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tipped with black. Legs and feet black; bill blue-black, whitish 

 on the tips and margins of the mandibles. T. 1. about 7 inches; 

 wing 3,5; tail 3,5; tarsus 0,8; bill from forehead 0,95. 

 Hab.: Ugi, Solomon Islands. 



86. Rliipidura Macgillivrayi. 



R. B. Sharp e. P. Z. S. 1881 No. III p. 789 pl. LXVII. 



Ad. $ General colour above brown, the head dull ashy grey; 

 least wing-coverts like the back; median and greater coverts 

 dusky brown, tipped with white, forming a double band across the 

 wing; primary-coverts and quills dusky brown, the secondaries 

 externally margined with fulvous, the innermost with white; upper 

 tail-coverts blackish ; tail-feathers blackish, all but the centre ones 

 with white shafts and very narrowly tipped with ashy whitish, 

 which extends a little way down the end of the inner webs in the 

 outermost feathers, the last tail-feather being whitish on the outer 

 web, brown towards the end ; lores dusky blackish ; ear-coverts and 

 feathers below the eye ashy brown; above the lores a spot of dull 

 white and changing to ochreous buff above the eye; chin and fore 

 part of cheeks dull white, the hinder cheeks ochraceous buff like 

 the under surface of the body, becoming deeper on the thighs and 

 ligbter on the under tail-coverts ; under wing-coverts and axillaries 

 ochraceous bufi; quills dusky brown below, light ashy along the 

 edge of the inner web. Tot. length 6,2 inches, culm. 0,45; wing 

 2,9; tail 3,5; tars. 0,7. 



Ad. $ Similar to the male in colour. Tot. length 6,2 inches; 

 culm. 0,5; wing. 2,7; tail 3,4; tars. 0,7. 



Hab.: Lord Howe's Island. 



87. Siphia obscura. 



R. B. Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1881 No. III p. 789. 



Ad. General colour above olive greenish, inclining to lighter 

 olive on the rump and upper tail-coverts; quills light olive-brown, 

 edged with the same brighter olive as the rump; wing-coverts 

 dark olive-green like the back; quills dusky brown, externally 

 olive-green, the primaries edged with brighter olive; crown dark 

 slaty grey, with a slight wash of olive green ; lores dusky blackish, 

 surmounted by a white streak from above the ear-coverts to the 

 bare of the bill ; ear-coverts dusky ash-brown with whitish shaft- 

 lines; cheeks and under surface of body isabelline-brown, a little 

 whiter on the throat and centre of the breast; thighs deeper and 

 more tawny; under wing-coverts and axillaries olive, the latter 

 with a tinge of brighter olive-yellow ; quills dusky brown below, 

 fulvescent along the edge of the inner web. Tot. length 5 inches, 

 culm. 0,55; wing 2,4; tail 2,25; tarsus 0,9. 



Hab.: Borneo. 



Farn. LANIIDAE. 



88. Cyclorhis altirostris. 



0. Salvin, Ibis Vol. 4 No. 15. July 1880 p. 352. 



Supra olivacea, capite summo ferrugineo^ capitis lateribus 



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