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6. £e Promerops brun de la Nouvelle Guinee, Son. Voy. 164. t. loos. 



NEW GUTNEA Le Promerops brun a ventre ray£, 2?»/\ 02/". vi. p. 471. pi. zz. 



pR Promerops de la Nouvelle Guinee, PL enl. 638* 



Description. '"TpHIS meafures twenty-two inches from the end of the bill 

 Male, to that of the tail. The bill is two inches and a half long,, 



pretty much bent, and of a fhining black colour : the irides are 

 black : the top of the head % and fides, are of the colour of po- 

 Jilhed fteel : the neck and throat are black : the hind part of the- 

 neck, the back and wings, fcapulars, and tail, are brown : the 

 three firft are tinged with brownifh green, and the colour of the 

 three laft paler, except the outer tail feather, which is black on. 

 the inner web the whole length : the bread and under parts of the 

 body are tranfverfely ftriped with black and white, each feather 

 having two black and two white bars on it, with the bafe grey: 

 the wings, when clofed, reach four inches beyond the origin of 

 the tail, which confifts of twelve feathers j the middle ones of 

 which are thirteen inches long, the others growing fhorter by 

 degrees, the fhorteft being only four inches ~ the legs are- 

 black. 

 Female.. In the female the head and neck are brown, but otherwife like 



the male. 

 Pl ace. Inhabits New Guinea. 



* That in the PI. en!, has a. tinge of rufoas on the head 5 but this muft be 

 elteemed a variety, 



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