14. EUDTNAMTS. 315 



The amount of striping on the underparts varies slightly, but 

 apparently not with age ; the immature birds may be easily recog- 

 nized by the more spotted appearance of the mantle and by the 

 greater amount of : fous shade on the throat. 



JJah. The same as that of the genus. 



a. Ad. St. New Zealand. Miss K. Stone [P.". 



b. 2Vd. slv. New Zealand. Sir E. Home [P.]." 



c. Ad. sk. New Zealand. Capt. Stokes [P.J. 



d. Imm. sk. New Zealand. Mr. Low [P.J. 



e. Irum. sk. New Zealand. Sir G. Grey [P.]. 

 /'. Ad. ; //. Imm. sk. New Zealand. Tweeddale Coll. 

 h, i. Ad. sk. New Zealand. Seebohm Coll. 



k, I. Ad. sk. Dunediu, New Zealand, Dec. Hume Coll. 



m. Ad. sk. Tongatabu, Friendly Islands. Purchased. 



It. Ad. .sk. Island of Huaheine, Society Tweeddale Coll. 



Island.s. 



0. Imm. sk. Samoa, Kev. S. I. \Miitmee 



[C.]. 



14. EUDYNAMIS. 



Type. 



Eudynamys, Vig. ^ Sorsf. Tr. Linn. Soc. xv. 



p. 303 (1826) E. cyauocephala. \ 



Dynamene, Stcj)h. Gen. Zool. xiv. p. 211 (1830). . E. mindanensis. j 



Eudynamis, Bp. Coiisp. i. p. 100 (1850) i 



Range. Indian Peninsula and Ceylou, through the Burmese 

 countries to Southern China. Through the Malayan Peninsula, 

 with the islands of the Bay of Bengal, the wliolc Malayan Archi- 

 pelago to New Guinea and the Papuan Islands, and also Australia. 



Koj to the Sj^ecics. 



a. Plumage never entirely black. (Females.) 

 a'. Bill never black. 



«". Smaller; bars on breast broader. J 



a'". Bars on abdomen broader /(o«o?'fl/«, p. 315. 



//". Bars on abdomen narrower mindnnennix, p. .■]21. 



//'. Larger ; bars on breast very narrow. 

 (■'". AH the pale parts of the plumage 

 not rufous ; upper half of the head 



and back of neck black ; chin and j 



upper half of throat black, with a 



wiiite loral band. i 



(i\ Pale portions of plumage more 



rufescent, never white orientcdis, p. 322. 



h\ Pale portions of plumage whiter, 

 the spots on the mantle more 



numerous and mostly white .... cyanocephala, p. 324. 

 d'". Entire plumage rufous and black ; 

 upper half of the head and the chin 

 broadly striped with rufous and 



black ntfiventer, p. 325. 



h'. Bill black melanorhyncha, p. 327. 



