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MR. E. E. SHAEPE ON THE 



brought by him, and had determined the bird to be the Eupetes ajax 

 of Temminck. On this point the Count will be better informed 

 than myself, as he has examined the type in the Leiden Museum, 

 which I have not been able to do. We may tlierefore believe in 

 the identity of the species now sent from South-eastern New 

 Gruinea, notwithstanding the difference in the plate of Temraiuck's 

 work and the specimens now^ sent. The Leyden bird, however, is 

 said to be a female; so that the differences may be merely sexual. 

 The bird is certainly not a Eicpetes, but is a Clndosoma, and is 

 interesting as adding one more Australian typo to the avifauna 

 of New G-uinea. 



The following is a description of Mr. Broad bent's specimen : — 

 General colour above ochraceous brown, rather darker towards 

 the lower back, rump, and upper tail -coverts ; scapulars like the 

 back ; wing-coverts glossy black ; quills blackish brown, externally 

 ochraceous-brown, broader on the secondaries, the innermost of 

 which are almost entirely ochraceous brown ; two centre tail- 

 feathers like the back ; the rest of the tail black, with broad white 

 ends to the outer feathers ; lores, eyebrow, feathers below the 

 eye, and ear-coverts glossy blue-black, forming a broad band of 

 black, which runs from the base of the nostrils, encloses the eye, 

 and extends down the sides of the neck ; a second broad band of 

 white extends from the base of the lower mandible, aloug the sides 

 of the face, including the basal part of the ear-coverts, down the 

 sides of the neck ; cheeks, sides of throat, as well as the entire 

 throat, fore neck, and chest glossy blue-black ; sides of body from 

 the sides of fore neck downwards clear orange-rufous, the lower 

 flanks ochraceous brown ; centre of the breast and abdomen white, 

 separated from the orange-rufous sides of the body by a line of 

 black, the feathers bordering the two lines of colour being exter- 

 nally white and internally black, the plumes of the breast where 

 they adjoin the white of the underparts being black with white 

 tips ; thighs olive-brown ; under tail-coverts mottled with white 

 and black, the inner web beiog white and the outer one black ; 

 edge of wing black ; under wing-coverts and axillaries white, with 

 more or less concealed black bases ; quills ashy below. Total 

 length 9-2 inches, culmen 1, wing 3-9, tail 4, tarsus 1-35. 



23. Eupetes nigeicrissus, Salvacl Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. 

 ix. p. 36 ; Bamsay, I. c. p. 277. 



The four specimens sent by Mr. Broadbent differ from E. cce- 



