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except a large spot on the side under the wing, which is bluish-bhick. 

 Bill dark; base of under mandible white; feet dark. Younger. Bill 

 shorter ; head above, scapulars, and wing-coverts, dull green ; head 

 more distinctly striped with white, some feathers of the breast edged 

 with dark brown. Sexes alike. 



Hab. — Australia. Specimen from Mr. Gould's collection in Mus. 

 Acad. Philadelphia. 



The color of the back and rump is a character in this species which 

 distinguislies it from any other, and is present in all of the four speci- 

 mens now before us, and of very nearly the same extent and shade. 

 These specimens are from Mr. Gould's Australian collection, and the 

 species appears to be restricted to that continent. It is beautifully 

 figured in his great work on the Birds of Australia, cited above. 



12. TODIRAMPHUS CORONATDS [MiUler) . 



Ealcijon coronata, MuLL. Verb. Nat. Gesch. I, p. 175 (1844). 

 Akcdo australasia, ViEiLL. Nouv. Diet. XIX, p. 419 (1818), 



Atlas, Ornithology, Plate XIX, fig. 1, Adult, 



Reichenbach, Vollst. Naturg. Plate CCCCXX, fig. 3142. 



Form. — Small, about the size of T. sanctus. Bill moderate ; ridge of 

 upper mandible rounded and rather obscure, that of the under man- 

 dible ascending for about two-thirds of its length ; wing rather short ; 

 second and third quills longest and nearly equal ; tertiaries long ; 

 tail moderate ; tarsus short. 



Dimensions. — Total length (of skin), about seven inches; wing, 

 three and one-fourth inches ; tail, two and a half inches. 



Colors. — Head above and back dull green, the former tinged with 

 blue ; wing-coverts, outer edges of quills, and tail above, blue ; pri- 

 maries and tail beneath brownish-black, the former edged with blue 

 on their outer webs, and with dull yellow on the inner. Wide band 



