Fig. 2.3.

New Guinean magpie. Right: 62 mm, weight 328 g. Iris very light brown, bill pale slate-blue with a few dark stripes near base on maxilla and a dark tip, legs black. No moult, plumage moderately worn, broad black saddle on the middle of the back, posteriorly bordered by grey; rump and base of tail white; nape white’.16 Left: first adult male known of this race, which unexpectedly was found to have a white back (cf. Mees).17