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5. EULABEORNIS. 

 Euliibjornis, Guidd, P. Z. S. 181 1, p. r,r, E, ca^taneiventris. 



Itanr/f. Northern Australia a lid the Aru Islands: Solomon Islands; 

 Fiji Islands. 



Kei/ to the Species. 



a. liider wing-coverts imiform vinous like the 



breast, without spots ; quills uniform below, ca-staneiventris. p. 49. 



b. Under wing-coverts black, barred with white. 



a. Quills barred witli chestnut and black. . . . paci/npterus, p. 50. 

 d'. Quills black, with few white spots or bars . iCDndfwdi, p. 50. 



1. Eulabeornis castaneiventris. 



Eulabeornis castaneiventris, Gmld, P. Z. S. 1844, p. 5G (N. Australia) ; 

 id. B. Austr. vi. pi. 78 (1844) ; Grai/, Gen. B. iii. p. 596 (184G) • 

 Reichenb. Handh., Fidiaii: Taf. cxxiii. h-s. li'l 1-14 (1852) ; Bp. 

 C. It. xliii. p. (iOU (185tJ) ; Gray, P. Z. S. lf^58, pp. 198, 198 (Aru 

 Lilands) ; id. Cat. B. New Guiiua, pp. 52, 63 (1859) ; id. P. Z. S. 

 1861, p. 438 (Louisiade Isl.) : Bosetid. Xat. rijdschi: Nederl. Ltd. 

 XXV. p. 255 (1863) : id. J.f. 0. 1864, p. i'8:.> (New Guinea) : Pln-^ch, 

 Neu-Gidnea, p. 181 (1865) ; Guuld, Ihuidb. B. Amtr. ii. p. 338 

 (1865); Boseiib. Reis 7iaar Zuidou.itcn'il. p. 53 (1867) ; Grai/, 

 Hand-l. B. iii. p. 56, no. 10309 (1871 ) ; liamsaij, Proc. Litiu. Soc. 

 N.S. W. i^p. 193 (1876), ii. p. 199 (1877) ; Bosenh. Malay. Arch. 

 p. 373 (1878-79: Aru); Meyer, J'er/i. z.-b. Geiellsch. irVew, xxiii. 

 p. 773 (1873) ; Salcad. Ann. Mus. Genov. xviii. p. .320 (1882) ; id. 

 Oni. Pajmasia etc. iii. p. 2i>7 (1882) : Meyer, Zeitschr. y^-s. Orn. i. 

 p. 294, pi. 17. «tr. 3 (1884: egrg) ; Bamsay, Tab. List Ait.itr. B. 

 p. 21 (1888) ; Salcad. Ayy. Orn. P.ipiiasia, iii. p. 196 (1891). 



Rallina castaneiventris, Sc/d. A'. T. B. iii. p. .349 (1866). 



Adidt female. General colour above dark ochracoous brown, with 

 somewhat of a rufous tinge on the lower back, rump, and upper tail- 

 coverts; wing-coverts like the back: i)rimarj--coverts and quills 

 reddish brown, somewhat olivaceous externally ; tail-feathers dull 

 reddish brown, more chestnut below ; crown of head and entire 

 sides of face clear slaty grey; chin whitish, shading into pale vinous 

 on the throat, which passes into vinous chestnut on the lower throat, 

 fore neck, and rest of under surface ; the abdomen and vent some- 

 what i)aler vinous ; thighs greyish externally ; under tail-coverts, as 

 ■well as the under wiug-coverts and axillaries, deep chestnut: "bill 

 yellow at tho base, horn-coloured at the tip ; legs and feet brown "' 

 (./. Gould). Total length 17 inches, culmen 2-2, wing S-5, tail 4-7, 

 tarsus 2-7o, middle toe and claw 27. 



llah. North Australia and the Aru Islands. 



a. Ad. sk. Aru I.slauds. ^\■allace Coll. 



6-1. Ad. sk. [Aru Islands] (/. T. Cockerell). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



