18. fENTROPTTS. 841 



;310 (IS.jO) ; Bp. Comp. i. p. lO.-s (1850) ; Gould, Ilandb. B.Aiistr 

 i. p. 636 (1865) ; Grm/, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 214, no. 8983 (1870). 



C'eiitropu.s inelanurus, Goidd, Intr. B. Austr. p. 68 (1848) ; id. B, 

 Austr. iv. text to pi. 92 (1848) ; Beichh. Vog. Keuholl. ii. pp. 119, 

 310 (1850); Bp. Consp. i. p. 108 (1850); Graxi, Hand-l. B.il 

 p. 214, no. 8984 (1870) ; Bamsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, 

 (2) ii. p. 170 (1887). 



Polophilus melaniinis. Cab. lS'- Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 121 (1862). 



Adult male in hreeding-pluinuge. Head, neck, and entire under- 

 parts black glossed with green and with glossy shaft-stripes to the 

 feathers : wings chestnut, barred with black and buff; the wing- 

 coverts and innermost secondaries with distinct white shafts : back 

 brownish black glossed with green ; rump, upper tail-coverts, and 

 tail glossj- greenish black, with numerous irregular bars of rufous, 

 buff, or white : under surface of the quills chestnut with partial 

 black bars, broadest at their ends : under wing-coverts very similar 

 but more buff: "bill horny black, iris rich golden yellow ; legs 

 slate-colour " {F. T. Gregory). Total length 23-3 inches, culmen 1-6, 

 wing 10-4, tail 14-5, tarsus 2. 



Adult male in non-hreeding plumage. Upper half of the head and 

 back of the neck chestnut, with buff shaft-stripes to each feather, 

 mottled towards the mantle with some narrow wavy black bars : 

 wings, when closed, buff crossed by irregular bars of rufous, each of 

 which is encircled by a broad black margin ; the inner webs of the 

 quills and their shafts mostly rich chestnut ; back dusky brown ; 

 rump, upper tail-coverts, and tail similar in all plumages, glossy 

 greenish black with numerous irregular fulvous bars ; underparts buff 

 with stiff glossy fulvous shafts to the feathers of the throat and chest ; 

 sides of the body and the thighs narrowly barred with black, and 

 the under tail-coverts black, narrowly barred with buff : bill ashy 

 brown, passing into yellow beneath ; iris orange ; legs slate-colour. 

 Total length 22-5 inches, culmen 1-G, wing 9-5, tail 12-7, tarsus 2. 



Hah, Australia. 



a, b. Ad. ; c, d. Australia. Tweeddale Coll. 



Imm. sk. 



e, f, (J. Ad. ; /;. Australia. Seebohm Coll. 



Tmm. sk. 

 i, I: Ad. sk. Australia, April 23 (F. T. Gould Coll. 



Grcgori/), 



I. Ad. sk. New South Wales. Gould CoU. 

 m,n. Ad. .<!k. Richmond Eiver, New South Seebohm CoU. 



Wales. 



0. 1mm. sk. Queensland. Tweeddale Coll. 



/;. Imm. sk. Port MoUe, Queensland Voy. of H.M.S. 



(Dr. Coppinger). ' Alert.' 



q. Imm. sk. ^Moreton Bay, Aug. J. R. Elsey, Esq.!"P.]. 



r,s. Imm.sk. Percy Islands, July {F. Voy. of H.M.§. 



M. Bagner), ' Herald.' 



t, n. Ad.; v. w. Somerset, Cape York Tweeddale Coll. 



Imm. sk. (Coclierell ^- Thorpe). 



X. Ad. sk. Cape York. Gould Coll. 



y. $ imm. sk. Cape York. Vov. of H.M.S. 



' Challeno-er.' 



