ol2 A. Reich enow und H. Schalow: 



brown. Chin and upper throat pale tawny rufous. Middle of throat 

 white. Breast and remainder of lower surface pure rufous, niore 

 dilute on lengthened tibial plumes and under tail coverts. A few 

 pectoral plumes, with dark brown large terminal drops. Many 

 abdominal plumes, with dark brown elongated central stripes. 

 Back rufous, minutely freckled with brown, each feather with a 

 bold, irregulär, dark brown central stripe. Scapulars like the 

 back, but some of the shorter and outer albescent tawny on outer 

 webs. The dark brown central marks are so arranged that the 

 back, together with the scapulars, appears to have three parallel 

 dark brown stripes running down it. Uropygium and upper tail- 

 coverts rufous brown, with darker shafts. Rectrices brown, minutely 

 freckled with pale rufous, and with eight or niue narrow pale 

 rufous cross bands. Minor and median wing-coverts brown, freckled 

 with rufous, and each with a dark narrow central brown line. 

 Major coverts brown on inner web, freckled with rufous on outer. 

 Quills brown, alternately banded with freckled brown and pale 

 rufous. Tertiaries pure rufous, with traces of dark brown along 

 the shafts. Carpal edge white; wing-lining yellowish white; some 

 of the under carpal coverts rufous. Thigh and tarsal coverts pale 

 rufous and tawny white. 



Hab.: Zamboanga, Island of Mindanao. 

 PLATYCERCIDAE. 



Aprosmicfus callopterus. 



d'Albertis e Salvador i, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova XIV. 

 10. Marzo 1879. p. 29. 



Capite, collo et gastraeo toto rubro-puniceis; interscapulio, 

 uropygio, supracaudalibus et subcaudalibus pulchre cyaneis; scapu- 

 laribus nigris, cyaneo-marginatis ; alis viridibus, remigibus ultimis 

 et tectricibus mediis anterioribus saturatioribus, fere nigricantibus ; 

 tectricibus minoribus, mediis et majoribus dorso proximis laetissime 

 tiavo-viridibus ; cauda superne atro- caerulea, interne nigra; rostro 

 nigro, maxillae basi superne rubra ; pcdibus nigris ; iride flavoaurantia. 



Fem. Viridis, abdomine rubro; uropygio et supracaudalibus 

 laete caeruleis; cauda superne atro-caerulea ; subalaribus viridibus; 

 collo antico et pectore summo olivaceo-viridibus, plumarum margi- 

 nibus rubris; rostro nigro, maxillae basi superne rubescente. 



Long. tot. 0,375; al. 0,195; caud. 0,210; rostri 0.023; tarsi 

 0,020 Mtr. 



Hab.: Fiume Fly (Neu- Guinea). 



Aprosmicfus Broadbenti. 



Sharpe, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. Vol. 3. No, 16. April 1879. 

 p. 313. 



A. similis A. calloptero Salv. et d'Alb. sed minor, occipite 

 nuchaque, ut et interscapuho summo, laete caeruleis, subcaudalibus 

 caerulescenti-nigris, coccineo terminatis distinguendus. Long. t. 14, 

 culm. 1,0, alae 7,6, caudae 8,7, tarsi 0,7. 



Hab.: Neu-Guinea. 



