in. 



KIIAJIl'ltOMANTIS. 17. SfTTHROPS. .^Of) 



n.ii'«r"h-"TV^'f '!/''°°' *^' ^^'^ "^ ^^-^^'"g "° ^^'^'-k collar nor dark 

 mou ta hial band ; the crown and back of the neck are rather dis- 

 hnc ly barred .v.th rufous and dark brown ; the sides of the head 

 W "'tIi f "T'.i''^ f '^' ''''''' -^^J'^hi^^ ^ith dusky 

 tarsus 7? ^°^ ^"^ ''"'^''' '''^'^''' 0''' ^^°S -i, tail 3-5. 

 iTaS. The same as that of the genus. 



a. 2 imm. sk. Astrolabe Mts., S.E. h. 0. Forbes, Esq. 



Aew Giunea, Dec. 15. [C.l. 



16. RHAMPHOMANTIS. 



Ptharapliomantis, Salved. Awi. M«s. Civ. Gen. xiii ^•■^''' 



ife/ 9, p. 4o0 „ , 



-K. megarhvuchus. 



i?rt«ye. New Guinea and Aru Islands. 



1. Rhamphoinantis megarhynchus. 



^^. j.f. 0. i86J?p. 117; i,-S;k;£/^i^.^£.^i 



(IbO i) ; J,„5o/;, Neit-Gmn. p. 159 (1805). ^ ' 



Ehamphomautis megarhynchus, 6«/.«r/. ^««. Mus. Civ Gen xiii 

 p. 4o9 (18.8) ; Id. On>. Papuasia etc. i. p. 343 (1880). 



^cZiJ^ '"f '■ t^PPer parts brown, with the crown, nape, and sides 

 the head grey ; a bare dusky patch round the eve : ' nderp s 



ba red wTtt 177^"'^ 'l\ '''' 7^^^ ^-^J" -^' -d obscS 

 haired with that colour on the under tail-coverts ; under win- 

 coverts and a large basal portion of the inner web of the Tifls 

 rufous ; end of the quills dark brown : tail brown, wih pa e huffish 



leatneis, t le outer tail-feathers having on their inner webs about 



X rufous bars alternating with broader black ones, the nS feaThe 



imilarly but more obscurely marked: '«bill black legs slaty 're '' 



tarsus o1: ' ''' ""'"' '"'"'^" '-''' ^^^° 3"^' ^'^^^ 3, 



Hub. The same as that of the genus. 



«. 6 ad. sk. Aru Islands. WaUace Coll. (Type of 



species.) 



17. SCYTHROPS. 

 Scytbrops, Zat/,. Ind. Orn. i. p. 141 (17tK)) . . . . S. nov.-e-hoEndia. 



anf fbrv'T"'" ^^^^>f ,^°^^ ^^^ adjacent Tapuan Islands, to Ceram 

 and the Moluccas, Celebes and Plores. v.ciam 



