9. MACaOPTEEYX. 517 



forehead over the eyes, chin and long moustache-stripes, and inner- 

 most secondaries pure white ; lower abdomen, vent, and under tail- 

 coverts white, more or less suffused with grey ; small chestnut spots 

 on the tips of the ear-coverts. Total length about 12-13 inches, 

 wing 8"8, tail 7. 



Adult female. Without the chestnut spot on the ear-coverts. 



Young. "With light cinnamon-rufous edges to the feathers of the 

 upper parts, with broad subterminal bars of the same colour to the 

 white feathers of the under surface. Before the adult plumage is 

 assumed, the white feathers seem to become brownish grey and the 

 reddish bars on them much broader. The change no doubt takes 

 place at a very early age. 



Hah. Papuasia from Gilolo and Burn in the "West to the Salomon 

 and Duke of York Islands iu the East. 



«. Pull. sk. [Papuasia.] Gould Coll. 



b. c? ad. sk. Guebeh, Feb. 22 (Zeyf/ew ilfi<s.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



c. rfad.sk. GWolo (A. R. Wallace). Gould Coll. 



d. c. cf ad. sk. Batcbiau. "V\'a]lace Coll. 

 /. <S ad. -, g. $ Buru {A. R. Wallace). Tweeddale Coll. 



ad. sk. 



h. Imm. sk. Buru. "Wallace Coll. 



i. S ad. sk. Mysol {A. R. Wallace). Gould Coll. 



k. 2 ad. ; /, m. Ceram. "Wallace Coll. 



Pull. sk. 



n. 2 ad. sk. Amboina, May 12 {Leyden Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Mvs.). 



o-r. (S 2 ad. sk. .\mboina. 



s-u. S 2 ad. sk. Aru Islands. 



V. 2 ad. sk. Pt. Moresby, S.E. New Broadbent CoU. 



Guinea. 



w. 1mm. sk. New Britain, March. Rev. G. Browu [C.]. 



X. (S ad, sk. Duke of York I.^land. Rev. G. Brown lC.J. 



y. cS ad. sk. New Ireland (Rev. G. Brown). Tweeddale Coll. 



5. Macropteryx comata. 



Cjiiselus comatus, Temtn. PI. Chi. 268 (1824) (Suniati-a). 



Dendrochelidon comatus (-a), Boie, Isis, 1844, p. 166 ; Rj). Conxp. i. 

 p. 66 (18.j0) ; Goidd, B. Asia, i. pi. 25 (1859) ; Cab. 4- Heine, 

 Mvs. Heifi. iii. p. 82 (1860) ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1865, p. 617 ; id. J.f. O. 

 1867, p. 141 ; Gray, Hand-l. i. p. 65 (1869) ; Salvad. Ucc. Bui-neo, 

 p. 123 (1874) ; Htime, Stray Feath. iii. p. 318 (1875) ; id. ibid. viii. 

 p. 47 (Malay Penius.) (1879) ; Sharpe, Rns, 1878, p. 414 (Borneo) ; 

 id. ibid. 1879, p. 250 ; Hume S,- Davison, Stray Feath. vi. p. 51 

 (Tenasserim) (1878); Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 334 (Labuan, 

 nest) ; Kelham, Ibis, 1881, p. 376 (Malacca). 



Macropteryx comatus, Swains. Class. B. ii. p. 340 (1837) ; Blyth, 

 Cat. B.' Mas. As. Soc. p. 87(1849); ll'alden, Trans. Zool. Soc. 

 ix. p. 1.58 (Philippines) (1875): Shai-pe, Ibis, 1876, p. 33; id. 

 Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, i. p. 319 (Philippines) (1877) ; Tweedd. 

 P. Z. S. 1877, p. 823 (Mindanao) ; Sah. Cat. Sfrickl. Coll. p. 373 

 (1882) ; Oates, B. Burmah, ii. p. 14 (1883) ; Harfert, J.f. O. 1889, 

 p. 401 (Perak) ; id. J.f. O. 1891, p. 295 (Mindoro). 



Adult male. Lores deep black ; forehead, crown, nape, throat, 

 sides of head, upper and under wing-coverts metallic blue ; a few 



