134 



STT7ENIDJ5. 



k I, m. Ad. sk. 



Norfolk Island.] 



Norfolk Island.] 



Norfolk Island. I 



"Norfolk Island.] 



"Norfolk Island.] 

 A^orfolk Island, June 1865. 

 Lord Howe's Island, Sept. 8, 



185.3 (/. McGiUivray). 

 Lord Howe's Island. 



Old Coll. 



Dr. a Bennett [P.]. 



Sir T. Mitchell [P.]. 



Goidd Coll. 



Zoological Society. 



J. Brenchley, Esq. [P.]. 



Gould Coll. 



E, Saunders [C.]. 



12. Aplonis crassa. 



Calornis crassa, Scl. P. Z. S. 1883, p. 56, pi. xiv. ; Sharpe in Gould's 

 B. N. Guinea, iv. pi. 15 (1883) ; Forbes, Nat. Wand. Malay Arch. 

 p. 366 (1885) ; Biittik. Notes Leyden Mus. viii. p. 65 (1886). 



Adult male (type of species). General colour above and below 

 iron-grey with a steel-green gloss, the under surface of the body 

 rather greyer ; lesser and median wing-coverts like the back, the 

 remainder of the coverts, quills, and tail-feathers black, externally 

 glossed with green : "bill, legs, and feet black; iris dark brown" 

 {H. 0. Forbes). Total length 7-2 inches, culmen 0-8, wing 4-1, 

 tail 2-y, tarsus 0-9o. 



Adult female. Ashy brown with a slight gloss of steel-green, many 

 of the dorsal feathers with a black shaft-streak ; wing-coverts and 

 quills browner ; tail-feathers black ; sides of face dull white, 

 broadly streaked with blackish ; throat and under surface of body 

 white, with distinct shaft-streaks of black, much broader on the 

 sides of the body, which are washed with dull ashy ; thighs ashy 

 brown. Total length 7"2 inches, culmen OvS, wing 3-9, tail 2-65, 

 tarsus 0"9. 



Rab. Tenimber Islands. 



a, b. c? 5 ad. 



sk. 

 c, d. S 2 ^^■ 



sk. 



liarat, Timor Laut, Aug. 1882. 



Larat, Timor Laut, Aug. 11, 

 1882 {H. O. Forbes). 



13. Aplonis atrifusca. 



H. O. Forbes, Esq. [C.]. 



(Types of species.) 

 Tweeddale Coll. 



Sturnoide geant, Hombr. Sf Jacq. Voi/. Pole Slid, pi. 15, fig. 2 



(1842-53). 

 Chlamydera sp., Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 352. 

 Laniprotornis atrifusca, Peale, U.S. Expl. Erped. p. 109, pi. 30 



(1848) ; Hartl. Arch. f. Naturg. 1852, p. 102. 

 Calornis corvina {nee Eittl), Cass. U.S. Expl. Exped p. 124 (1858). 

 Sturuoides gigas, Jacq. et Pucher. Voij. Pole Sud, iii.p. 84 (1S53). 

 Chlamydera (Sturnoides) gigas. Gray, List B. Trap. Isl. Paeif. 



Ocean, p. 25 (1859). 

 Calornis atrofusca, Gray, t. c. p. 26 (1859) ; id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 27, 



no. 6388 (1870). 

 Sturnoides atrifusca, Finsch 8f Hartl. Farm. Cmtralpohjn. p. 107 



(1807) ; Hartl. Sf Finsch, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 24 ; WMtmee, Ibis, 1875, 



p. 440; Cab. & Eeichen. J. f. 0. 1876, p. 322; Layard, P. Z. S. 



1876 p. 494. ' 



