82 Ant. Reichenow uud Herman Schalow: 



rinis, utrinque macula inter nares et oculos sordide albida, regione 

 parotica et postoculari nigra, tectricibus alarum fuscis late caeruleo- 

 limbatis, remigibus primariis fuscis caeruleo-limbatis, parte basali 

 plus minusve albis, remigibus secuudariis fuscis late caeruleo-limbatis 

 apice pallescentibus; rectricibus caeruleis intus fusco limbatis. Subtus 

 unicolor albida, tectricibus alarum inferioribus basalibus albidis, 

 apicalibus fuscis. Rostro fusco, mandibulae dimidio inferiore albido ; 

 pedibus fuscis. Lg. tot. 190; al. 93; caud. 62; rostr. culm. 32; 

 tars. 12; dig. med. exe. ung. 11 mm. 

 Hab.: Neu-Guinea. 



Farn. GORACIIDAE. 



44. Aegotheles plumifera. 



E. P. Rarasay, Proc. Linn. Sog. N. S. Wales Vol. 8. p. 21. 



Diflfers from Ae. Bennetti in having the face, tbroat, ehest 

 and flanks washed with rufous brown, barred distinctly with black, 

 an ashy spot at the angle of tbe mouth; the head is also washed 

 with rufous, the collar ashy white freckled and barred with black ; 

 the tail with froai 12 to 14 narrow broken bars. Length. 7; wing 

 4,5; tail, 4,2; tars. 0,8; bill from gape 1 inch. The cheek plumes 

 much elongated, the tips of the feathers decomposed and lengthened ; 

 bristles black, long, from 1 to 1,5 inch. in length. 



Hab.: Astrolabe Range (New-Guinea). 



Fam. CAFRIMULGIDAE. 



45. Eurostopodus Astrolabae. 



E. P. Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales Vol. 8 p. 20. 



Head and neck dark brown, the feathers centred by a lanceo- 

 late stripe of black and freckled with ashy; those on the bind neck 

 margined or tipped here and there with rufous; small feathers in 

 front of the eye above and below, and on the throat and the ear- 

 coverts black strongly tipped with rufous; a black streak below 

 the eye, scapulars and adjaceut feathers of the iuterscapular region 

 rieh liglit rufous, heavily blotcbed exteriorly with black, the rufous 

 portions freckled with narrow zigzag and wavy lines of black ; the 

 larger series of the scapulars blackish with ill-defined rufous cross- 

 bands, the adjacent secondaries blackish-brown, banded only on 

 the inner webs with rufous, the bands reduced to spots and finally 

 lost on the three first secondaries; primaries blackish brown, the 

 median ones only with one to two rufous dots on the margin of 

 the outer web; no trace of the white blotch usually found on the 

 wings of other species known. The upper wing-coverts blackish 

 brown tipped with rufous and white; the back, rump and upper 

 tail-coverts dark brown, marked with ashy and pale rufous, and 

 indistinctly barred with black lateral expansions of the central black 

 line; tail blackish brown, barred strongly on the inner webs and 

 spotted on the outer, with rufous irregulär markings; the central 

 two feathers tipped and barred obliquely with black, the interspaces 

 freckled with ashy rufous; the under surface of the tail black, 

 the bars showing conspicuously (the two outermost on either side 



