ramsaij, Proc. Linn. Soc. K. S. W. iv. p. 70 



(1879). 

 Mino kreffti, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. xvi. p. 190 (1880) ; 



id. Orn. Papuasia S,-c. ii. p. 469 (1881); Finsch, Vijg. der Siid-See, 



p. 14 (1884) ; Grant, P. Z. S. 1888, p. 198. 



Adult. Similar to M. dumonti, but rather larger ; the line of 

 feathers on the throat rounded anteriorly, and the feathers of the 



