34 THE BIRDS OF THE FIJI ISLANDS. 



'' Bill (fig. 1) moderate, straight, slender, at base broader than high; 

 culmen subcarinated, shghtly curved, and the sides gradually compressed to 

 the tip, which is shghtly emarginated ; the gape furnished with a few short 

 bristles. 



"Nostrils basal, lateral; the opening oblong, without membrane, and 

 partly covered by the brush-like erectile frontal feathers. 



" Wings (fig. 3) long, rounded, reaching beyond the middle of the tail ; 

 first primary moderately short, a little longer than half of the second, which 

 is shortened and nearly equal to the eighth ; fourth and fifth quills equal and 

 longest, third scarcely shorter ; projecting point of primaries very short ; 

 quills, especially the secondaries, very broad, with rounded tips ; ten 

 primaries and nine secondaries. 



'' Lamprolia victoria', Finsch, sp. nov. (Plate LXII.) 



" Diagn. Jet-black ; feathers on head and neck tipped, scale-like, with 

 shining steel-blue ; rump, upper tail-coverts, and tail partly silky white. 



" Descr. av. ad. Jet-black; mantle and shoulders velvet-black, the same 

 as the outer webs of the secondaries, which latter in certain hghts exhibit a 

 purphsh gloss ; the feathers on the head, sides of head and neck, on the chin 

 and throat, as well as on the smallest wing-coverts along the cubitus, tipped 

 with oblong apical spots of a rich shining steel-blue, which in certain hghts 

 changes into glossy green ; feathers on the occiput, nape, and hind neck show 

 the same structure, but the apical tips are glossy purphsh violet, changing 

 into steel-blue or green ; lores deep jet-black ; rump and upper tail-coverts 

 shining silky white, the same as the two middle tail-feathers, which are 

 broadly tipped with black, glossed strongly with purphsh violet; the 

 remaining tail-feathers black, and only on the outer web shining silky white, 

 which on the outer feathers is more restricted, showing a gradually broader 

 black apical portion ; the outermost tail-feather uniform black ; bill and feet 

 black. 



