352 colttmbid^. 



tail-coverts, which are uniform with no bars ; lower part of the 

 fore neck and breast with narrow black bars, two or three on each 

 feather; upper wing-coverts brown, edged with cinnamon; pri- 

 mary-coverts and primaries black, the latter scarcely edged with 

 rufous on the inner web beneath ; under wing-coverts and axillaries 

 cinnamon ; tail rufous brown, three outer pairs of rectrices with the 

 basal part and tips more rufous, and with a subapical black band ex- 

 tending towards the base on the inner web : " iris white-grey, with 

 an outer rim pink ; bill black ; feet red " ( Beccarl). Total length 

 about 14 '5 inches, wing 6-6 to 7"1, tail 8 to 9, bill 0-6, tarsus i)-Ho. 



In one specimen from Amboyna, marked male, the under surface 

 is of a nearly uniform cinnamon rufous brown, barred, but without 

 white tips to the pectoral feathers. 



Female. Upper part of the head bright cinnamon ; nape and 

 mantle buffy, barred with dark almost black metallic green ; rest of 

 the upper parts as in the male dark brown-chestnut, only the rump 

 and upper tail-coverts brighter ; beneath more rufous than in the 

 male, and more boldly barred on the breast. 



Yomuj birds are like the female, but the feathers of the head are 

 dark brown at the base and only tipped with chestnut ; breast and 

 throat-feathers blackish brown tipped with chestnut, giving a 

 mottled appearance. 



Hah. Amboyna, Ceram, and Bouru. 



a. $ ad. sk. Indian Archipelago. Capt. Chambers [P.]. 



b. S ad- sk. Amboyna. Wallace Coll. 



c. r$ ad. sk. Amboyna {Wallace). Seehohm Coll. 



d. Imm. sk. Amboyna ( Wallace). Gould Coll. 

 e,f.S9- ao - sk- Amboyna. ' Challenger' Exped. 

 q. 5 ad. sk. N. Ceram. Wallace Coll. 



h. cJ ad. sk. N. Ceram ( Wallace). Gould Coll. 



i. cS juv. sk. E. Ceram. Wallace Coll. 



A-, I. d ad. et J Bouru. Wallace Coll. 



juv. sk. 



m. cS ad. sk. Bouru (Wallace). Tweeddale Coll. 



n. £ ad. sk. Cajeli, Bouru, Nov. II. 0. Forbes, Esq. 



[C.]. 



o. Juv. sk. Lake Wakolo, Bouru, Nov. II. 0. Forbes, Esq. 



re.]. 



p. 3 ad. sk. [New Guinea.] Salvin-Godman Coll. 



q. 3 ad. st. Moluccas. Purchased. 



14. Macropygia keiensis. 



Macropygia, sp., Wall. Ann. fy May. N. H. (2) xx. p. 473 (part.) 

 (1857). 



Macropygia phasianella, part., G. R. Gr. (nee Tetnm.) P. Z. S. 1858, 

 pp. 187, 196 (K6 Isl.) ; id. Cat. B. Netu Guin. pp. 48, 61 (part.) 

 (1859) ; id. P. Z. S. 1861, p. 437 (part.) ; Rch?ib. Tauben,i\. p. 176 

 (part.) (1862) ; Rosenb. N. T. N. I. xxv. p. 249, n. 235 (part.) 

 (1863) ; id.J.f. 0. 1864, p. 133, n. 235 (part.); Fi»sch,Neu-Guin. 

 p. 178 (part.) (1865) ; Wall. Ibis, 1865, p. 389, n. 81 (part.; ; id. 

 J. f. O. 1866, p. 282, n. 81 (part.); Rosenb. (nee Temm.) Reis 

 naar Zuidoostereil. p. 81 (1867). 





