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inhabit New Holland, and the adjacent isles. Their 

 habits are noisy and voices shrill. They pursue 

 small birds. 



* * Bill with a distinct ridge, which extends up the fore- 

 head ; wings rounded. The sixth feather the largest. 



Paradisea Viridis, Gm. P. Chalybea, Lath. PI. Enl. 

 t. 634. Vail. O. A. t. 



Blue-green ; head silky-black ; woolly ; back, rump, 

 belly, and tail, shining steel black. New Guinea, 

 Papua, 



* * Bill without any ridge, surface nearly flat. Wing 

 moderate. Fourth or fifth quill longest. 



Barita Anaphonensis, Tem. PI. Col. 



Blackish ash ; upper wing coverts, tips of quills, and 

 tail-feathers, white; tail not graduated, as said by 

 Cuvier. His bird was in moult. Oceania. 



Coracias Strepera, Lath. White, Jour. Zool. Misc. 

 t. 86. Vail. O. P. t. 24. 



Wing with a Avhite spot at the base of wing and tail 

 white. Jun. reddish beneath. Oceania, 



Coracias Tibicen, Lath. 



Black ; nape, wing-coverts, vent, and tail, white, latter 

 black-tipt. Oceania, 



Coracias Varia, Lath. PI. Enl. t. 628. 



Black above ; loins, rump, and upper tail-coverts, 

 white; tail equal black, white- tipt. Philippines. 



