the Genus Macropygia. 237 



rich blue-slate, buffy brown on the forehead. Beneath very 

 pale tawny buff, the breast faintly vinaceous. 



Female. I have seen one specimen, belonging to the Genoa 

 Museum, which, however, is not quite adult, having still the 

 chin and throat white. 



Hub. The Island of Mafor. 



20. Macropygia cinereicbps. 



Macropygia cinereiceps, Tristr. Ibis, 1889, p. 558 (Fer- 

 gusson Island) . 



Another outlying race of M. doreya, like M . maforensis and 

 M. keyensis, with the breast barred, but the head and nape 

 deep slate-colour. 



Hab. The D'Entrecasteaux Islands, South-eastern New 

 Guinea. 



I have not been able to examine the types, which are in 

 the York Museum, but Canon Tristram assures me that the 

 S.E. New Guinea bird in the British Museum is identical. 



Section b. — Breast conspicuously vinaceous, without or 

 with only traces of transverse bars. 



21. Macropygia batchianensis. 



Macropygia amboinensis, var. batchianensis, Wall. Ibis, 

 1865, p. 389. 



Macropygia lurtur, Schleg. Mus. P.-B. iv. Columba3, 

 p. 112. 



Macropygia batchianensis, Salvad. Orn. Pap. iii. p. 136. 



Adult male. Very similar to M. amboinensis, from which 

 it differs by the breast being conspicuously vinaceous, the 

 feathers tipped with whitish, unbarred, the head generally 

 paler, but in one specimen as in that species. 



In two specimens the chin and throat are very rufous, and 

 there are faint traces of barring on the breast. A third 

 specimen, marked female (Wallace), is like the male, but 

 slightly barred below. I do not consider this reliable. It is 

 evidently a bought skin. It has, moreover, the largest 

 measurements in the series. 



Adult female. Another specimen, so marked by Wallace, is 

 of the general rufous-brown type of the females of this group. 



