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21. (?) Pseudogerygone conspicillata (Gray). 



Three specimens of a Pseudogeryrjone from Fergusson Island agree best, of all the 

 species rej)resented in the British Aluseum at present, with P. conspieillata, from which 

 they seem hardly separable at all, though the flanks are a little more washed with 

 rufous olive. They are above olive-brown, below whitish with an olive-hrowu or rufous 

 olive wash, strongest on the breast and sides of body. Kasal plumes whitish, feathers 

 in front of the eye dusky. Under wing-coverts white. Wing oi females 52 — 53 mm., 

 of ')nnle 55 mm. Rectrices with blackish subterminal spots and with rather indistinct 

 whitish sjiots on the tips of the inner webs of the outer rectrices. Feathering of the 

 eyelid white above and below. " Iris red." These birds also resemble very much a 

 specimen of P. brunneipectus in the British Museum, but the colour is not exactly 

 the same. In the Tring Jluseum is also a skin shot near Cedar Bay in North 

 Queensland by JMr. Meek on January IGth, 1894. It is marked male. Except a 

 slightly paler general colour, which may be due to its being in a somewhat worn 

 plumage, and more di.stinct whitish spots on the inner webs of the outer four pairs of 

 rectrices, I cannot see any differences. If the sex is right the wing, measuring only 

 51 mm., would also be shorter. This should be P. maf/nirostris tiould, but it has 

 also white feathers roimd the eye, and Sharpe's supposition that they are absent in 

 P. magnirostris (see his " Key ") seems to be wrong. 



I repeat that my specimens agree best with P. conspicillata, but I am somewhat 

 doubtful whether P. consjjicilhda,, hrunneipectus, and magnirostris are specifically 

 separalsle. 



Nests were found in January. They are hanging from a twig, like sunbirds' nests, 

 and have a lateral entrance nearer the top. The eggs, three in number, are without 

 gloss, reddish white with small brownish red spots, many of them of ver\' minute size, 

 but one is pure white with only a few red spots. The reddish ones measure IGw : 13, 

 17-3 : 12-6, the white one 17-4 : 129 mm. 



Nests of the bird from Cedar Bay are much like the one from Fergusson Island, 

 but more pointed at the bottom, the eggs more reddish and more plentifully marked 

 with rufous little spots. They measure from 17 : 12 to 18 : 12-3 and 17-5 : 12-5 mm. 



E. H. 



22. Rhipidura setosa (Quoy & Ciaim.). 



Fergu.sson Island. " Iris black." A ne.st found on December 29th is an unmistak- 

 able Rhipidura nest, viz. a well-built pad, resting on the top of a branch, quite 

 round, measuring 60 mm. across. The two eggs are also at once recognised as 

 Rhijjidura eggs by any one who knows eggs. They are brownish white with a broad 

 ring of dark brown, paler brown, and deeper-lying grey sjiots and patches. They 

 measure 19-5 : 14-3 and 19 : 14-3 mm. E. H. 



23. Monarcha melanopsis (Vieill.). 



Fergusson Island. " Iris black ; bill bluish grey ; legs and feet bluish grey." 



24. Monarcha inornatus (Ciarn.). 

 Troliriand Islands. ? . " Iris black." 



