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blue reflections chiefly on the head, sides of the face, and 

 sides of the body ; a tuft on the sides of the breast,- inner 

 upper wing-coverts, upper back, scapulars and long inner- 

 most secondaries silky white — the upper back and scapulars 

 overlapped by the dark elongated feathers of the mantle ; 

 primary and secondary quills pale brown, some of the inner 

 ones of the latter darker and partially white, outer-webs of 

 primaries edged with faded blue; tail-feathers blue, the 

 outer feathers paler at the tips, with narrow dark obsolete 

 bars which gives a more or less waved appearance ; under 

 wing-coverts dark brown or blackish, paler and inclining 

 to whitish on the greater series like the basal portion of the 

 inner quills below, remainder of the flight-quills on the under- 

 surface hair-brown ; lower aspect of tail dark invisible blue. 

 Bill black ; eyes dark hazel ; legs brownish purple, feet 

 darker. Total length 112 mm. ; culmen 9, wing 44, tail 55, 

 tarsus 19. Collected on Dirk Hartog Island, West Australia, 

 on the 30th of September, 1916. 



Adult female. General colour above rusty earth-brown 

 including the head, back and wings, the sides of the face, 

 sides of the body, thighs and under tail-coverts similar but 

 rather more rufous on the flanks and under tail-coverts, 

 tail pale greenish blue, paler on the outer feathers ; some 

 of the feathers edged with white at the tip ; primary quills 

 edged with hoary-white on the outer-webs ; under wing- 

 coverts buffy-white ; under-surface of flight-quills rusty 

 brown, paler on the basal portion of the inner ones ; lower 

 aspect of tail pale greenish blue. Bill pale reddish, eyes 

 dark hazel, legs and feet purplish flesh. Measurement, 

 about the same, but the tail perhaps longer than in the males 

 Collected on Dirk Hartog Island, West Australia, on the 

 9th of October, 1916. 



DlAPHORILLAS TEXTILES CARTERI, Subsp. 11. 



Adult male. General colour above and below earth-brown 

 tinged with rufous and streaked with white ; the feathers 

 on the top of the head, hind-neck, back, upper wing-coverts, 



