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whitish, heavily cross-barred with short, narrow, green 

 bars. This is the plumage of the young. 



Chrysococcyx cupreus (Boddaert), the type of Lampro- 

 morpha Vigors, has the adult male bronze-green above 

 and the under surface pure white save for a few green 

 crossbars on the abdomen and under tail-coverts. The 

 adult female has the throat and upper-breast heavily 

 spotted and the abdomen cross-barred with dull green, 

 while the upper-surface is duller. The young have the 

 dull upper-surface of the female and the throat and 

 upper-breast spotted, while the abdomen barring is not so 

 pronounced. 



Chrysococcyx xanihorhynchus (Horsfield), the type of 

 Chalcococcyx Cabanis, has the adult male brilliant purple 

 above, the throat and upper-breast of the same colour, 

 the lower-breast and abdomen white with purple cross- 

 bars. The bill is horn-white and consequently a most 

 striking feature. The adult female is dull bronze-green 

 above, closely cross-barred underneath from chin to 

 vent with dull green bars, and this is also the plumage 

 of the young. 



Chrysococcyx lucidus (Gmelin), the type of Lampro- 

 coccyx Cabanis, has the sexes alike, brilliant bronze- 

 green above and closely cross-barred from chin to vent 

 underneath with bronze-green bars. I have not seen 

 very juvenile specimens of this species, but other 

 writers conclude they are similar to the adult. 



Chrysococcyx basalis mellori subsp. n., the type of 

 N eochalcites , has the sexes alike ; the upper-surface 

 has only a bronze sheen, while the throat is 

 indistinctly striped longitudinally with dull green, the 

 breast and abdomen barred with distant dull green 

 bars. The young, when they leave the nest, 

 have little of the bronze upper-coloration above, but 

 have the under-surface unspotted and unbarred. This 

 must certainly justify the separation of these birds, 

 under the generic Neochalcites, if colour-genera are 

 recognisable. As, at the present time, I only use 

 genera based on structural characters, I can do no 



