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Hab. — New Guinea. Northern Australia, Specimen in Mus. Acad. 

 Philadelphia. 



This species is much smaller than T. cinnamotvitms, but resembles 

 it, especially the plumage of that stage described above as supposed to 

 be the younger. Though to be distinguished immediately by their 

 size, this similarity will explain M. Lesson's suspicion that the pre- 

 sent bird is identical with DaceJo raficeps, Cuv. (Lesson, Traite d'Orni- 

 thologie, p. 247, and Manuel d'Ornithologie, II, p. 98), which, how- 

 ever, is not the case. 



At present, we must regard specimens of H. flavirostris, from Aus- 

 tralia, now before us, as identical with others from New Guinea. The 

 former appear to present only the characters of younger birds, having 

 the upper parts rather more decidedly of a green color, including the 

 wings, while those apparently adult, have the wing-coverts and edges 

 of primaries blue. 



The preceding fourteen species include all that have come under 

 our notice, belonging to the genus Todiramphus. 



B. The following species may be considered obscure or erroneously 

 assigned to this genus. 



1. Halcyon varia, Eyton, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1839, p. 101. 



Todiramplius varius (Eyton), Blytb, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1839, p. 101. 



Orig. Desc, — " H. pectore, gala, ventre, strigaque oculos cingenie ferru- 

 gineis ; capite, nucha, et striga a mandihuki inferiore ad capistrum 

 brunneis, singulis pjennis toiniis cwndeis ornatis ; primariis, dorso, 

 scap>ularihusqiie, hrunneis, his externe flavo marginatis, illis macidatis, 

 Tostro flavo, culmine ohscum. Long. tot. 8i unc, rostri 1} >, tarsi iJ^. 

 Native name, Kaing Kaing." 



Mr. Eyton gives the above description in a "Catalogue of a Collec- 

 tion of Birds from Malaya." In a paper entitled " Notices and De- 

 scriptions of various New or Little-known Species of Birds, by Ed. 

 Blyth, Curator of the Asiatic Society's Museum," in the Journal of 



