NEW SPECIES OF GERYGONE FROM LORD HOWE's ISLAND. G7T 



DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF GERYGONE 

 FROM LORD HOWE'S ISLAND. 



By Dr. E. P. Ramsay, F.R.S.E., &c. 



Gerygone thorpei, S2'). nov. 



The present species, whicli I have dedicated to Mr. J. A. Thorpe 

 its discoverer and one of our most skilled taxidermists, was 

 obtained during a recent trip to Lord Howe's Island. A previous 

 species (G. insularis) is described in the Proceedings of the 

 Linnean Society of N. S. Wales, Vol. III. p. 117, to which the 

 present is allied, but differs in having the whole of the under 

 surface citron-yellow. 



Adult Male. — The whole of the upper surface uniform dull- 

 broAvn with a decided tinge of olive, the margins of the outer 

 webs of the wing-feathers ashy, the whole of the under surface, a 

 narrow indistinct ring round the eye, and the under tail-coverts 

 citron-yellow, tail brown with a blackish sub-terminal band, and a 

 sub-terminal spot of white near the tip, which extends on to both 

 webs on the outermost tail feathers, but is confined to the inner 

 webs on the others, being lost on the central two tail feathers, the 

 outer feather on either side is moreover narrowly margined with 

 white, more distinctly on the outer web near the base, the others 

 similarly marked but less distinctly. Total length, 4*1 inches; 

 wing, 2 inches ; tail, 2 inches ; tarsus, '8 5 inch ; bill, 0'55 inch. 



Hah. — Lord Howe's Island. 



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