Valuations of Eos fuscata. 63 



Like the preceding-, but more intensely coloured, and 

 with the bands across the throat bright yellow. 

 0) No. 19757. Fly River {Whitely). Adult.— Nape olive- 

 yellow ; throat-band yellow mixed with large orange 

 spaces ; vertex deep rusty red ; band on the breast, 

 middle of the abdomen, and tibiae almost entirely scarlet ; 

 tail-feathers with orange bases ; inner secondaries 

 ochraceous. 

 {k) No. 15125, 12 (xii.) 1875. Surui, Jobi. Adult.— Nape 

 olive-yellow ; no yellow on the anterior parts, where the 

 feathers have a dark orange-red tinge on the two bands, 

 the abdomen, and the tibiae; innermost great coverts 

 and inner secondaries intense maroon ; tail-feathers with 

 red bases on the inner webs. 

 (/) No. 520. New Guinea (?), 1872. Adult.— In the same 



plumage as the preceding, 

 (m) No. 4123. New Guinea ( Ferrea?<,r). Adult ^ . — Nape 

 dark olive-yellow ; band on tlie throat minium, that on 

 the breast scarlet like the abdomen and tibise ; inner 

 secondaries maroon ; tail-feathers with the basal portions 

 of inner webs minium, 

 (w) No. 16248. Amberbaki [Laglaize). $ . — Band on the 

 nape dark ochraceous ; throat and breast, middle ab- 

 domen and tibiae deep scarlet, sharply separated from 

 the dark brown colour of the thoracic band and flanks ; 

 inner secondaries maroon ; inner webs of the tail- 

 feathers and primaries also scarlet. 

 To recapitulate, it appears from the preceding descriptions 

 (1) that the red colour has a tendency to replace the yellow 

 from the lower parts to the higher ones, beginning from the 

 tibiae and going upwards to the throat ; (2) that at the 

 same time the amount of the rusty red or maroon tinge 

 on the inner secondaries becomes greater; (3) that the 

 immature birds, whether they belong to the red or to the 

 yellow form, have always acuminated tail-feathers, and the 

 coloured bands on the anterior parts not well defined and 

 less brightly coloured. 



