240 Major R. G. Wardlaw Ramsay on 



25. Macropygia macassariensis. 



Macropygia macassariensis, Wall. Ibis, 1865, p. 389. 



Macropygia albicapilla, Temm. (pt.), Bias. Zeitschr. ges. 

 Orn. iii. pp. 133, 179; Meyer, Ibis, 1879, p. 137. 



Allied to M. magna. Above mouse-brown, minutely 

 freckled with yellowish buff on the nape and mantle, the 

 shoulder-coverts with traces of rufous tips; beneath, throat 

 and sides of head buffy brown, remainder of the lower sur- 

 face buff, barred with brown ; tail beneath with two outer 

 rectrices rufous, marked with a brown spot on the inner 

 web as in M. magna; under wing-coverts, axillaries, and 

 margin of the inner web of the primaries rufous ; the 

 shoulders dark brown. Wing 7*5 inches, tail 8, tarsus 0*95, 

 bill 0-95. 



Professor Blasius and Dr. Meyer have been in error (//. cc.) 

 in assuming that because there are two varieties in the adult 

 plumage of M. albicapil/a, one of them must be M. macas- 

 sariensis, Wall. 



One specimen, which I presume is the type, is in the 

 British Museum. It is marked M. macassariensis in Mr. 

 Wallace's writing. It does not belong to the same group 

 as M. albicapilla, but to the small group of which M. magna 

 and M. timor-laoensis, Meyer, are the only other species. 



Hab. Macassar. 



26. Macropygia timor-laoensis. 



Macropygia, sp., Scl. P. Z. S. 1883, pp. 51, 195, 200. 



Macropygia timor-laoensis, Meyer, Zeitschr. ges. Orn. i. 

 p. 214 (1884). 



Adult male. Above, head dark brown, tipped with rufous, 

 buff, or white ; nape and mantle barred with white and brown 

 or dark metallic green ; rest of the upper surface pale hair- 

 brown freckled with white or buff ; wing-coverts, secondaries, 

 and tertiaries darker, broadly tipped with rufous ; beneath 

 buffy brown, broadly barred with dark brown, which has 

 metallic purple reflections on the breast ; lower tail-coverts 

 rufous, unbarred; under wing-coverts bright cinnamon- 

 rufous ; the two outer tail-feathers only, as in the last two 



