140 STITKNlDiE. 



coverts black, edged with glossy green ; under wing-coverts and 

 axillaries black, with bluish-green margins ; quills below black, 

 browner along the inner edge ; bill and feet black ; " iris cinnabar " 

 (0. Finsch). Total length 9-2 inches, culmeu 0*75, wing 4-35, tail 4-1, 

 tarsus 0*85. 



Adnlt female. Like tho male. " Iris blood-red " (0. Finscli). 

 Total length 9-2 inches, culmcn 0'8, wing 4"3, tail 4*2, tarsus 0-9. 



Australian specimens differ a good deal in the amount of purplish 

 gloss on the sides of the body, and some of them have even a faint 

 gloss of purple on the throat. Specimens from the Papuan Islands 

 arc generally remarkable for their deep green colour underneath, and 

 for the absence of purplish gloss on the sides of the body. Some, 

 however, are absolutely identical with Australian examples, and I 

 do not see how more than one form can be recognized, excepting, of 

 course, C. c/ularis, which is a very well-marked species, and 0. minor 

 and 0. purpureiceps, which axe also distinct. 



Young. Similar to the adult above, but with less metallic gloss ; 

 cheeks and under surface of body white, streaked with greenish 

 black on the lower throat, fore neck, sides of body, flanks, and 

 under tail-coverts. 



Dr. Finsch has no doubt, from his own personal observations, that 

 the specimens with white under surfaces are by no means always 

 young birds, as they breed in this dress, and gain the full plumage 

 by a change of feather, and by the wearing away of the edges them- 

 selves, whence they derive the small lance-shaped form of streak on 

 the underparts. 



Hah. Northern Australia, New Guinea, and Papuan Islands from 

 the Solomons to the Aru group, as well as the Moluccas. 



Capt. Stanley [P.]. 



J. McGillivray [C.]. 



J. McGillivray [0.]. 

 (Types of C. pur/nirascens.) 

 Gould Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Tweeddale Coll. 



Tweeddale Coll. 



P. L. Sclater, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 Sir E. Belcher [P.]. 

 (Type of C. nitida.) 

 Rev. G. Brown [C.]. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 



C. Ilunstein [C.]. 

 Wallace Coll. 

 (Types of C. viridcscens.) 

 Gould Coll. 



