6. MACROPYGIA. 



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A<1 ult male. General colour above dark chestnut, almost brown on 

 the back ; head conspicuously paler, pale cinnamon ; nape and 

 mantle obsoletely barred with dusky, and with the edges of the 

 feathers metallic green, with amethyst reflections ; beneath pale 

 cinnamon, whitish on the throat, deeper on the sides and under 

 tail-coverts ; pectoral feathers more or less broadly tipped with 

 whitish buff; primaries brown, broadly edged with cinnamon on the 

 inner web beneath ; upper wing-coverts edged with cinnamon ; 

 under wing-coverts cinnamon ; two central pairs of tail-feathers 

 uniform brown chestnut ; the four outer pairs more or less rufous, 

 with a black band, extending towards the base on the inner web: 

 " iris ashy white : bill reddish horn-colour ; feet coral-red " 

 ( Wallace). Total length about 12 inches, wing 5 - 5 to 5 - S, tail 7, 

 bill - 5, tarsus 0-7. 



Female. Upper parts brown ; upper part of the head and tips of 

 the wing-coverts rufous-cinnamon ; nape with rufous and brown 

 bars ; rump and upper tail-coverts narrowly tipped with rufous ; 

 beneath cinnamon rufous ; feathers of the throat and breast blackish 

 brown, with a rufous spot at the tips, giving the breast the appear- 

 ance of being black-spotted. 



Immature males have the breast black-spotted as in the female. 



Javan birds arc smaller than the Tenasserim and Burmah ones 

 (M. assimilis, Hume). Wing 6 - l inches, tail 6 # 8 to 7*1. Bornean 

 birds are even smaller than the Javan birds. 



JIah. Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Malay Peninsula, Tenasserim, and 

 Burrnah. 



a, b. cJ ad. sk. 

 c. c? a d. sk. 

 (J. 3 juv. sk. 

 e. <5 juv. st. 

 /. Juv. st. 

 ,'/, /'■ i. 2 ad. et 



iiiiin. <$ sk. 

 k. d irum. sk. 

 /, m. cJ ad. sk. 



n-q. d $ ad. sk. 

 /■ w. $ ad. et cf 



iinin. sk. 

 x-a'. 3 ad. sk. 

 V. 2 ad. sk. 

 c'. 2 ad. .sk. 



<V. 2 ad. sk. 



>■/',</. 2 ad. 



BJf, 



W. Java. 



W. Java ( Wallace). 



Java, Oct. 



Java. 



Java. 



Sumatra {Carl Bock). 



Sumatra (Carl Hock). 

 lviua Jialu, N. Borneo. 



Dulit, 3000-5000 ft., June. 

 Salangore, April ( W. Davi- 

 son). 

 Mooleyit, Feb. ( W. Davison). 

 Kollidoo, Jau. 

 Tonghoo. 



Tonghoo, April (JR. G. W. 



11.). 

 Karen Hills, Oct., Jan. (It. 



G. W.M.). 



Wallace Coll. 

 TweeddaleColl. 



Zool. Society's Coll. 

 Massena Coll. 

 Purchased. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 A. II. Everett, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 C. Hose, Esq. [C.]. 

 Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 E. W. Oates, Esq. 



[C.]. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 



Tweeddale ColL 



25. Macropygia nigrirostris. 



Macropygia nigrirostris, Saivad. Ann. Mm. Civ. Gen. vii. p. 972 (3) 

 (1876), ix. p. 204, n. 08 (1876); Sctab. P. Z. S. 1877, p. Ill; 



