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h" . Upper surface mottled with ashy whitish or white tips or bars at the end of the 
feathers; throat and sides of body perfectly uniform. 
Head uniform ; the whitish tips to the inner secondaries not very strongly 
pronounced 
d 3 . Head mottled with silvery whitish tips to the feathers; the whitish tips to the 
wing-coverts and secondaries very strongly pronounced 
b. Crown of head golden orange ; under surface of body chrome-yellow 
XIII. iELURGEDUS. 
Ailurosdus, Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 213 (1850) 
Range. Australia, New Guinea, Salawati, Jobi, Waigiou, Batanta, Aru Islands. 
Key to the Species. 
a. Crown of head mottled ; ear-coverts black ; tail-feathers tipped with white. 
a'. With large ovate spots of sandy buff or fawn-colour extending over the hind-neck 
and upper mantle. 
a". Under surface of body scaly, the feathers edged and spotted at the tip with 
dark green. 
a 3 . Nape spotted like the head 
b 3 . Nape black 
b". Under surface of body more uniform, not margined with dark green 
b'. Hind-neck and upper mantle mottled with greyish centres to the feathers, with 
dusky blackish edges 
b. Crown of head uniform green; ear-coverts green, mottled with dusky black ; tail- 
feathers tipped with white 
c. Crown of head uniform brown or ochreous-brown, not green. 
c. Spots on the under surface large ; throat white, distinctly spotted with black. 
c" . Crown of head olive-brown 
cl". Crown of head ochreous-brown 
cl' . Spots on the under surface very small, the throat white, with only a few black 
dots ; crown of head blackish brown 
XIV. SCENOPCEETES. 
Scenopceus, Ramsay, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 591 
Scenoposetes, Coues, Auk, viii. p. 115 (1891) 
Tectonornis, Sharpe, Monogr. Parad. pt. i (1892) 
Range. N.E. Australia. 
5. nuchalis. 
6. orientalis. 
7* lauterbachi. 
Type. 
JE. viridis. 
1. melanotis. 
2. jobiensis. 
3. arfakianus. 
4. melanocephalus. 
5. maculosus. 
6. viridis. 
7- buccoides. 
8. geislerorum. 
9. stonii. 
Type. 
s', dentirostris. 
). dentirostris. 
). dentirostris. 
