610 PEBISTEBID.&. 



feathers on the sides and hind neck short and blackish ; lower back, 

 rump, upper tail-coverts, wings, and tail dark grey, tinged with olive 

 on the wing-coverts ; middle of the abdomen whitish buff or cream- 

 colour ; sides bright rufous ; under tail-coverts pale rufous ; quills 

 brown, with narrow rufous outer edges, especially towards the tip 

 of the secondaries ; under wing-coverts whitish cream-colour, tipped 

 with brown-black, the smaller ones entirely black : bill whitish, 

 with the base ashy ; feet pale flesh-colour ; iris red. Total length 

 about 13 - 36 inches, wing 7'20, tail 5 - 5, bill 07, tarsus 1-6. 



Female. Similar to the male. 



Young. The greater wing-coverts edged with rufous. 



Hob. Western New Guinea and Salawatti. 



a, b. Ad. sk. et New Guinea. Wallace Coll. 

 st. 



c. Ad. sk. New Guinea. Tweeddale Coll. 



d. $ ad. sk. Karons, N.W. New Guinea, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



April (L. Laglaize). 



2. Eutrygon leucopareia. 



Eutrygon terrestris, part., Sharpe in GotdcVs B. Neio Guin. pt. xiii. 



(1882) ; Salvad. Orn. Pap. e Mol. iii. p. 563 (part.) (1882). 

 Eutrygon leucopareia, Meyer, Zeitschr. f. ges. Orn. 1886, p. 29 ; 



Salvad. Mem. R. Ac. Sc. Tor. (2) xlii. p. 65 (Agg. Orn. Pap. e Mol. 



p. 191) (1891). 



Similar to E. terrestris, but with the smaller and median upper 

 wing-coverts slightly washed with reddish or purplish colour, and 

 with the cheeks, throat, and forehead more whitish. 



Hah. S.E. New Guinea. 



a. Ad. sk. Fly River (?), New Guinea. Gould Coll. 



b. Ad. sk. Astrolabe Mountains, New Tweeddale Coll. 



Guinea, June (A. G oldie). 



c. Ad. sk. Vicinity of Port Moresby (A. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



G oldie). 



d. e. Ad. sk. S.E. New Guinea {A. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Goldie). 



34. OTIDIPHAPS. T 



Type. 

 Otidiphaps, Gould, Ann. 8? Mag. N. H. (4) v. p. 62 



(1870) 0. nobilis. 



Range. New Guinea and Fergusson Island. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Hind neck bronze-green nobilis, p. 611. 



b. Hind neck grey cervicalis, p. 611. 



c. Hind neck black like the head inmlaris, p. 612. 



