Birds from British New Guinaa. 389 



primaries ; tail shorter than wing, not, or but slightly, longer 

 than outstretched feet (in spirit-specimen decidedly longer), 

 rounded, middle quills not pointed ; laterals shorter than 

 mesial s by about the length of the culmen ; tarsus moderate, 

 middle toe equal to it in length ; colouring dark, relieved 

 with crimson. 



Oreospiza fuliginosa, sp. nov. n 



Male. Above smoky olive-brown, inclining to smoky grey 

 anteriorly ; upper tail-coverts crimson ; tail fuscous, lustrous, 

 with many narrow blackish bars ; beneath as above, tips of 

 feathers on the sides and lower edge of the throat, edges of 

 most on the upper breast, forming an incoherent pectoral 

 band, most of the flank and the tips of some of the under 

 tail-coverts crimson ; under surface of wing and tail fuscous 

 brown : " iris dull red ; beak coral-red in adults, corneous 

 or brown above and red below in young ; feet corneous.^' 



" One male, one adult and two young females ; Mt. 

 Scratchley, at 12,200 feet ; contents of stomach, seeds. The 

 call of this bird is exactly like that of the domestic Canary." 



The female scarcely differs from the male, and the young 

 differ from adults mainly in having the under surface russet- 

 or pale coffee-brown and the upper mandible dark horn- 

 brown. 



33. LOBOSPINGUS SIGILLIFER, gCU. Ct Sp. UOV. ( 



LoBospiNGUs, gen. nov. 



Beak shorter than head, pointed, nearly as broad as high 

 at nostril, culmen and gonys with nearly equal curves ; edge 

 of upper mandible convex laterally and vertically, becoming 

 suddenly sharp and deflected in front of rictus, but not 

 forming a tooth, angle of lower mandible rounded ; nostril 

 narrow, vertical, exposed ; caruncular lobules behind the 

 rictus ; wing short, first primary short, not reaching tips of 

 primary-coverts, tip formed of the second, thii'd, and fourth, 

 third slightly the longest ; tail short, rounded ; legs and 

 feet stout. 



LOBOSPINGUS SIGILLIFER, Sp. UOV. 



Above bright green ; rump, upper tail-coverts, and central 

 tail-feathers brown, the last tinged with green ; wings and 



