126 STURNIDiE. 



Key to the Sj^>edes. 



a. No rufous on tho quills. 



a'. Abdomeu black with a steel-greeu gloss, as 

 also the under tail-coverts ; entire plumage 

 above and below glossy greenish or purplish 

 black. 

 a". Greenish gloss bright on the plumage. 



a'". Belly blacker than the throat, and with- | striata, p. 127. 



out the green gloss of the latter ) atronitens, p. 128. 



h'" , Belly with green gloss, like the throat 



and breast cantoroides, p. 128. 



h" . With scarcely any greenish gloss feadensis, p. 120. 



b' . Abdomen paler, being brown, grey, or whitish, 

 but never black. 

 c". Outer secondaries edged with whitish. 

 c" . Under surface streaked with white. 

 «'. Under tail-coverts whitish, or whitish 

 with pale brown centres. 

 a\ Head glossed with steel-green or 

 pvirplish green, 

 a^. Larger : throat ashy, scarcely 

 lighter than the breast ; white 

 streaks on underparts scarcely 

 perceptible ; culmen 085 inch . . tabuensis, p. 130. 

 UK Smaller : throat whitish, contrast- 

 ing with brown breast, which is 

 broadly streaked with white ; 



culmen 0'G5 inch brevirostris, p. 1.30. 



¥. Head glossed with bronzy green, but ( vitiensis, p. 131. 



almost as brown as the back ] fortmue, p. 1;52. 



6'. Under tail-coverts brown, lined with 

 white shaft-streaks like the breast; 



head brown like the back bnumcscens, p. 132. 



d!". No streaks on the under surface ; rump 

 and upper tail-coverts with whitish 



margins cinerascens, p. 133. 



d!' . No white edges to the outer secondaries ; 

 no streaks on the underparts. 

 e'". Under tail-coverts grey or whitish, con- 

 trasting more or less with the breast, 

 c'. Throat and breast greyish, but not 

 glossed with green like the head, 

 c'. Breast washed with pale brown; 



under tail-coverts whitish fusca $ , p. 133. 



d'^. Breast ashy grey ; under tail-coverts 



also ashy, not whitish striata 5 ; P- 128. 



fZ'. Throat and breast glossed with green 



like the head fusca S , p. 133. 



/■'". Under tail-coverts iron-grey like the 



rest of the body a-assa, p. 134. 



(/'". Under tail-coverts brown or blackish, like 

 the rest of the under surface. 



