236 Major R. G. Wardlaw Ramsay on 



rufous and brown, and beneath the breast-feathers are 

 blackish, with white shafts, and the chin and throat white. 

 Wing 6-3 inches (N.W. Guinea), 6'8 to 6"6 (S.E. New 

 Guinea), tail 8, tarsus 0*9, bill 08. 



Hob. The mainland of New Guinea and many of its 

 adjacent islands, including the Aru group. 



The next three species are more or less closely allied to 

 M. doreya. 



18. Macropygia keyensis. 



Macropygia phasianella (pt.). Wall. Ibis, 1865, p. 389. 



Macropygia turtur (pt.), Schlegel, Mus. P.-B. iv. Columbse, 

 p. 114. 



Macropygia keyensis, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, ix. 

 p. 204 (1876) ; id. P. Z. S. 1878, p. 89 ; id. Orn. Pap. iii. 

 p. 146. 



Adult male. Like the typical M. doreya, but has the brighter 

 rufous upper tail-coverts of the birds of that species from the 

 S.E. Peninsula. The head pale cinnamon-brown, with a cine- 

 reous shade on the occiput, and the nape and mantle metallic 

 green. Beneath it differs from all the specimens I have seen 

 in its pale colour and the conspicuous barring on the whole 

 lower surface, the breast being faintly vinaceous. 



It somewhat resembles M. maforensis, Salvad. 



The type, which was collected by the ' Challenger ' Expe- 

 dition, is in the British Museum. 



A young specimen from Ke, in the Genoa Museum, is very 

 dark in plumage, and the head beautifully mottled with 

 chestnut and black, from the bases being black and the tips 

 chestnut. There is a trace of metallic green on the mantle, 

 the feathers of which are dark brown with pale tips. 



Hab. The Ke Islands. 



19. Macropygia maforensis. 



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

 p. 115 (Mafoor). 



Macropygia maforensis, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. ix. 

 p. 204 (1870) ; id. Orn. Pap. iii. p. 148. 



Adult male. Like M. doreya, but with the head and nape 



