Identifier: ibis841904brit (find matches)
Title: The Ibis
Year: 1859 (1850s)
Authors: British Ornithologists' Union
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: (London) : Published for the British Ornithologists' Union by Academic Press
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of the head, only the margins of the feathers being white in winter-dress, or the black feathers of the sides of neck partly white in the hybrids O. brandti X 0. penicillata, forming a very incomplete and narrow white band. I. Vinous-red or lilac colour of the nape not extending over the back, which is always distinctly streaked, the shaft-streaks being more or less covered by the adjacent feathers only in the winter-dress. Wing, r( 48o-4-75-4-o5, $ 4-3o-4-00 in.—Hab. Alps of Balkan Peninsula, Caucasus, Persia, and Turkestan. (scriba Bp., 1850; albigula Bp., 1850; larvata Filippi, 1863; pallida et diluta Sharpe, 1890; bal- canica Reichw., 1895; transcaspica Floiicke, 1898; iranica Zarud. & Harms., 190J; oreodroma Ober- hols., 1902.) O. penicillata (Gould), 1837. /. Vinous-red or lilac colour of the occiput and napeextending over the back, which is almost uniform.Wing, c<: 4-45-4-35, 5 4T5-4-05 m.—Hab. Syria andPalestine O. penicillata bicornis Sharpe, 1884. Itis.I904.Pl.IX.
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JG.KeuIema.ns del.etlith. Mui.tern.Bro9.iirrp . EULACESTOMA NIGROPECTUS,^,?. On a rare Passerine Bird from New Guinea. 373 XX VII.— On a rare Passerine Bird from New Guinea.By P. L. Sclater, D.Sc, F.R.S. (Plate IX.) Mr. Walter Rothschild has kindly lent me, from thetreasures of the Tring Museum, a pair of the very curiouslittle Passerine form which was described by Mr. De Vis in1894 under the name Eulacestoma nigropectus, and I hopethat the figures of both sexes of this rare bird, drawn byKeulemans, and the few remarks that I am able to offerupon them, will result in making the species better known toornithologists. The original specimens of this bird, now in the QueenslandMuseum at Brisbane, were obtained by Capt. Armit andMr. Guise during their expedition up Mount Maneao, inBritish New Guinea, in February 1895. An account of theroute of this expedition and of the adventures met with,drawn up by Mr. Guise, will be found in the QueenslandAnnual Report on British New Guinea for 1893-

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