'512 PERISTEEIDiE. 



lustre ; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts dark metallic 

 green, the bases of the feathers somewhat blue ; lower fore neck 

 dark bronze-green, changing into purple-blue on the upper breast, 

 and then into dark bronze-green on the lower breast, abdomen, and 

 under tail-coverts : the feathers of the latter parts have the bases 

 more or less blue ; primaries and their coverts brown-black ; outer 

 webs of the secondaries chestnut ; tail above black with a green 

 lustre, underneath deep black : " bill coral-red ; feet purple, with 

 the scales straw-yellow or orange; soles greyish green" (Loria). 

 Total length about 19 inches, wing 7 - 4, tail 7*5, bill 1, tarsus 2*55. 

 Bab. S.E. New Guinea. 



a. Ad. sk. Interior of Port Moresby, C. Hunstein, Esq. 



S.E. New Guinea. [C.]. 



b. Ad. sk. Vicinity of Port Moresby, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



S.E. New Guinea (A. (Tvpe of O.regalis, 



Goldie). Salv. & Godm.) 



c. Ad. sk. Astrolabe Mountains, June Tweeddale Coll. 



(A. Goldie). 



d. Ad. sk. Astrolabe Mountains. Dr. Eomillv [P.]. 



e. Ad. sk. Goldie River. A. Goldie, Esq. [CI 

 /. Juv. sk. Meroka, New Guinea, Nov. H. 0. Forbes, Esq . ('.". 

 g, h. Ad. sk. S.E. New Guinea (A. Goldie). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



3. Otidiphaps insularis. (Plate XT.) 



Otidiphaps insularis, Salv. S- Godm. P. Z. S. 1883, p. 33: ScAnw. $ 



Schal. J. f. O. 1885, p. 455 ; Salvad. Mem. B. Ac. 8c. Tor. (2) 

 xlii. p. 65 (Agg. 0>m. Pap. e Mol. p. 191) (1891). 



T;/pe. Head and neck blue-black : underparts black, with a 

 greenish tinge on the upper breast and a purple one on the lower 

 breast and abdomen : back and wings cinnamon ; lower back and 

 rump dark olive, changing into purple on the upper tail -coverts, the 

 larger of the latter blue-black ; quills and under wing-coverts brown ; 

 tail above blue-black, underneath deep black : bill coral-red : feet 

 vinous red, with the front scales yellow. Total length 15 inches, 

 wing 7-4, tail 6-6, bill 0-95, tarsus 222. 



Hah. Fergusson Island. 



a. Ad. sk. Fergusson Island (Goldie). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(Type of species.) 



35. STARN(ENAS. 



Type. 



Staincenas *, Bj). Com}). List, p. 41 (1838) S. cyan'ocephala. 



Starnasnas, G. R. Gr. Gen. B. ii. p. 479 (184-">). 



Sterncenas, Rchni. Sgn. Av. if. 1445-40 (1847). 



Perdicopelia, Van der Hoeven, Handb. d. Zool. ed. 2, 



ii. p. 080 (1855) S. cyanocephala. 



Range. Cuba (and Florida Keys). 



* Starncenas is a compound word from the Italian Starna, grey partridge, 

 and th'/ias. 



