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bronzy-green reflections, which is faintly continued across 

 the breast ; beneath also somewhat darker and more boldly 

 marked, the throat and upper part of the breast a kind of 

 greyish buff, in sharp contrast to the barred breast, which 

 has a decidedly vinous tinge, becoming metallic amethyst on 

 the sides ; the under wing-coverts, axillaries, as well as the 

 flanks, and thigh-coverts in some specimens, chestnut- brown. 



Adult female. A specimen in the Dresden Museum I am 

 inclined to consider as an almost adult female. It is not 

 quite adult, as the bases of the head-feathers are still brown 

 or blackish. It is like the female M. albicapilla, but darker 

 chestnut above, the lower surface as well as the under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries being of a deeper rufous or red-brown, 

 barred only on the lower tail-coverts. 



Young. Another specimen, which looks like a young male, 

 also in the Dresden Museum, is very dark brown above, and 

 in transition to the purplish brown of the adult ; the head 

 chestnut as in the female, and the mantle in process of ac- 

 quiring the metallic lustre : beneath ochreous brown, dis- 

 tinctly barred ; the under wing-coverts, axillaries, flanks, and 

 thigh-coverts deep chestnut-brown. Wing 6 # 9 inches, tail 

 8 to 8-5, tarsus 1, bill 0*9. 



Hab. Sanghir Islands. 



17. Macropygia doreya. 



Macropygia doreya, Bp. Consp. ii. p. 57 (1854) (New 

 Guinea) j Salvad. Orn. Pap.iii. p. 140; Nehrk. J. f. O. 1885, 

 p. 34 (Waigiou). 



Macropijgia turtur (pt.), Schleg. Mus. P.-B. iv. Columbse, 

 p. 115. 



Macrojnjgia, sp., Meyer, Zeitschr. ges. Orn. i 4 p. 215 

 (Aru). 



I have found the treatment of the Macropygia inhabiting 

 New Guinea and the adjacent islands very difficult. A pro- 

 longed study of a large series of about fifty specimens (not 

 including those from Batchian, Gilolo, Miosnom, and the 

 New Britain Group, which are more easily distinguished), 

 from New Guinea (North-west and South-east), Aru Islands, 



