. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 10. OEEOCHARIS. 53 Total length 4-5 inches, culmen 0-55, -wing 2-65, tail I'To, tarsus 0-85. Hah. Bow or Harp Island, Low Archipelago. a. [?] Ad. sk. Bow Island {Dr. Hinds). Zoological Society. (Type of species.) 10. OEEOCHARIS. Typo. Oreocliaris, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Gciwv. vii. p. (1875) O. arfaki. Cliloromyias, Ousiakt, Bull. Assoc. France, 18S0, p. 172 . 0. Bill and head of Creocharis arfaJcL Ranr/e. New Guinea. 1. Oreocharis arfaki. Pai-us P arfaki, Meyer, Sits. Isis Dresd. 1875, 1st April; id. Mitth. Zool. Mus. Ih-esd. i.
. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 10. OEEOCHARIS. 53 Total length 4-5 inches, culmen 0-55, -wing 2-65, tail I'To, tarsus 0-85. Hah. Bow or Harp Island, Low Archipelago. a. [?] Ad. sk. Bow Island {Dr. Hinds). Zoological Society. (Type of species.) 10. OEEOCHARIS. Typo. Oreocliaris, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Gciwv. vii. p. (1875) O. arfaki. Cliloromyias, Ousiakt, Bull. Assoc. France, 18S0, p. 172 . 0. Bill and head of Creocharis arfaJcL Ranr/e. New Guinea. 1. Oreocharis arfaki. Pai-us P arfaki, Meyer, Sits. Isis Dresd. 1875, 1st April; id. Mitth. Zool. Mus. Ih-esd. i. p. 8 (1875); Gould, B. New Guinea, iv. pi. 13 Oreocharis stictoptera, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic, Genov. Tii. p. 939 (1875). Oreocharis arfaki, Salvad. op. cit. xii. p. 333 (1878), xvi. p. 70 (1880); id. Orn. Bupuasia etc. ii. p. 289 (1881) ; Sharpe, Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xvi. p. 486 (1882); Salvad. Orn. Papuasia, iii. App. p. 540. Chloromyias laglaizei, Oust. Bull. Assoc. France, 1880, p. 173. Adult male. General colour above olive-green, with a slight gloss of steel-green ; wing-coverts like the back, the greater series rather more yellowish green externally ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts black, narrowly edged with dull green ; quills black, externally edged with green, yellow on the primaries, tlie inner secondaries with a large spot of "bright yellow at the end of the outer web; upper tail- coverts greenish grey ; tail-feathers blackish, washed with greenish grev on the edges ; crown of head glossy blue-black as far as the occiput, which is green as well as the nape; lores, eyelid, cheeks, and sides of neck blue-black ; the lower edge of the eyelid, feathers below the eye, and ear-coverts bright golden yellow ; throat and fore neck blue-black ; remainder of under surface of the body from the fore neck downwards rich golden yellow, with a longitudinal patch of ruddy chestnut down the centre of the body ; thighs black ; axillaries bright golden yellow ; under wing-cov
Size: 2374px × 1053px
Photo credit: © The Book Worm / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., 1885, bookcentury1800, bookdecade1880, bookpublisherlondon, bookye
