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STRIPED PROME110PS. 



Promerops striatus. P. fuscus, subtus albo nigroque wdulatus, 



cauda tongissima. 

 Brown Promerops, beneath white with black undulations, and 



very long tail. 

 Upupa Papuensis. U.fusca, subtus albo nigroquefasciata, capite 



colloque atris, rectricibus duabus intermediis longissims. Lath. 



ind. orn. 

 Promerops brun a ventre ray. Buff. ois. PL Enl. 638. A ud. 



et Fiell.Prom.pl.j. 

 New Guinea brown Promerops. Lath. syn. 



FIRST described and figured by Sormerat : total 

 length about twenty-two inches : colour of the 

 head similar to polished steel : throat black : neck, 

 back, wings, and tail brown : breast and remainder 

 of the under parts white, undulated by numerous 

 transverse black stripes, each feather having two 

 white and two black bars : the tail is very long, 

 and strongly cuneated, the two exterior feathers 

 measuring about four inches, and the rest length- 

 ening gradually towards the two middle ones, 

 which measure thirteen inches : the bill is about 

 two inches and a half long, considerably curved, 

 and of a blackish colour : the legs yellowish brown. 

 In the female the head and neck are brown : in 

 other respects the sexes resemble each other. Na- 

 tive of New Guinea, inhabiting large woods. 



If the above description by Sonnerat be cor- 

 rect, it follows that this bird must be perfectly 



