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feebly dentated by the white ; quill tips not edged with white 

 other than the third, and that slightly so. The pigment of the 

 plumage as a whole is dark-brown. Bill blackish; culmen, 0*8 in. 

 c. Adult, in which there is little white throughout the 

 plumage, the feathers not being edged with white, and some of 

 the quills and rectrices alone dentated with white; plumage 

 generally light-brown. Bill blackish ; culmen, 085 in., and 

 broader at nostrils than in a or b. 



Chalcococcyx basalis, Horsf. 



Chrysococcyx lucidus, Gould, Bds. Austr., fol. vol. IV., pi. 89. 



Chalcococcyx basalis, Shelley, Brit. Mus. Cat. Bds., vol. XIX., 

 p. 294; Hall, "Key Bds. Austr.," p. 59. 



An egg only of this bird was sent to me, but subsequently I 

 was personally able to collect the species just N.E. of Albany. 



Misocalius palliolatus, Latham. 



Chcdcites osculans, Gould, Bds. Austr., fol. vol. IV., pi. 88. 

 Misocalius palliolatus, Shelley, Brit. Mus. Cat. Bds., vol. XIX., 

 p. 279; Hall, "Key Bds. Austr.," p. 59. 

 Skin, adult female, 4/9/ ; 98. 



Halcyon pirrhopygius, Gould. 



Halcyon pyrrhopygia, Gould, Bds. Austr., fol. vol. II., pi. 22. 



Holy con pyrrhopyyius, Sharpe, Brit. Mus. Cat. Bds., XVII., 

 p. 258 ; Hall, " Key Bds. Austr.," p. 57. 



The adult skin dated December, 1896, has a pale-green head 

 and a clear white nuchal collar. 



Psephotus multicolor, Temm. 



Psephotus multicolor, Gould, Bds. Austr., fol. vol. V., pi. 35 ; 

 Salvadori, Brit. Mus. Cat. Bds., vol. XX., p. 566; Hall, "Key 

 Bds. Austr.," p. 67. 



a. Skin, adult female, ll/12/'98. 



b. Skin, adult male, ll/12/'98. 



c. Skin, adult male, 15/3/'99. 



a, b, and c indicate three distinct phases of the plumage : — 

 {a) Primaries, secondaries, their coverts, the tail and its 

 coverts very much decomposed. 



(b) General plumage above olive, as well as upon the throat 

 and chest ; breast light-green ; abdomen lemon-green ; shoulder 

 feathers dull-red. 



(c) The olive of (6) is bright-green ; abdomen orange and 

 yellow ; shoulder feathers bright-yellow, illustrating xantho- 

 chroism. 



Specimen (b) would need to go through another moult to 



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