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6.— NEW-GUINEA BROWN PROMEROPS. 



Upupa Papuensis, Ind. Orn. i. 279. 

 Merops fusca, Gm. Lin. i. 468. 

 Promerops raye, Ois. dor. i. (Promer.) p. 16. pi. 7. 



brun de la Nouvelle Guinee, Sob. Voy. 164. 1. 100. PL enl. 638. 



— — — a ventre raye, Btif. vi. 471. pi. 22. 



Striped Promerops, Shaw's Zool. viii. 144. 



New-Guinea brown Promerops, Gen. Syn. ii. 694. D' Entrecast. Voy. ii. 204. 



LENGTH twenty-two inches. Bill two inches and a half long, 

 considerably bent, and of a shining black ; the top of the head and 

 sides the colour of polished steel ; neck and throat black ; hind part 

 of the neck, the back and wings, scapulars and tail, brown ; the 

 three first tinged with brownish green ; the breast, and under parts 

 of the body, are transversely striped with black and white, each 

 feather having two black and two white bars on it, with a grey base; 

 the tail consists of twelve feathers, greenish brown, and very cunei- 

 form ; the two middle ones thirteen inches in length, the outer only 

 four ; the wings, when closed, reach about four inches beyond the 

 base; legs black. 



The female differs, in having the head and neck brown, otherwise 

 like the male. 



Some birds have a tinge of rufous on the head, 



Inhabits New Guinea. 



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