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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 blaekish; culmen, 0:8 in. 
d. ult, in which there is little white thro ughout the 
plumage, the feathers not being edged with white, and some of 
the quills and rectrices alone dentated with white; win 
generally light-brown. Bill blackish; culmen, 0:85 in, and 
broader at nostrils than in a or b. 
CHALCOCOCCYX BASALIS, Horsf. 
Chrysococcya.lucidus, Gould, Bds. Austr., fol. vol. IV., pl. 89. 
Chalcococcyx basalis, Shelley, Brit. Mus. Cat. Bds., vol. SIN. 
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. 
Chalcites oseulans, Gould, Bds. Austr., fol. vol. IV., pl. 88. 
Misocalius PO Shelley, Brit. Mus, Cat. Bds., “val XIX, 
p. 279; Hall, “ Key Bds. Austr.,” p. 59. 
Skin, adult female, 4/9/98. 
HALCYON PYRRHOPYGIUS, Gould. 
Halcyon pyrrhopygia, Gould, Bds. Austr., fol. vol. II., pl. 22. 
Halycon pyrrhopygius, 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., Eu 
Salvadori, Brit. Mus. Cat. Bds., vol. XX., p. 566; Hall, “ Key 
ds. Aus str.,” p- 67. 
a. Skin, adult female, ie: 
b. Skin, adult male, 11/12/’9 
C. Skin, adult male, 15/3/99. 
a, b, and e indicate three distinct phases of the plumage :— 
imaries, secondaries, their coverts, the tail and its 
posed. 
b) Generai plum above olive, as well as upon the throat 
and chest; — ae abdomen lemon-green ; shoulder 
feathers 
(ce) The olive P (b) is bright-green; abdomen orange 
yellow; shoulder feathers bright-yellow, illustrating indios 
oism. 
Specimen (b) would need to go through another moult to 
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