1. goura. 625 



periophthalniic region black ; chin and frontal edge blackish ; blue 

 colour of the neck changing into purple-chestnut on the lower part 

 of it and on the breast ; wing-speculum formed by the greater wing- 

 coverts, and apical band of the tail bluish grey ; greater wing- 

 coverts tipped with large chestnut spots : bill black ; feet purple- 

 red, toes paler ; irides red. Total length about 27"51 inches, wiug 

 13-75, tail 10-61-10-22, bill 1-25, tarsus 3-34-3-18. 



Female. Similar to the male. 



Youmj. Smaller ; the purple-chestnut colour on the breast less 

 conspicuous, the chestnut spots at the tip of the greater wing- 

 coverts smaller, or even wanting ; crest of the feathers narrower, 

 and with the apical white edge less conspicuous. 



Hab. Jobi and Mysori in Geelvink Bay. 



a. Ad. st. New Guinea. Zool. Society's Coll. 



b. 2 ad. sk. Ansus, Jobi Is. (A. B. Meyer). Tweeddale Coll. 



c. d. 3 juv. etad. Kordo, April (A. B. Meyer). Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 sk. 



e. Ad. [head]. Gould Coll. 



/. Skeleton. Zool. Society's Coll. 



y. Skeleton. Dr. Falconer [P.]. 



6. Goura beccarii. 



Goura, sp., Salvad. Ann. 3Ius. Civ. Gen. viii. p. 405 (1876) (Hum- 

 boldt Bay). 



Goura beccarii, Salvad. I. c. p. 406 (1870), ix. p. 208 (note) (1876) ; 

 id. Orn. Pap. e Mol. iii. p. 208 (1882) ; Meyer, Zeitschr.f. yes. 

 Orn. 1886, p. 17 (Kafu) ; Salvad. Men. R. Ac. Sc. Tor. (2) xlii. 

 p. 67 (Ayy. Orn. Pap. e Mol. p. 193) (1891). 



Goura victoriae, var. comata, Oust. Ann. Sc. Nat. 1885, Art. 3, p. 3 

 (Kafou). 



Very much like G. victoria (Fraser), but larger and stronger, with 

 stronger feet and longer toes ; the crest larger, fuller, and with the 

 apical spatula broader ; the general greyish-blue colour lighter, and 

 the dorsal feathers scarcely edged. Total length 31 inches, wing 

 15-5, tail 11*5, bill 1-4, tarsus 35 : "spatula of the feathers of 

 the crest sometimes 40 mm. ( = 1-57 inch) broad" (Meyer). 



Beside the type (a head) described by me, I have seen a fine 

 specimen in Mr. Hartert's possession, and the types of G. victoria, 

 var. comata, Oust., in the Museum of Paris. 



Hab. Northern New Guinea, near Humboldt Bay and Kafu *. 



* I am not acquainted with the following subspecies : — 

 Goura beccarii liuonensis, Meyer, Orn. Jaliresb. i. Jahrg. April 1893, Nr. 4. 

 ? Goura victoria, Be Vis (nee Fraser), Zooloq. Glean. (Asm, Rep. Brit. Kew 

 Guin. for the years 1890-911 ; id. Ann. Queens!. Mus. no. 2, p. 9 (1892) 

 (Collingswood 13;iy). 



Goura G. beccarii simili~, sed major, supra c;eruleseeutior et subtus vinaceo- 

 purpurea. Pedibus rubris. Long. tot. c. 830, al. 410, caud. 325. rostri culm. 

 54. tarsi 94. 



Hab. Nova Guinea Orientali, prope sinum Huon (Me, 

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