15. MELANOI'YKEHUS. 



113 



cheeks extended over the base of the bill, which is not bare as in 

 M. diimoiiti. The abdomen is not of so brilliant a yellow as in the 

 latter species, and the lower abdomen is white : " bill and bare 

 space round ej'c clear orange-yellow, as also the bare skin angle ; 

 feet duller orange-yellow ; iris fiery orange " (Finsch). Total length 

 lU-5 inches, culmen 1-35, wing 6-5, tail 8-5, tarsus 1'5. 



The sexes are alike in colour, according to Dr. Finsch. 



Ilab. Solomon Islands, New Britain, New Ireland, and New 

 Hanover. 



a. Ad. sk. Solomon Islands. 



b. Ad. sk. Elizabeth Island, Solomons, 



Sept. 10, I860 (J. Brenchley). 



c. Ad. sk. Fauro Island, Solomons. 



d. Ad. sk. New Ireland. 



e-(/. Ad. sk. New Ireland {G. Brown). 



P. L. Sclater, Esq. [P.]. 



(Type of species.) 

 Tweeddale Coll. 



C. M. Woodford, Esq. 



_[C.]. 

 Sir C. Lemon [P.]. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 



15. MELANOPYRRHUS. 



Melauopyrrhus, Up. C. R. xxxvii. p. 831 (1853) 



Type. 

 M. anais. 



Head of Mclanopyrrhus anais. 

 llanqe. Confined to New Guinea and Salawati. 



Key to the Sjjecies. 



a. Head black ; round the neck a broad yellow collar. . iinais, p. 113. 



b. Head golden yellow like the hind neck, generally 



with a black nape-spot orientulis, p. 114. 



1. Melanopyrrhus anais. 



Sericulus anais, Less. Hev. Zool. 1854, p. 44 ; Bp. Co7isp. i. p. 349 

 (I80O); id. C. B. xxxvii. p. 831 (1853); Scl. P. Z. S. 1857, 

 p. 6 ; Gray, P. Z. S. 1858, p. 192, 1861, p. 434 ; Rosenb. Nat. 

 Tijdschr. kederl. Ind. xxv. p. 234 (1863); id. J. f. O. 1864, 

 p. 121. 



Oriolus ? anais, Grcnj, Gen. B., App. p. ii (1849) ; id. Cat. B. Ke2V 

 Guinea, pp. 26, 57 (1859). 



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