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lost); under tail-coverts black barred witli light rufous or deep 

 buff; flanks, belly, and breast strongly spotted at the tip of each 

 feather, and barred witb light rufous or deep buff, forming scale- 

 like markings; feathers of the ehest blackish, alternately barred 

 with irregulär wavy lines of rufous and black ; throat patch white, 

 the lateral feathers tipped with rufous; under wing-coverts blackish 

 brown, spotted, tipped or barred with rufous, legs reddish brown; 

 bill black at the tip, brown at base and sides. Tot. length. about 

 9,5; wing 7,6; tail5,5; tars. 0,55; mid, toe 0,7, bill from gape 1,1 

 iuches. — The chief characteristics are the rufous markings of the 

 throat and ehest, the scale-like markings on the abdomen and flanks, 

 and the absence of the usually found large white or rufous spots 

 on the primaries, and the rufous collar. 



Hab.: Astrolabe Range (New-Guinea). 

 Farn. CYPSELIDAE. 



46. Ghaetura Böhmi. 



H. Schalow, Journ. Orn. 31. Jahrg. p. 104. 



Ch. supra nigra; guia, jugulo hypochondriisque fuliginosis, 

 gulae plumarum rachidibns nigris; alis nigris; loris, pectore, crisso 

 et uropygii fascia angusta albis. Iride fusca, rostro pedibuque 

 nigris. Lg. tot. 9; al. 12,5; caud. 3,6 Cm. 



Hab.: Kakoma, Africa Orient. 



Obs. : Ch. Cassinn Sei. ex Africa occident. similis, sed colore 

 gulae fuliginoso nee albo, loris albis et pectore albo nee fuliginoso 

 facile distinguenda. 



-f- 47. Ghaetura Sclateri occidentalis. 



H. V. Berlepsch und L. Taczanowski, Proc. Z. S. London 

 1883 p. 569. 



Ces oiseaux ont le cendre du croupiou et de l'abdomen plus 

 obscur que chez la vraie Gh. Sclateri, Pelz. ; l'aile et la queue sont 

 aussi plus longues. 11 nous parait donc que cet oiseau merite 

 ä etre distingue comme race locale. 



S Long, de l'aile 112, queue 45 mm. ? Long, de l'aile 110—112, 

 queue 45 mm. 



Dans la Ch. Sclateri vraie l'aile est longue de 96, queue 42 mm. 



Hab.: Chimbo, Ecuadeur occidental. 



47a. Rhaphidura nov. gen. 



E. W. a t e s , Handbook to the Birds of Brit. Burmah Bd. 2 p. 6. 



Typus: Acanthylis leucopygialis Blyth. 



Fam. TROCHILIDAE. 



48. Gynanthus gris eiventris. 



L. Taczanowski Proc. Z. S. London 1883 p. 72. _ 



C. supra viridis, fronte longissirae squamosa, splendidissima; 

 subtus totus pallide cinereus, gula splendide caerulea, plumis basi 

 albis; crisso alba; tectricibus alarum dorso concoloribus, campterio 

 albo, remige primo externe albo marginato ; cauda profunde emar- 

 ginata, splendide viridi, rectricibus mediis splendore apicali la- 

 tissime rubro-cupreo ; rectricibus externis cyaneo-nigris viridi ter- 



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