I N T R 0 D U C T I 0 N.
A«/ to the Spa-ies.
<!. KoitIikkI yell"»-, like tlic eloiigateil crest
b. Forehead lirown ; crown yellow or orange, einling- in a loiii;- crest.
a ' . Crest very long and reacliing to the mantle; throat nnitbrin, with scarcely any pale
streaks
¿ ' . Crest ronnded, not reaching lieyond the liind-neck ; lliroat streaked with pale liiilF .
VIII. CNEMOI'HILUS.
CnemoiMliis, De Vis, Ann. Rep. Brit. New Gninea, p. lil (18!)0)
Ildn^e. S.K. New Gninea.
IX. PHIONODURA.
Prmmtlnra, De Vis, Proe. Linn. See. N. S. Wales, vii. p. 5(i2 (1883)
li/iDge. N.li. Australia.
X. XANTHOMELUS.
Xtiiilhomelns, Bp. Ann. Sci. Nat., Zool. (4) i. p. 132 (1854)
Rnnge. New Guinea.
Ki'H to the Species.
u. Head, neck, and mantle golden orange .
b. Head, neck, and mantle fiery red
XI. SEUICULUS.
Serkiiliis, Swains. Zool. .lourn. i. p. 47() (1825)
Range. Australia.
XII. CHLAMYDODERA.
1. Jtmifroiis.
Caloilera (nee Naum.), Gould, P. Z. S. ISSC, pp. 106, 145
Chlaimjdei a, Gould, B. Austr. part i. (cancelled, I8.'i7)
Cutidera, Agassiz, Nomencl. Zool. lud. Dniv. p. oS (1846, uom. emend.).
Chlmmjdodera, Agassiz, t. c. p. 82 (1846, nom. emend.).
Brmge. Australia, New Guinea.
Kei/ to the Species.
u. ISrcast and abdotiien not yellow ; crown of head not orange.
u . Se.xes alike; no uuclial hand of bright lilac; under tail-coverts fawn-coloured like
the breast; throat pale, longitudinally streaked with dusky ; head and liiud-neck
cuiiforni ; back minutely spotted and streaked with white
b'. Se.fes different; a nuchal baud of bright lilac in the males.
a". Upper surface mottled all over with reddish spots atul bars at tbe eud of the
feathers ; throat aud sides of body with s]>0ts or bars of dusky browu
(fi. Head rufous-brown, varied with blackish edgings and spots; throat ligbt
reddish, with a few dusky margins to the feathers
Head silvery brown, with slightly indicated rufous bars, the bases of the
feathers black; throat and chest fulvescent, mottled with dusky blackish
centres and margins to the feathers
2. inornata.
3. snbdluris.
Type.
C. ìnacffre{/orì.
Type.
P. neivloniana.
Type.
X. aureus.
1. aureus.
"2. urdens.
Type.
meiinus.
Type.
C. maculata.
C. maculata.
1. cermninentris,
2. maculata.
3. occipitalis.
4. guttata.
I N T n 0 D U C T I O N. xi.\
//'. Upper surface mottled with ashy whitish or white tips or bars at ihe eud of the
featbers; throat and sides of body perfectly uniform,
c''. Head uniform ; the whitish tips to the iiuier secondaries not very strongly
pronounced 5, uuchalis.
(P. Head mottlet! with silvei'y whitish tips to the feathers; the whitish tips to the
wing-coverts anil secondaries very strongly jironounced fi. orientalis.
b. Ci'owu of head golden orange ; under surface of body chrome-yellow /. hiutcrhacbi.
XIII. .iiLUIiQiDUH.
Aihirctdus, Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 213 (1850)
liange. Australia, New Guinea, Sahiwati, Jobi, Waigiou, Hatanta, Aru Islands.
Key to the Species.
a. Crown of head mottled; car-coverts black ; tail-feathers tipped with white.
a . With large ovate spots of sandy huff or fawn-colour exteiuliug over the hind-neck
and upper nuuitle.
a". Under surface of body scaly, the feathers edged and spotted at the tip with
dark green.
f / . Nape spotted like the head
Type.
JE. viridis.
i". Nape black
b". Under surface of body more uniform, not margined with dark green
//. Hiud-neck and upper mantle mottled widi greyish centres to the feathers, with
dusky blackish edges
b. Crown of head nuiform green ; ear-coverts green, mottled with dusky black ; tailfeathers
tipped with white
c. Crown of head uniform brown or oelireons-brown, not grecu.
c'. Spots on the under surface large ; throat white, distinctly spotted with black.
c ' . Crown of head olive-brown
d". Crown of bead ochreous-brown
(V. Spots on tbe uiuler surface very small, the throat wliite, with only a few black
dots ; crowu of head blackish brown
1. mehiiiotis.
2. jobicusis.
'i. arfalcianus.
4. ìtìclanocephalus,
0. waeulosus.
f). mridis.
7- buccoides.
8. geislerorum.
9. stomi.
XIV. SCENOPCEETES.
Ramsay, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 591
Scenopcsetes, Coues, Auk, viii. p. 115 (1891)
Trctonorins, Sharpe, Monogr. Parad. pt. i (1892)
Range. N.E. Australia.
Type.
5. denlirostris.
S. de.ntiroslris.
S. dfintiro.ifris.