EDWARD'S KALEEGE 77 



purer metallic blue posteriorly. The most striking difference lies in the fringe. 

 While a broad, disintegrated fringe exists on the mantle, it is hardly apparent, but 

 on the lower back, rump and tail-coverts the fringe becomes convex, reflecting the 

 light from a different angle. So although the entire feather is actually shining blue, 

 a side view shows the convex portion of the tip as deep velvety black, in contrast 

 to the remaining basal and extreme terminal parts. The tail-feathers have a faint 

 bluish lustre on the outer webs, but on the whole appear dull black in contrast to 

 the rump and tail-coverts. 



The wings are rendered distinct by all the coverts being green, with convex 

 fringe, as on the rump. The post-fringeal part is rather less metallic in colour. 

 The illusion of a black centre to the shining green fringe is most persistent, and 

 only when the wing is looked at in perspective, held away from the light, does the 

 green sheen creep over the entire fringe. In this position the post-fringeal part 

 becomes black. The black-centred, green tips of the coverts, arranged in row after 

 row across the median part of the wing, are very conspicuous. The inner second- 

 aries are tinged with a greenish-blue lustre, but the remainder are brownish-black, 

 while the primaries are lighter brown. The belly, thighs, vent and under tail- 

 coverts are dull brownish-black. 



Length (Oustalet), 580 mm.; bill from nostril, 16; wing, 220; tail, 240 ; tarsus, 

 76; middle toe and claw, 51 ; spur, 15 mm. 



Adult Female. — The plumage is very sombre, consisting of various shades of 

 brown, with almost no striking or distinguishing character. The crown is rather 

 dark, paling into an ashy grey on the neck. The entire under parts are unmarked 

 greyish-brown, while the upper plumage is warmer. A mottled fringe is found on 

 the feathers of the back, which on the wing-coverts, secondaries, rump and tail- 

 coverts becomes a fine, dark, inconspicuous vermiculation, evenly distributed over 

 the entire feather. The wing-feathers and scapulars are more rufous than the rump, 

 which tends slightly toward pale buffy. 



The central two or three pairs of tail-feathers are tinged on the outer web with 

 an inconspicuous dark purplish-brown, the remainder of the tail being brownish- 

 black as in the male. 



Bill from nostril, 15 mm.; wing, 200; tail, 193 (feather tips missing) ; tarsus, 68; 

 middle toe and claw, 46. Spur, a sharp flattened nodule. 



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SYNONYMY 



Gennaeus edwardsi Oustalet, Bull. Mus. Paris, 1896, p. 316 (n. sp. Kuang-trf, Annam) ; Oustalet, Arch. Mus, 

 Paris (4), L 1899, pi. 10 (figure) ; Ghigi, Arch. Zool. Ital., I. 1903, p. 325 (Relation to swinhoei) ; Ghigi, Mem. Ace. 

 Sci. Bologna (6), VI. 1909, p. 260 (in genus Hierophasis, with swinhoii ; Beebe, Zoologica, L No. 17, 1914, p. 320; 

 Baker, Jour. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, XXIII. 1915, P- 657- 



