2. CAKrniBis. H 



Hub. Nearly the whole of Australia; New Guinea; Salawati ; 

 Waigiou ; Ceram. 



a. Ad. sk. Australia. Old Coll. 



6. Ad. sk. Australia. Sir T. Mitchell [P.]. 



c. Ad. sk. Australia. Purchased. 



d. Ad. sk. New South Wales. Gould Coll. 



e. Ad. sk. New South Wales. Hume Coll. 



/. Ad. sk. Queensland. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



ff. (S ad.sk. N.VV. Australia (T. H. Capt. Bowyer Bower 



Bowyer Bower). [^^-i- 



h. Ad. sk. N. Ceram. Wallace Coll. 



2. CARPHIBIS. 



Type. 



Carphibis, Reichenb. Av. Sijst. Nat. p. xiv (1852) C. spnucoUis. 



Range. Confined to Australia, where it is widely distributed. 



1. Carphibis spinicoUis. 



Ibis spiuicollis, Jameson, Edinb. New Phil. Journ. xix.p.213 (1835) ; 



Jard. ^- Mhj, Ill.Orn. [N.S.]pl. 17 (18-37) ; Schl.Mus. Pays-Bas, 



Ibis, p. 12 (1863) ; Reichen. J.f. O. 1877, p. 160. 

 Ibis lameUicollis, Lafr. Mag. de Zool. 1836, p. 57. 

 Geronticus spinicollis, Gray, List Grail. Brit. Mus. p. 91 (1844) ; 



id. Gen. B. iii. p. 560 (1847) ; Gould, B. Austr. vi. pi. 45 (1848) ; 



Ramsay, P. Z. S. 1867, p. ('00 (Clarence River) ; Gray, Hajid-l. 



B. iii. p. 39, no. 10220 (1871) ; Ra^nsay, Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. 



(2) ii. p. 172 (1887 : Derby) ; id. Tab. List Anstr. B. p. 20 (1888) ; 



North, Nests ^ Eqgs Austr. B. p. 312 (1889) ; Co.x ^ Hamilton, 



Pr.Linn. Soc. N.'S. IF. (2) iv. p. 420 (1890: Mudgee Distr.). 

 Carphibis spinicollis, Reichenb. Grail. Taf. Ixxxii. figs. 1109-10 



(1848) ; Bonap. Consp. ii. p. 152 (1855) ; id. C. R. xl. p. 724 (1855) ; 



Gould, Handb. B. Austr. ii. p. 282 (1865); Ramsay, Ibis, 1866, 



p. 335 (Port Denison) ; id. P. Z. S. 1877, p. 340 (Lower Herbert 



E.) ; Elliot, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 491 ; North, Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. 



(2) i. p. 1061 (1887 : Hilston, N. S. W. : breeding). 



Adult male. General colour above black, glossed with different 

 colours, steel-green on the upper back and mantle and purplish on 

 the scapulars and wings, the whole of the upper parts barred 

 across with black ; the lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts 

 black, with scarcely any gloss ; the long upper tail-coverts and tail- 

 feathers pure white ; wing-coverts and quills black, externally 

 barred with black and bronzy purple ; primaries black, with a 

 steel-green shade externally ; crown of head and fore part of throat 

 bare, surrounded by a ruff of white feathers, which extends almost 

 to the nape from the middle of the hind-neck, descends the sides of 

 the latter and joins on the fore-neck ; lower hind-neck dusky 

 blackish, with scarcely any gloss ; centre of fore-neck white, %vith 

 long straw-coloured plumes on each side ; the sides of the neck and 

 sides of the chest black, with a beautiful green and purplish gloss, 

 the latter overspreading the mantle ; breast and abdomen, as well 

 as the axillaries, pure white ; under wing-covorts and quill-lining 



