238 Major R. G. Wardlaw Ramsay on 



Young birds the same, more or less mottled according to 

 age. 



Wing 6-4 to 6-8 inches, tail 8-5, tarsus 0-9, bill t)-9. 

 Hab. Batchian, Ternate, Gilolo, Morty, Kajoa. 



22. Macropygia griseinucha. 



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

 p. 204 (1876) (Miosnom), et xii. pp.430, 431 ; id. Orn. Pap. 

 iii. p. 140. 



This species somewhat resembles M . doreya, but is browner 

 above, and the metallic nape and mantle are much more 

 conspicuous. 



Two adult males are unbarred beneath, as in M. batchia- 

 nensis &n&M. carteretia, which they also resemble in the pale 

 tips to the vinaceous breast-feathers, but they have not the 

 rusty throat of M. batchianensis. A third specimen is slightly 

 barred below, and the breast-feathers have no pale tips, in 

 fact it is more like a typical M . doreya, intermediate between 

 it and M. batchianensis. Wing 6"5 to 6*8 inches, tail 7'7. 



The above specimens are in the Genoa Museum, but I 

 have not had the opportunity of seeing a female. It is, 

 however, almost sure to be of the usual type. 



Hab. The Island of Miosnom. 



23. Macropygia carteretia. 



Macropygia carteretia, Bp. Consp. ii. p. 57 (New Ireland) ; 

 Scl. P. Z. S. 1877, p. Ill, et 1879, p. 447 (New Britain). 



A well-defined species of the M. batchianensis type, but of 

 a much duller and less chestnut-brown above. 



Adult male. Head of a light vinous brown, paling on the 

 forehead, and conspicuously set off by the broad nuchal 

 patch of plumbeous metallic green, with purple reflections ; 

 beneath pale buff, breast clear vinaceous, very markedly 

 tipped with white in adult specimens, getting darker towards 

 the under tail-coverts, which are pale rufous ; under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries chestnut. 



Adult female. Like the females of the whole group. 



One nearly adult (Mus. Tristr.). Above chestnut-brown; 

 nape and mantle brown, freckled with paler, and slightly 

 barred with darker brown ; beneath rufous-brown, slightly 



