3. LiPOA. 463 



chestnut patch on the middle of the outer web ; lower back, rump, 

 tail-coverts, and undeipirts dark groy ; chin dirty white ; middle of 

 belly and vcut white. Hill dark olive, becoming yellowisli towards 

 the extremity ; legs dark olive, feet blackish. Total length 14 inches, 

 wing 7-(J-8,"tail 1 2-G-3-2, tarsus 2-2. 

 Hah. Same as that of the genus. 



a, b. Ad. sk. East Gilolo. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [0.]. 



(Tvpes of the species.) 



c. Ad. sk. East Gilolo {A. It. Wallace). Gould Coll. 



d. 2 iul. sk. Boeroe. A. K. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



3. LIPOA. „ 



Tvpp. 



Loipoa, Gould, P. Z. S. 1840, p. 12(J E. oc.41ata. 



Leiopa, Gm;/, List of Gem. B. p. 70 (1841) L. ocellata. 



Lipoa, Sundev. Teniamen, p. 118 (187:^) L. ocellata. 



Top of the head covered with feathers forming a short thick crest. 



Nostrils elongate and oval. 



Tail long, rounded, and composed of 16 feathers. 



The longer upper tail-coverts reach to the end of the tail. 



1st primary intermediate in length between the Dtli and 10th : 

 5th slightly the longest. 



Tarsi and feet rather short ; a double row of large hexagonal 

 plates down the front of the tarsus. 



lianrje. Southern and Western Australia. 



1. Lipoa ocellata. 



Leipoa ocellata, Gould. P. Z.8. 1840, p. 126 [W. Australia^; id. B. 

 Auitr. V. pt. i. pi. 78 (1840) ; Grmi, Lid of B. pt. iii. Gall. p. 21 

 (1844) ; id. Gen. B. iii. p. 4Ul (1^47); id. P. Z. S. 1801, p. 288, 

 1804, p. 42 [S. & W. Australia]; Gould, Ilund-l. B. Austr. ii. 

 p. loo (1805); Gray, List Gallinai Brit. Mus. p. 18 (1807) ; Schl. 

 Mus. Pays-Bas, viii. p. 83 (1880) ; Oudal. Ann. Sci. Nat. xi. p. H 

 (1881) , Bennett, Proc. Linn. Son. A'.6'. W. viii. p. 1<)3 (1883) [W. 

 New South Wales]; Ilanisay, Tall. List Austr. B. p. 18 (1888) 

 [N. S. Wales, Interior; South and West Australia] ; North, Nests 

 1^- Eygs Austr. B. p. 281 (1889). 



AduU male and female. Top of head dark brown, feathers elongate, 

 pointed, and forming a short thick crest ; mantle grev, the lower 

 feathers tipi)ed with rufous-brown ; feathers of the middle of the 

 back, scapulars, and wing-coverts grey, with a wide subterminal 

 blackish-lirown band, edged infernally with white and ti[)ped with 

 rufous bull; tiie lunger scapulars and inner secondaries arc very 

 similarly marked, but the basal part is brownish grey irregularly 

 barred with black, and the baiulat the extremity is mostly rufescont 

 olive-brown, irregularly marked and edged with black ; lower back, 

 rump, and ujijier tail-coverts grey washed with brown, the latter 

 barred with black and tipped witii whitish grey; the longest upper 

 tail-coverts are as long as the middle tail-feathers ; primaries and 



