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lengthened spatular ends of the two middle tail-feathers white ; the 
outer tail-feathers white, broadly margined with blue-black. 
Length 12", wings 4", bill from gape 1! 11". 
Amboyna (Wail. Coll.). 
This bird, it is supposed, will eventually be found to possess some 
characters distinguishing it from that described by Linnzeus, as from 
Ternate, and therefore the above name has been given to it provi- 
sionally. 
TANYSIPTERA istst. B.M. 
Upper surface dull black, with the feathers of the nape margined 
with deep blue; cheeks and some of the wing-coverts margined with 
bright blue; top of head silvery-blue; eyebrows, round occiput, 
and margins of shoulders verditer-blue ; beneath the body and rump 
white; tail-coverts deep blue; two middle tail-feathers verditer- 
blue, margined with bright blue, the inner margin near the base and 
the short spatular ends white; lateral feathers deep blue, with the 
ends and inner webs more or less white. 
Length 11" 9", wing 3" 8", bill from gape 1" 8!" 
Batchian and Gilolo. 
This species is nearest to the remains of an example of this genus 
which I described under the name of Tanysiptera nympha ; but the 
middle tail-feathers are of a bright indigo-blue, and not so narrow 
near the ends, which are also not so spatula-shaped; the outer 
feathers are entirely of a bluish-black ; the crown of the head is also 
of a bright indigo-blue. 
TANYSIPTERA SABRINA. (Pl. CLXX.) B.M. 
Upper surface black ; cheeks, nape, and upper part of back deep 
blue ; top of head bright blue ; eyebrows, round the occiput, and 
shoulders of wings, silvery-blue ; spot in the middle of back, beneath 
the body, and lateral tail-feathers, white ; the two middle tail-feathers 
with the basal part and the lengthened spatular ends white; the 
narrow part silvery-blue. 
Length 12" 9!"', wings 4!' 3!, bill from gape 1" 8!". 
Kaisa or Kiou Island. 
This species is like Mr. Gould’s Tanysiptera sylvia, in having the 
white spot on the middle of the back ; otherwise it is most like 
Tanysiptera nais, though the blue is of a different hue. 
The genus Tunysiptera now consists of the following species :— 
T. dea, Linn. 'Ternate. 
(?) T. nais, G. R. Gray. Amboyna. 
T. galatea, G. R. Gray (4. dea, Less.). _New Guinea. 
T. hydrocharis, G.R. Gray. Aru Islands. 
T. nympha, G. R. Gray. Philippine Islands? 
T. isis, G. R. Gray. Batchian and Gilolo. 
T. sabrina, G. R. Gray. Kaisa Island. 
T. sylvia, Gould. Cape York. 
+ This seems to be the bird described by Herr F. Heine in Cabanis’ ‘ Journal 
fiir Ornithologie,’ 1859, p. 406, as Tanysiptera margarethe.—P. L. S. 
