364 COLUJIBIDJE. 



Adult male. " Above chestnut-brown, browner on the upper tail- 

 coverts, beneath paler and more hazel ; under wing-coverts and 

 axillaries bright rufous ; tail beneath (or rather above '?) pale 

 chestnut ; three outer pairs of rectrices buff, with a broad band across 

 the centre of the feathers and extending towards the base of the 

 inner web : ' iris orange ; bill black ; legs dull red ' (Layard)." 

 (Vate, N. Hebrides, Mas. Tristram, fide Wardlaiu Ramsay.) 



Adult male (Erromango). Above dull chestnut-brown, brighter 

 on the rutnp and upper tail-coverts ; forehead, sides of the head, 

 fore neck, breast, and under tail-coverts rufous chestnut or dull 

 cinnamon ; feathers of the breast forked as in some species of 

 Ptilojji ; abdomen paler and minutely freckled with brown ; under 

 wing-coverts and inner webs of the quills towards the base rufous 

 chestnut ; tail above brown-chestnut ; three outer pairs of rectrices 

 bright rufous, with a broad black band on the apical portion, extend- 

 ing towards the base of the inner web : " iris yellow ; bill black ; 

 feet red" (Layard). Total length about 12-5 inches, wing 6-3, tail 7, 

 bill 0-51, tarsus 0-8. 



Female. Like the male, but paler, with no uniform cinnamon colour 

 on the forehead, sides of the head, fore neck, and breast, these parts 

 being pale rufous, minutely freckled with brown ; the throat whitish ; 

 the forked feathers of the breast showing dusky bases, and some 

 having paler tips : " iris yellow ; feet cherry " (Layard). 



Anotber specimen from Aneitcum is like the last, but slightly 

 darker above, and some of the breast-feathers are paler, almost 

 whitish towards the tips. 



Hub. New Hebrides — Vate, Aneiteum, Tanna, Erromango, 

 Ainbrym, Mallicolo, St. Bartholomew, Santo, Api. 



a. t$ ad. sk. Erromango, New Hebrides, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



June (E. L. Layard). 



b. Ad. sk. Aneiteum, New Hebrides. Cuming Coll. 



c. J ad. sk. Port ^Resolution, Tanna Is., Salvin-GodmanColl .* 



July (G. E. Richards). 



* Macropygia mackinlayi. 



Macropygia mackinlayi, Earns. Pr. Linn. Soo. N. S. W. ii. pp. 28fi, 287 

 (1878) (Tanna), iii. p. 339 (1879); Tristr. Ibis, 1879, p. 194; Wardl. 

 Bams. Ibis, 1890, p. 227 ; Wiylesw. Aves 1'otynes. p. 54, n. 277 (1891). 



Female. " The whole of the upper surface dark ashy brown, darker on the 

 wings ; the second, third, and fourth primary quills with an inconspicuous 

 narrow line of white en the outer edge of the outer web ; the rump and upper 

 tail-coverts, wing-coverts, and scapularies minutely freckled with ashy white, 

 giving a powdery appearance to those parts ; the under surface is of a light 

 ashy brown, blackish on the centre of the breast feathers, which are forked ; 

 the throat and the whole of the under surface minutely freckled with a light 

 ashy tint ; under winy-coverts and inner webs of the quills ashy white ; tail ashy 

 brown, lighter below, the outer feathers above blackish, with the tips ashy 

 white and an oval cream-coloured patch occupying the central portion of the 

 leathers and extending over the outer web to the base ; the blackish colour 

 from the inner web extends in a wedge-shaped stripe along the shaft ; the 

 next feather similar, but without the whitish mark on the outer web ; an oval 



