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p. 312. Ceaspedophora magnifica Claudia, subsp. n. 



Differs from C. m. alberti (Elliot) in having the throat and 

 upper breast greener with the feathers rounder, not so pointed. 

 It is also smaller, wing 173 mm. 



Type, a male collected on the Claudie River, North Queens- 

 land on the 8th of October, 1913. 



COPROTHERES POMARINUS NUTCHERI, Subsp. n. 



Female. — General colour of the upper surface brown with 

 pale edges and sometimes white bars to the feathers ; "crown 

 of head rather paler than the back with buff edgings to the 

 feathers ; sides of the crown, nape, and hind neck pale brown 

 with buffy white bars and edgings to the feathers ; upper 

 back and scapulars dark brown the feathers margined with 

 buff ; lesser upper wing coverts dark brown with earth -brown 

 margins to the feathers ; bastard-wing and primary coverts 

 uniform pale brown ; primary and secondary flight-quills 

 dark brown on the outer webs, paler on the inner ones which are 

 white at the base the shafts of the feathers conspicuously 

 white on the outer primaries, most of the secondaries have 

 pale narrow edges at the tips ; lower back almost uniform 

 ash-brown ; rump and upper tail-coverts barred with white 

 or smoky-white ; tail dark brown-white on the basal portion 

 of the inner webs, the two middle feathers only slightly ex- 

 ceeding the lateral ones in length ; a pale eyebrow slightly 

 indicated ; hinder face isabelline with dark narrow shaft lines 

 to the feathers ; throat white with pale brown pear-shaped 

 marks on the middle of the feathers, lower throat similar, 

 but tinged with buff ; fore-neck, sides of neck, upper breast 

 and sides of breast pale brown barred with white or huffy- 

 white like the sides of the body and under tail-coverts ; breast, 

 abdomen, and vent white ; under tail-coverts and axillaries 

 pale brown barred with white ; quills below white at the base 

 and brown on the apical portion like the lower aspect of the 

 tail. Eyes and bill black. Tarsus pale blue black on the 

 back. Toes and webs black. Total length 475 mm. : culmen 



