N. W. COAST OF NEW GUINEA. 67 



type-specimens collected by Dr. S. Muller on the Island 



of Aiduma near Tritons Bay in 1828. 



Al. 315 mm.; caiid. 162 mm.; culm. 38 mm. 9 ^^1- 

 [Iris dark brown, orbital skin bluish. Schildler]. 



62. Nasiterna pygmaea (Quoy & Gaim.). 



Salvad. Cat. B. Br. M. XX, p. 140. 



A single skin (old male) with a distinct breast-patch 

 of cinnamon-red, which is wanting in the female ; the 

 specimens collected by Dr. Ö. Muller on the Utanate River 

 (1828) and marked »cr and 9", are therefore both females, 

 mm. mm. mm. 



Al. 62 ; caud. 24 ; culm. 7 . cT Sekru. 

 » 60—62; » 25—27; » 7 — 8. 9 utanate. 

 [Iris light brown, bill dark. Schadler]. 



63. Edectus pectoralis (P. L. S. Mull.). 

 Salvad. Cat. B. Br. M. XX, p. 389. 



Two old males (green) and an old female (red). 



[Male : Iris dark yellow, upper mandible red, tip yellowish 

 white, lower mandible black; female: Iris yellowish white, 

 bill black. SchadlerJ. 



64. Geoffroyus Pucherani Bp. 



Salvad. Cat. B. Br. M. XX, p. 407. 



Two old females (January) in a rather worn off plu- 

 mage, and differing a good deal from each other. In N° 153 

 the whole head is dark brown, with a dark green gloss on 

 the ocbiput, sides of the head lighter than the vertex; the 

 whole uropygium dark purplish red. In N° 140 the uro- 

 pygium is only spotted with dark purplish and the vertex 

 washed dark green ; both show no trace of a brown spot 

 on the smaller wing-coverts ; the axillaris and under wing 

 coverts are deep ultramarine blue; bill dusky. 

 Al. 145 — 147 mm.; caud. 67 — 70 mm.; culm. 20—22 mm. 



[Iris brown, bill dark, lower mandible lighter. Schadler]. 



Notes from the Ley den IVIuseuru, Vol. XXII. 



