(472 ) 



P. I. meeki Hurt. 1898 : Rossel Island, Lonisiades. 



[Wing about 82 mm. ; back much more blackish, slate-colour or slaty grey, 

 the black therefore less sharply defined ; sides of chest grey ; middle of abdomen 

 white ; bill longer. ? : above brownish grey ; throat creamy white ; grey prae- 

 pectoral collar ; abdomen creamy buff.] 



P. I. tianduana Hart. 1901 : Tiandu Island, Little Key group. 



[Wing, 6 ad., about 83 — 86 mm. ; back brownish slate or brownish grey ; 

 sides of chest pale creamy grey ; abdomen rich cream-colour ; bill stronger. 

 ? : above brown ; throat and rest of underside with deep brown shaft-stripes ; no 

 greyish praepectoral collar.] 



P. 1. arctitorquis Scl. 1883 : Tenimber Islands. 



[Wing, <S ad., about 78 — 80 mm. or more ; back brownish grey, not as dark 

 as in P. 1. tianduana ; sides of chest as in tianduana ; praepectoral collar not so 

 wide ; abdomen creamy ; bill as in tianduana. ? : like that of tianduana, but 

 more rufous above.] 



P. I. kebirensis A. B. Meyer, 1883 : Babber and Dammer Islands. 



[Exactly like P. I. arctitorquis, but the female has the crown not cinnamon, 

 but ashy grey ; the males do not seem to differ.] 



More material in fresh plumage is desirable, in order to find out how the males 

 of Itebirensis differ from those of arctitorquis. The birds from the other South-west 

 Islands (Moa, Dammer, Roma) seem to be the same ; but the few examples before 

 us from Moa are rather small, and the females from Roma are rather greyish 

 above ! Cf. Noc. Zool. 1904. pp. 212, 213. 



154. Pachycephala nioroka Rothsch. & Hart. 



Pachycephala morolca Rothsch. & Hart., Nov. Zool. 1903. x. p. 106 (Moroka district, British New 

 Guinea). 



3 6S, 1 ?, Owgarra, Angalmnga River, November 1904, January 1905. (Nos. 

 A 1839, 1882, 2003, 2035.) " Iris dark brown, bill and feet black." 



In Nov. Zool. 1903 we described this species from a single nnsexed specimen. 

 We have uow the pleasure of recording four more examples from the Upper 

 Augabuuga River. 



The upper surface is olive-brown ; lores and crown to nape slate-grey ; 

 ear-coverts brown with paler shafts ; quills deep brown, primaries narrowly edged 

 with brownish grey, secondaries with wider olive-brown outer edges ; tail olive- 

 brown ; throat white with dark grey mottlings to the tips of the feathers ; .across 

 the chest an ill-defined wide pale greyish brown band ; abdomen, under wing- 

 coverts, and inner edges of wings white. The sexes are alike : the wings of the 

 males about 83 — 85, that of the female nearly 88 mm. long. 



155. Pachycephala griseiceps griseiceps Gray. 

 Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 105. 



3J?, Avera, Aroa River, February, March 1903. (Nos. A 328, 457, 461.) 

 ¥, Upper Aroa River, 27. xii. 1904., (No. B 112.) 



