4. ORTHOBHAMPHT/S. 23 



1>. 275 (Port Darwin); E. L. $ E. L. C. Layard, Ibl*. 1878, 

 p. 262 (New Caledonia) ; Rosenb. Mala;/. Archip. pp. 277, 373, 

 396 (Mysol), p. 503 (1878-79); Hume' $ Davison, Str. E. vi. 

 p. 4.V.) "(1878: Mergui Is.); Hume, Str. E. viii. pp. 112, 384 

 (1879); Finsch, P. Z. 5.1879, pp. 9,14 (Duke of York Isl.) ; -E.Z. 

 .V S L. C. Layard, Ibis, 1881, p. 186 (Huon Is., New Caledonia) ; 

 Finsch, t. c. p. 540 (New Britain) ; Scl. Voy. ' Challenger,' ii. p. 38 

 (1881 : Pigeon Is.) ; Tristr. P. Z. S. 1881, p. 996 (Louisiades) ; id. 

 Ibis, 1 882, pp. 140, 144 (Solomon Is.) ; E. L. Sf E. L. C. Layard, t. c. 

 pp. 532, 544 (Huon Is., breeding) ; Oates, Handb. B. Brit. Burm.M. 

 p. 351 (1883) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1888, p. 203 (Palawan) ; Grant, P. Z. S. 

 1888, p. 201 (Guadalcanal') ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. B. p. 19 

 (1888); Whitehead, Ibis, 1890, p. 59 (Palawan); Sharpe, t. c. 

 pp. 141, 284 (Abai, N. Borneo) ; Oates, ed. Hume's Nests § Eggs 

 Ind. B. iii. p. 334 (1890) ; I)e Vis, Ann. Rep. Brit. New Chan. 

 p. 02 (1890) ; id. Colon. Papers, no. 103, p. 116 (1890) ; id. Ibis, 

 L891, p. 41 (Fergusson Is.); Walker, R)is, 1892, p. 257 (Adele 

 Is., N.W. Australia) ; Tristr. t. c. p. 299 (Solomon Is.). 



CEdicnemua giganteus, G ray, Gen. B. iii. p. 535 (1844). 



CEdicnem.ua major, Brehm, teste Gray, Hand-l. B. iii. p. 10, no. 9948 

 (1871). 



Orthorhamphus magnirostris, Salvad. Ucc. Bom. p. 312 (1874: 

 Borneo); Hume, Str. F. v. p. 121 (1877: critic.) ; Salvad. Ann. 

 Mus. Genov. ix. p. 47 (1876) ; id. op. cit. xiv. p. 605 (1879) ; 

 D'Alb. Nuooa Guin. p. 585 (1880) ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Genov. 

 xviii. p. 323 (1882) ; Salvad. Orn. Pupuasia etc. iii. p. 290 

 (1882); Scl. P. Z. S. 1883, p. 52, 195, 200 (Kirimoen; Larut; 

 Timor-laut) ; Forbes, P. Z. S. 1884, p. 433 ; Nehrk. J.fO. 1885, 

 p. 35 (Waigiou) ; Guillem, P. Z. S. 1885, p. 664 (Mysol) ; Meyer, 

 Zeitsehr. ges. Orn. iii. p. 38 (1886: J obi) ; Heine ty Reichen. 

 Nomencl. Mus. Hein. Orn. p. 333 (1890) ; Salvad. Aggiunte Orn. 

 Pap. iii. p. 198 (1891). 



yEsacus magnirostris, Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. A 7 . S. W. vii. p. 40 

 (1860: Solomon Is.); Sharpe, Rep. Zool. Coll. Voy. H.M.S. 

 ' Alert; p. 26 (1884). 



Adult. General colour above ashy brown, with dusky shaft-lines 

 to the feathers ; scapulars like the back ; upper tail-coverts ashy 

 liko the back, but freckled and barred with dusky brown ; lesser 

 wing-coverts dark brown, the lower ones blackish at the ends 

 and forming a broad band across the wing, followed by another 

 band of white, formed by the median coverts, which are grey at 

 the tips, with a broad white band across the middle followed by 

 another bar of dusky blackish ; greater coverts entirely grey, fading 

 off into whitish at the ends; bastard-wing and primary-coverts 

 blackish, the smaller primary-coverts white like the quills they 

 cover ; primaries brownish black with white along the inner web, 

 extending across the outer web of the first two ; inner primaries 

 pure white ; the secondaries dark brown, externally grey, witli white 

 bases and small white tips, also white along the inner webs, on the 

 inner ones the white confined to the inner wob, the long inner- 

 most secondaries ashy brown like the back; tail-feathers ashy 

 brown, with a black band at the end, before which is a broad band 

 of white, precedod by a narrow black band, the two centre feathers 



