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TEERONID^;. 



abdomen and vent gamboge-yellow ; under tail-coverts grey, "washed 

 and edged with gamboge-yellow ; tail above shining green, below 



dark grey : bill red at base, tip yellow ; feet ■ (?) ; iris (?), 



Total length about 16 inches, wing 9, tail 7'5, bill OS, tarsus P12. 



Female. Like the male, only smaller. 



Specimens from N. Queensland are smaller. 



Hub. Eastern Australia, from Rockingham Bay to N. S. Wales. 



a. Ad. sk. Australia. Linn. Soc. Coll. (Type 



of species.) 



b, c. Ad. st. et Australia. Purchased, 

 sk. 



//. Ad. sk. Australia. A. Cunningham, Esq. 



[P.] 



e. Ad. sk. Australia. Gould Coll. 



/. Ad. sk. Australia. H. Seebohm, Esq. [P.]. 



g, h. Ad. sk. S.E. Australia (Cock- Salvin-G adman Coll. 



erell $• Thorpe), 



i. Ad. sk. Queensland. W.YVestgartk,Esq.[P ]. 



k. Ad. sk. Clarence River. Tweeddale Coll. 



/. Ad. sk. N.E. Quensland. Sydney Museum [P.]. 



3. Megaloprepia assimilis. 



Carpophaga assimilis, Gould, P. Z. S. 1850, p. 201 (Cape York) ; Bp. 



Consp. Av. ii. p. 40 (1854) ; Gould, B. Austr. Suppl. pi. 67 (pt. ii., 



1855) ; G. R. Gr. List Spec. B. Brit. Mus. Columbje, p. 21 (1856) ; 



Gieb. Thes. Orn. i. p. 584 (1872) ; Forbes, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 126; 



Bams. Ibis, 1887, p. 34o. 

 Me°aloprepiapuella (part.), Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 40 (1854); id. Compt. 



Rend, xxxix. p. 1077 (1854) ; id. Coup d'ceil Ordr. Pig. p. 18 



(1855). 

 Carpophaga puella, Cass, (nee Less.) Pr. Ac. Nat. Sc. Phi/ad. 1854, 



p. 231. 

 ? Megaloprepia assimilis, Bp. Compt. Rend. Ix. p. 217, n. — (?) (Coup 



d'ceil Ordr. Pig. p. 55, n. — ?) (1855), xli. p. 650 (1855), xliii. 



p. 830 (1856) ; Rchnb. Taub. i. p. 102, n. 239 (1862), ii. p. 203, 



Nov. Taf. iv. ff. 42, 43 (1862); G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 231, 



n. 9218 (1870); Sousa, Mus. Nac. Lisb. Columbfe, p. 11 (1873); 



Rams. P. Z. S. 1876, p. 115; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. ix. 



p. 199 (1876) ; Rams. Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. ii. p. 195, n. 217 



(1878) ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. xii. p. 427 (1878) ; id. P. Z. S. 



1879, p. 67, 68; Rams. Ibis, 1882, p. 345; North, Pr. Linn. Soc. 



N.S. W. (2) ii. p. 410 (1887); id. Descr. Cat. Nests and Eggs Austr. 



B. p. 270 (1889) ; Tristr. Cat. Coll. B. p. 43 (1889). 

 Ptilopus assimilis, Schleg. Mus. P.-B. Colunibse, p. 38 (1873); Elliot, 



P. Z. S. 1878, p. 574. 

 Ptilinopus (Megaloprepia) assimilis, Rams. Tab. List, p. 18, n. 530 a 



(1888). 



Similar to M. magnijiea, but smaller. Total length about 

 14 inches, wing 7"5. 



Hub. Cape York Peninsula, and as far south as neighbourhood of 

 Rockingham Bay. 



