the Genus Macropygia. 239 



mottled with darker colour on the breast, showing the last 

 traces of immaturity. 



Young. Of the typical mottled plumage. 



Iris lavender, with an outer circle of yellow. 



A young male, Mowda Island (Richards) , also in Canon 

 Tristram's Collection, has the iris light red and the bill and 

 feet cherry-red. It is like the adult, but retains traces of 

 the barred nuchal patch, slight traces of barring on the 

 breast, and a few of the head-feathers have black bases. 



Wing 7 inches, tail 9, tarsus 0'9, bill 0*85 to 1. 



Hah. New Britain, New Ireland, Duke of York Island, 

 New Hanover. 



Group D. — Adults earthy or rufous brown above, barred 

 beneath, no metallic colours. Sewes alike. 



24. Macropygia magna. 



Macropygia magna, Wall. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 497 (Timor) ; 

 id. Ibis, 1865, p. 389; Schleg. Mus. P.-B. iv. Columbfe, p. 108. 



Male, apparently adult. Head dark cinnamon-rufous ; 

 nape and mantle minutely freckled and barred with dark 

 brown and buff; remainder of the upper surface brown, 

 more or less clearly barred and tipped with rufous, especially 

 on the wing-coverts : beneath buff, conspicuously barred with 

 dark brown, the breast-feathers tipped with paler; chin, throat, 

 and lower tail-coverts more rufous and unbarred ; under 

 wing-coverts, axillaries, and inner webs on the inner sides of 

 the primaries bright cinnamon-rufous ; tail, two outer pairs 

 of feathers rufous, with a long marginal dark spot on the 

 inner web. 



Specimens presumably adult seem to vary somewhat, 

 especially in the depth of rufous beneath and the barring of 

 the nape and mantle, which is sometimes almost white. 



Young. A young male is paler rufous above, and the head 

 has the black mottled appearance of immaturity ; the upper 

 tail-coverts are barred ; beneath rufous, the breast-feathers 

 being blackish, with rufous tips. 



Iris pale golden orange; bill, legs, and feet pinkish 

 purple (Forbes). Wing 7'7 inches, tail 8*6 to 9, tarsus 0"95, 

 bill 0-95. 



Hab. Timor. 



