G. TRlCnOLIMXAS. 51 



sooty brown, with a distinct shade of dark slaty grey on the eye- 

 brow ; lores and feathers below the eye and ear-coverts black ; 

 cheeks also black, with a slaty-grey shade along the malar line ; 

 chin whitish, the throat becoming ashy black ; remainder of under 

 .surface of body black, with a slight ashy sliade on the breast ; the 

 sides of the body washed with chocolate-brown ; under wing-covcrts 

 black, barred or sjjotted with white ; axillaries black : " bill l)lack ; 

 feet grey : iris red" (f. M. Woodford). Total length 14"5 inches, 

 culmen iMj, wing G-8, tail 2-8, tarsus 2-35, middle toe and claw 2-2. 

 ll(d}. Solomon Islands. 



«. Inira. sk. Aola, Guadalcanal'. C. il. Woodford, Esq. [C.]. 



(Type of species.) 



6. TEICHOLIMNAS. 



Type. 



Tricholimnas, Sharpe, Bull. Brit. Oni. Club, no. v. 



(Jan. 1893, p. xxviii) T. lafresnayanus. 



llange. Confined to Xew Caledonia. 



1. Tricholimnas lafresnayanus. 



tialliralliis lafresnayanuj:, Verr. et Des Murs, JRev. et May. de 



Zool. 1800, p. 437; Joumi, Mem. Soc. Cherb. ix. p. 246 (ltt(j3); 



Finsch, J. f. 0. 1873, p. 40.3 ; Marie, Acten -!>'. L. Bold, xx vii. p. 328 



(1870) ; id. Ibi.'i, 1877, p. 3(J3. 

 Kulabeornis lafre.^nayauus, Gratj, Hand-t. B. iii. p. o(^, no. 10370 



(1871): id. Cruise of ' Cura(^ua,' pi. xxi. (1873); E. L. if L. C. 



Latjard, Ibi.", 188:?, p. 53.J (New Caledonia); Wiylesic. Ablumdl. 



k. Zool. Mils. Dresden, no. vi. p. CO (1801 ). 

 Ocydronuis lafresnayanus, O'iele/, Thes. Oiii. ii. p, 2-30 (1875); 



Buller, Tr. X. Z. 'imt. x. p. 210 (1877). 



Adult male. General colour above brown, with a slight shade of 

 olive on the scapulars ; lower back, rump, upper tail-coverts, and 

 tail dusk)- blackish, washed with dull rufous brown ; wing-coverts 

 like the back ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills blackish, 

 externally rufous brown, which colour is much more distinct on tl<o 

 secondaries ; crown of head for the most part dusky ashy, especially 

 on the forehead and sides of the crown ; nape decidedly browner, 

 and gradually verging into dark chocolate on the hind neck ; lores 

 duskj-, with a narrow supraloral streak of isabelline; car-coverts 

 brown ; cheeks and throat light asliy grey ; sides of neck brown ; 

 rest of under surface of body dark slaty grey, washed with brown on 

 the fore neck, chest, and sides of body ; tianks dark chocolate- 

 brown ; thighs slaty grey : under tail-coverts chocolate-brown ; 

 under wing-coverts and axillaries black, barred across with white ; 

 tjuills below blackish ; secondaries rufesceut on the lower surface. 

 Tot;U length 17 inches, culmen 2-5, wing 8, tail 4-2, tarsus 2'4, 

 middle toe and claw 2"5. 



Adult female. Similar to the male in colour, but smaller, the bill 

 being conspicuously so. Total length 14".j inches, culmen 1*9, 

 wing ~-o, tail 4, tarsus 2-35, middle toe and claw 2"35. 



