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m e l a n o p y r r h u s a n a i s .
Orange-chested Starling.
Sericulus anais. Less. Rev. Zool 1844 r,a a „
( IS S ^ -S d n i e r « P' i p' “’p- 9 p- 349 (185° ) - Id - C»“>pt- K « d . xxxvii. p. 831
H H H i D O P- H K. Gray, Proo. Zool. Sic. 1858, p. 192 1861 c 434 _
N a t Tijdsohr. Nederl. Ind. xxv. p. 234 (1863).—Id. J. f. O. 1864, p. 121
Onohs ? anm, G. K Gray, Gen. B. App, p. il (1849).- Id. Cat. B. New Guinea, pp. 26, 57 (1859)
Pastor ntyrocadm, Cass. Proc. Acad. Nat. Se. Philad 1850 n 68 — P a , o
H U I857’ * * * * * U p - Soc. il. p. 159 (1858).—Salvad. Ann. Mus. C h ic G e n ^
Proc. Zool. SCO.’ lM 5P p 644 1,1 ° rn- PaPuasIa e delle M“‘»oche, li. p. 462 (ISSD.-GnUlenrard,
• " * Z00L * * l862' P- pl- — .863, p. 225.—Finsch, Nen-
Gracula (Melanopyrrhus) mai,, G. R. Gray, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (3), x. p . 473 (1862)
■ — H | W <3>. 1 P- i (1863).. Schleg. Mus. P.-B. Gara«,, p. 98
Ì H . Ma,a“ Jpd S « £ £ P' 18 (1871)- S a ^ *»>■ SOC. 1873, p. 6 ^ 7 ,-
Eulahes anais, G. R Gray, Hand-list Birds, il. p. 19, no. 6276 (1870).
B B B W H W H I S B Guinea, and appears «0 be intermediate between the
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M r W d f! g S° lpt'°U f° r the firSt time- “ ««.“ Panied by an excellent figure by
T h e habitat o f M. anais appears to be North-western New Guinea and Salwati. Mr. Wallace and most
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We transcribe herewith the description given by Count Salvador! in his g rea t work on the - Birds of
B BW I se;ief “ d by him has far exceedad I at - «™ 1 AMU Whole o f the head, throat, back, wing-coverts, and abdomen black, the feathers with broad
margms o f glossy green, some o f them changing to violet-blue under certain lig h ts ; lower throat and
^ B B H H I I °'hre0“S H ■ ad — c em c a l collar o f pale ochreous yellow, produced laterally on both sides o f the head into an ocdpital
■n the H B H I H ° " eS I I B I ye,'0Wi 3 W,lite baud 011 thd
Mackj a bare space round the ey e ; feathers o f the eye,id!
Young Similar to the adult, but with the feathers o f the breast and abdomen regularly margined with
pale yellow i the cervmal collar, rump, and upper tail-coverts paler yellow. % 1 %
lent I us h)! Dr. S ^ L T " " ' " SFCi",e” iU P° Siti0nS' a“d « d™ " * > “ “ « “ I *
[R. B. S.]