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. 
SYNONYMY 
Gennaeus edwardsi Oustalet, Bull. Mus. Paris, 1896, p. 316 (n. sp. Kuang-tri, Annam); Oustalet, Arch. Mus. 
Paris (4), I. 1899, pl. 10 (figure) ; Ghigi, Arch. Zool. Ital., I. 1903, p. 325 (Relation to szzhoet); Ghigi, Mem. Acc. 
Sci. Bologna (6), VI. 1909, p. 260 (in genus Hzerophasis, with swinhoii ; Beebe, Zoologica, I. No. 17, 1914, p. 320; 
Baker, Jour. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., XXIII. 1915, p. 657. 
