8. AKAMIDES. 53 



p. olO (180(5); lioseiih. Nat. Tijdachi: Nederl. Inch xxix. ]). N4 



(1807) ; id. Jiein naar Zuidoostereil. p. o-'i (1807). 

 llallus intactus, .StV. 1'. Z. 6'. l«U!t, p. J JO, pi. x.. : Trigtr. Ibis, 1882, 



p. 144 ; liumsay, I'roc. Linn. 6oc. *^'. >S'. IF. vii. p. ii'-i (1882). 

 liallina iutacta, (-iriii/, Ilund-l. B. iii. p. 'j'6, no. 10-J04 (l''^71). 

 (iymnocrex pluiiibeiVL'iitris, licdvud. Ann. Mas. Geiwv. vii. p. 7'J3 

 "(l87o); UAlhnt. 6)- iSalvad. op.cit. xiv. p. 129 (1879); fSulvad. 



op. fit. xvii. p. o20 (1882) ; id. Oin. I'apuasia, iii. p. 208 (18e2) ; 



Meyer, Zeitsc/ir. (jes. Orn. i. p. 295 (1684) ; Sharpe in Gould! s 



B. Is'eiu Guinea, v. pi. 71 (l8t<6) ; ''Salrud. A(/(j. Orn. I'ajjua.si(i, iii. 



p. 190 (1891). 



Adult (type of species). General colour above oehraceous olive- 

 brown, tlie lower back, rump, upper tail-coverts, and tail black ; 

 wing-coverts ocbraceous brown like the back ; bastard-wing, primary- 

 coverts, and quills rufous, shaded with olive-brown at the tips ; 

 secondaries olive-brown, slightly rufescent in the middle, the 

 innermost secondaries like the back ; entire head and neck as far as 

 the mantle on the upper surface, and as far as the chest on the lower 

 surface, vinous chestnut, paler on the throat ; breast and remainder 

 of under surface leadui grey, blacker on the lower Hanks and under 

 tail-coverts; under wing-coveits and axillaries black, with large 

 ovate spots of white : '• bill black, greenish at the base ; feet coral- 

 red; iris led" {JJ'Allertis). Total length 13 inches, culmen 2'1, 

 wing 7''2, tail 2-8, tarsus 2"1, middle toe and claw 2. 



^^evcral specimens have the throat whitish, with chestnut tips to 

 the feathers, whereas in a few individuals the tliroat is perfectly 

 uniform. The abdomen is blackish in many specimens. Young 

 birds appear to have tlie abdomen mixed with rufous. 



JJali. Molucca Islands (Halmahera, Morotai), JS'ew Guinea, ]Jyso], 

 Aril Is-laiids, 8olomon Islands. ? Xew Ireland. 



a. Ad.sk. Morotai or Morty Island. Wallace Cull. (r\pe 



of species.) 



()-e. Ad. ; /. Juv. [Aru Islands] {J. T. Cock- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



,sk. erell). 



I/. Ad. .-k. Port Moresby, S.E. New C. llui.steiu [C.]. 



Guinea. 



h. .\d. sk. Solomon Islands (Z. Bra- P.L.SclatLT,Esq.[l'.]. 



zier). (TyP'? ''f -''• intavius.) 



b. ARAMIDES* 



lype. 



.\raraides, Pitcher. Her. ZajoI. 1845, p. 277 A. cayanea. 



Ortvgarchus, Cab. in Schonib. Jiiis. Brit. Guian. iii. 



p". 759 (1848) V. cayanea 



Range. Confined to the Xeotropical region. 



* Aram IDES pluhbeicollis. 



Araniides pliinibeicollis, Zcledon, Aiudcs Mas. 2'ac. Costa Bica, i. p. 131 

 (1887), h. p. 3 (1888). 



Hub. Costa Kica. 



This species is unkno^^n to inc. 



