30. NEOMORPHTJS. 415 



(1862) ; Wallace, P. Z. S. 1863, p. 28 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 20.5, 

 no. 8S72 (1870) ; fiharpe, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 007, fig. 10 ; Salvad. 

 Ucc. Bom''o, p. 70(1874); Briir/r/. Abhandl. nat. Ver. Brem. v. 

 p. 45-5 (1877); Sliarpc, Ibis, 1877, p. 7, 1878, p. 410; Becc. Ann. 

 Mils. Civ. Gen. xiii. p. 452 (1878) ; Salvad. op. cit. xiv. p. 187 

 (1879). 

 Neomorplius radiatus, Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, Cuculi, p. 00 (1804). 



Adult. Head black, strongly glossed with violet on the upper 

 parts ; neck pearl-grc}-, shaded behind with green, and passing into 

 glossy grass-green on the mantle and outer webs of most of the 

 (juills; primary-coverts and quills mostly glossy blue-black, strongly 

 shaded with lilac-bronze, chietly so on the secondaries ; back rufous- 

 shaded brown, washed with green at the ends of the feathers ; 

 upper tail-coverts and tail glossy violet, partially shaded with green, 

 especially on the coverts : sides of the head bare and green ; chin 

 and upper throat black, less glossed with violet than the crown, 

 and abruptly passing into pearl-grey tinted with green on the 

 remainder of the throat ; the rest of the underparts white, shaded 

 with rufous-brown on the sides of the body, abdomen, and under 

 tail-coverts, and each feather with numerous concentric dark bars, 

 mostly green ; axillaries and under wing-coverts dark rufous-brown, 

 with dusky bars ; under surface of the quills black : " bill and legs 

 green ; iris brown " ( Wallace). Total length 24-3 inches, culmen 

 2-2, wing 9-5, tail 12, tarsus 3-45. 



Hah. Borneo. 



a, b. Ad. St. ; c. Ad. sk. Borneo. Rajah Brooke [P.]. 



d. Ad. sk. Borneo. Seebohm Coll. 



e. Ad. sk. Luiiibidan ( //. T. Ussher). Tweeddale Coll. 

 /. Ad. sk. Sarawak. AVallace Coll. 

 ff. Ad. sk. Sarawak, Oct. {A. H. Tweeddale Coll. 



Everett), 

 h. (S imm. sk. Baram, July. C. Hose, Esq. [P.]. 



2. Carpococcyx viridis. 



Carpococcyx viridis, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen.xw. p. 187 (1879). 



Count Salvadori, in his account of Beccari's collection from Su- 

 matra, points out that the Carpococcyx from the latter island is 

 much smaller and darker than the Boruean bird, and lacks the violet 

 retloxions which are mentioned in every description of the latter 

 bird. All the adult specimens of C. radiatus and even the young 

 birds in the Museum are purple. 



Hah. Sumatra. 



36. NEOMORPHUS. t, 



Neomorphus, Gloyer in Fronep's 2\otiz. xvi. p. 278 



(1827) N. geoftroji. 



Cidtrides, Pucher. Rev. Zool. 1845, p. 61 X. geoffroyi. 



Ituiuje. Central America from Nicaragua to Panama, extending 

 to Colombia, Ecuador, Guiana, Amazonia, and Brazil. 



