sides of body, flanks, thighs, and under. tail-coverts chestnut, glossed with lilac
chestnut, the outer lower coverts buffy white, as also

throat laterally cobalt ;
on the sides of the upper breast ;
the edge of the wing ; lower surface of quills
light indigo, waved across with dusky lines under cert

under wing-coverts
dark brown, edged with rufous along the inner web; tail

ain lights, all the feathers rather broadly tipped

with white.
Total length 5:2 inches, culmen 0:65, wing 2°25, tail 2°35, tarsus 0°95.
The present species seems to be confined to North-western New Guinea.

Dorey, D’Albertis at Ramoi; and it was obtained in Salwatti by Mr. Bruijn’s hunters.
nt a male and a female, of the natural size, drawn from specimens lent

Wallace procured it at

The figures in the Plate represe
to me from the Dresden Museum under the direction of Dr. Meyer.