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a dark grey colour, with a very slight oHvaceous tint on the back, by not 

 having the yellow band on the uropygium, and by the dark ear-feathers. 



" Schlegel has only described the female ; the male was not known till 

 now. I have examined four specimens of this species (three males and one 

 female), collected by D'Albertis near Atam, on the Arfak Mountains." 



Salvadori, Ann. del Mus. Civ. di St. Nat. di Genova, x. p. 135 (1877) : — 



" MaCH^RORHYNCHUS NIGRIPECTUS, Sclllcg. 



" Macheirhynchus nigripedus, Schleg. Nederl. Tijdschr. Dierk. iv. p. 43 ($) (1871). 



" MacheirJiamphus nigripectus, Schleg. op. cit. p. 58 (1871). 



" MacfuBi-orhynchus nigripectus, Salvad. Atti R. Ac. Sc. Tor. x. p. 378 ( d et § ) (1875) ; id. 



Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. vii. p. 768 (1875). 

 " Machcerirhynchus nigripectus, Dawson Rowley, P. Z. S. 1876, p. 414; Gonld, Birds of New 



Guinea, iv. pi. x. (1877). 



" Schlegel has only described the female, which has the upper parts of 

 a dark ash-colour. I have also described the male, which has these parts 

 of a dark, somewhat glossy black colour. Gould, lastly, has given two 

 figures of this species, saying that he believes that they represent male and 

 female ; but in reality these are the same, and only represent the not quite 

 adult female, with the upper parts ashy and with some small black patches 

 on the middle of the breast : the adult female has on the middle of the breast 

 a large black area, as has the male. Gould, who has done me the honour of 

 quoting me, appears not to have paid attention to the sexual differences 

 which I pointed out ! " 



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