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young males have the lores or space between the bill and the 

 eye not so deep a black as in the male. 



Head and all the npper sm-face shining bluish black; 

 wings dark brown ; tail brownish black ; lores deep velvety 

 black; under surface silky white, w^ith the exception of the 

 sides of the chest, which are dull black ; irides dark brown ; 

 basal half of the sides of the upper mandible and the basal 

 two-thirds of the lower mandible greenish blue ; the re- 

 mainder of the bill bluish black; legs and feet dark bluish 

 brown. 



Genus PIEZORHYNCHUS, Gould. 



The only species of this genus yet discovered in Australia 

 is a native of the northern parts of that country, from Cape 

 York to Port Essington, wdiere it frequents the dense beds of 

 mangroves. 



Mr. G. R. Gray, in his Catalogue of the Birds of the Tro- 

 pical Islands of the Pacific Ocean in the collection of the 

 British Museum, enumerates two species of this form from 

 New Ireland, and in his Catalogue of the Birds of New Guinea 

 one from the Aru Islands. 



Sp. 142. PIEZORHYNCHUS NITIDUS, Gould. 



Shining Elycatcher. 



Piezorhynchiis nitidus, GoVi\(\. m Proc. of Zool. Soc, part viii. p. 171. 

 Ui-g-bur-ka, Aborigines of Port Essington. 



Piezorhynchus nitidus, Gould, Birds of Australia, foL, vol. ii. 

 pi. 88. 



This Elycatcher is by no means scarce at Port Essington, 

 but, from the extreme shyness of its disposition and the 

 situations it inhabits, it is seldom seen ; specimens in fact are 

 not procured without considerable trouble and difficulty. As 



