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cross markings/' This description applies in a great measure 

 to the three specimens obtained by Lieut. Richards. In these 

 the cross bars are absent from the central pair of rcctrices, 

 and in two birds out of the three from the external pair also ; 

 on the remaining rectrices they are perceptible^ though not 

 strongly marked and for the most part confined to the inner 

 webs. 



Count T. Salvadorij in the article on U. etorques contained 

 in his work 'OrnitologiadellaPapuasia e delle Molucche/vol.i. 

 pp. 49-54^ refers to the absence of transverse bands on the 

 " lower parts " as a character distiaguishing XJ. etorques from 

 most specimens of U.griseigulm'is; but two of Capt. Richards's 

 specimens show distinctly perceptible alternate transverse bars 

 of two shades of vinous brown^ a darker and a paler^ on the 

 flanks, breast, abdomen, tibiae, and under tail-eoverts ; in the 

 third specimen these bars are much more indistinct, being 

 barely perceptible, which is also the case in an adult New- 

 Britain male preserved in the British Museum. 



Count Salvadori speaks of the vinous colour of the under- 

 parts being more intense in U. etorques than in U. grisei- 

 giUaris', but the New-Britain specimens I have examined 

 hardly differ at all from U. griseigularis in this respect. He 

 also describes examples of U. etorques as exhibiting traces of 

 cinereous transverse markings on the throat ; but none of 

 Lieut. Richards's three females from Blanche Bay now before 

 me, exhibit this peculiarity, the throat in each of them being 

 a whole-coloured but rather pale vinous. 



The only other point in which the New-Britain birds 

 appear to differ from New- Guinea examples of U. etorques is 

 a remarkable one, viz. the colour of the iris. All Capt. 

 Richards's three adult females are marked as having the 

 ^4ris brown,'' whereas, according to D'Albertis's notes, quoted 

 by Salvadori, an adult male from Sorong had the eyes 

 '' yellow," another adult male from Naiabui had them a 

 "lively yellow," while two females, from Sorong and Arfak 

 respectively, also had the irides " yellow." 



I have made the following notes of the measurements of 

 the New-Britain specimens which I have examined : — 



