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nuchal collar, and ear-co verts much as in ^. stonei, Sharpe ; 

 face white, chin grey mottled with black bases; a black 

 moustachial streak from middle of hinder edge of chin to 

 side of neck ; upper throat buffy white^ immaculate ; beneath 

 fawn, washed with yellowish green on lower throat and 

 breast, and varied with large apical black spots, which form 

 longitudinal streaks anteriorly, but break up into smaller 

 scattered spots on lower breast, and vanish on abdomen 

 and thighs ; lower tail-coverts fulvous, with green and 

 fuscous-green tips, more or less lengthened ; axillaries and 

 lesser under wing-coverts buffy white, the greater series ashy 

 with white tips : beak pale greenish horn ; legs and feet 

 bluish grey. Length 242 mm., wing 125, tail 98, culmen 20, 

 tarsus 34. 



Mt. Scratchley, a spirit-specimen. 



Fam. An ATI D^. 



36. Salvadorina waigiuensis, Rothsch. et Hart. 



Male. Head and neck above and below dusky brown, 

 minutely pencilled with paler tips, which are more con- 

 spicuous on the sides of the head ; a brownish- white crescent 

 on lower eyelid ; upper surface black, with a slight gloss of 

 light blue, each feather on the lower back, rump, and upper 

 tail-coverts with two narrow white bars, one terminal, the 

 other mesial and concealed, the bars broader on the scapulars 

 and median wing-coverts ; anterior greater coverts broadly 

 edged with white, forming a band across the wing ; speculum 

 rich green, with faint purple reflection on upper half, fuscous 

 with purple reflection on lower, broadly edged posteriorly 

 with white, which forms a second band; inner primaries 

 narrowly edged with white; tail fuscous brown, with grey 

 edges above, grey below ; lower surface white stained with 

 Isabel, which is darker on the upper breast ; throat, sides of 

 breast, and whole abdomen and under tail-coverts with 

 fuscous spots, darker and paler mingled ; flanks black, 

 conspicuously barred with white edges ; wing beneath 

 shining lead-grey ; lesser under wing-covcrts fuscous, barred 

 with white, tipped with grey, the greater lead-grey ; inner 



