296 cpctJLiD^. 



which is absent on the centre pair of feathers ; outer pair of feathers 

 with broad white ends and four or five partial white bars, the next 

 pair having two rufous blotches on the inner web ; sides of the 

 head and neck white, mottled with brown ; throat and entire under 

 surface of the body white, barred with coppery bronze with green 

 reflexions; under wing-coverts like the breast; under surface of 

 the quills dusliy brown, with broad white bases to most of the inner 

 webs forming a bar across the wing ; under surface of the tail ashy 

 instead of metallic, with the white and rufous markings much more 

 sharply defined : iris brown ; bill blue-black ; feet slate-colour. 

 Total length G-5 inches, culmen 0"6, wing 4, tail 3, tarsus 0-65. 



Adult female. Similar in plumage to the male. Total length 

 6'3 inches, culmen 0'6, wing 4-2, tail 3, tarsiis 0"(j. 



Hah. Eastern Australia and New Zealand, as well as the Chatham 

 Islands. 



a. Ad. St. ; b. Ad. New Zealand. Sir G. Grey [P.]. 



sk. 



c, d. Ad. sk. New Zealand. Tweeddale Coll. 



e,f. Ad. sk. New Zealand. Seebohm Coll. 



g, h. S $ ad. sk. New Zealand (F. Struiv/e). Capt. Stokes [P.]. 



J. cJ ad.sk. Dunedin, New Zealand, Decern- J. "White, Esq. [^P.]. 



ber. 



k, I. Ad. sk. Chatham Island. Colonial Museum, 



Wellington [P.]. 



ni. Ad. sk. Australia. Gould Coll. 



n. S ad. sk. Banks' Peninsula, December. Seebohm Coll. 



0, p, q. Ad.sk. Cape York {Cockerell &■ 



Thorpe). Tweeddale Coll. 



C. Chalcococcyx poliurus. 



Lamprococcvx pceciluroides (^/lec >S(i/i-ad.), Meyer, Zeitschr. yes. Orn. 



1886, p. 33. 

 Lamprococcyx poliurus, Salvad. Grn. Pupuasia, Ajip. p. 49 (1889). 



Adult. Above golden green ; forehead varied with white ; sides 

 of the head and the throat varied with dusky ; fore neck white, 

 with irregular dusky bands glossed with green ; remainder of under 

 surface white, with transverse bands of shining green ; under wing- 

 coverts white with blackish bars : wing beneath with a white patch 

 at the base of the quills ; tail above glossy green, with a sub- 

 terminal dark band : beneath grey, the outer feather having on the 

 basal part of the outer web four white spots, and five on the inner 

 web alternating with four black spots : the next feather grey 

 beneath, with the base and end black, and the inner web spotted 

 with four but slightly conspicuous white spots : the next two pairs 

 more uniform, but with a white spot at the end of the inner webs : 

 bill blackish; feet lead-colour. Total length 6"1 inches, culmen 0"6, 

 wing 4, tail 2*6, tarsus 0*7. {Salraduri.) 



Hah. Island of Tai'awai, New Guinea. 



