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Macropvgia timorlaoensis, Mei/er, Zeitschr. f. yes. Orn. 1884, p. 214 

 (Timor Laut) ; Biittik. Not. Leyd. Mus. viii.p. 46 (1886); Wardl. 

 Hums. Ibis, 1890, p. 240; Salvad. Mem, R. Ac. Sc. Tor. (2) xlii. 

 p. 61 (Af/y. Orn. Pap. e Mol. p. 187) (1891). 



Macropvgia, sp., Tristr. Cat. Coll. B. p. 39 (Timor Laut) (1889). 



Ad alt male. Upper part of the head dark brown, the feathers tipped 

 with whitish buff or rufous ; nape and mantle barred with whitish 

 buff and brown or dark metallic green ; rest of the upper surface pale 

 hair-brown, freckled with whitish buff; wing-coverts, secondaries, and 

 tertiaries darker, broadly tipped with rufous ; beneath buff, broadly 

 barred with dark brown, "which has metallic-purple reflections on 

 the breast" (W. R.) ; lower tail-coverts rufous, unbarred except at 

 the base ; under wing-coverts and inner edges of the quills bright 

 cinnamon-rufous ; tail pale hair-brown, two outer feathers only, as 

 in M. magna and M. macassariensis, with a dark baud, not very 

 conspicuous, towards the tip of the inner web, and extending towards 

 the base : " irides pale blue, with an outer rim of pink ; bill cor- 

 neous ; legs and feet purple " (Forbes). Total length about 15 - 5 

 inches, wing 7*6, tail 8, bill 075, tarsus 0-98. 



Female. According to Major "Wardlaw Ilamsay, similar to the 

 male, but none of the females seen by me have any metallic green 

 on the nape and mantle, or metallic-purple reflections on the breast. 



A female, apparently not fully adult, has the under tail-coverts 

 barred. 



Hob. Timor Laut. 



a, b. $ a d- sk. Larat, Timor Laut, Aug., H. O. Forbes, Esq. 



Sept. [C.]. 



c. c? ad. sk. Larat, Timor Laut, Sept. Salviu-Godman Coll. 



(IT. 0. Forbes). 



d. 5 iinm. sk. Larat, Timor Laut, Sept. Tweeddale Coll. 



(H. O. Forbes). 



6. Macropygia macassariensis. 



Macropvgia aiuboinensis, var. macassariensis, Wall. Ibis, 1865, p. 389 

 (.Macassar, Celebes) ; id. J. f. O. 1866, p. 240; G. R. Gr. Hand- 

 list, ii. p. 237, n. 9292 (1870) ; Lata, J.f. O. 1877, p. 379. 



Macropvgia macassariensis, Wald. Tr. Zool. Soc. viii. p. 8fi '1872 s * ; 

 Tweedd. Orn. Works, p. 185 (1881) ; Wardl. Rams. Ibis, 1890, 

 p. 240. 



Macropvgia amboinensis, var. albicapilla, Briiyyem. Abh. not. Ver. 

 Brem. v. p. 86 (part.) (1876). 



Macropygia albicapilla, part., Meyer, Ibis, 1879, p. 137 ; ? Guillcm. 

 P. Z. S. 1885, p. 558 (specim. e,f); Bias. Zeitschr. yes. Orn. iii. 

 pp. 133, 179 (1886). 



Adult male. Above mouse-brown, minutely freckled with yel- 

 lowish buff on the nape and mantle ; wings brown, the upper wing- 

 coverts with traces of rufous tips ; sides of the head mouse-brown 

 throat paler ; remainder of the lower surface buff, more whitish on the 

 breast, barred with brown even on the under tail-coverts ; innermost 



