OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 49 



The female appears to be unknown to Mr. Gould, a description is 

 therefore given. The female has the head and neck slaty grey ; 

 back, upper tail coverts, and the basal half of the tail, dark olive 

 green ; apical half black, tipped with brown, circle surrounding the 

 eye, light brown ; throat dull white, freckled with grey ; "chest 

 dark brown ; the remainder of the under surface, and under tail 

 coverts, deep yellow lightly washed with buff ; basal half of the 

 bill dark brown, becoming almost black towards the tip ; legs and 

 feet bluish lead colour ; irides brown. Total length, 6- inches ; 

 wing, 3 - 35 ; tail, 2'7 ; tarsi, - 9 ; bill from forehead, 0-65 ; bill 

 from gape, 0.8. 



In his Handbook, Mr. Gould says : — -" Whenever this sex is 

 collected it will be found to bear a very general resemblance to the 

 females of P. gutturalis, and P. glaucura." 



I thought a description woidd be acceptable, as it is so totally 

 different from either. 



This species appears to have a pretty wide range ; we first 

 fell in with it at Cape Grenville, afterwards at Cape York, and 

 throughout all the wooded Islands in Torres Straits. 



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26. — Pachycephela robusta. N. Sp. 



All the upper surface slaty grey, gradually passing into olive 

 green, the green becoming more distinct on the rump and upper 

 tail coverts ; throat lightish grey, almost white, each feather with 

 a transverse line of a darker colour ; chest brown, slightly tinted 

 with yellow ; abdomen, flanks, and under tail coverts, pale yellow, 

 lightly washed with buff ; primaries blackish brown, margined on 

 their outer webs with light grey ; secondaries of the same colour, 

 mai-gined with rufous ; tail above olive green, beneath of a lighter 

 hue, and showing indistinct wavy transverse fasciae ; bill dark 

 brown ; legs and feet blackish brown. Total length, 6-8 inches ; 

 wing, 3-4 ; tail, 2-8 ; tarsi, 0*9 ; bill from forehead, 0-75. 



This bird bears a very general resemblance to the female of 

 P. melanura, but it is altogether a nmch larger and more robust 

 species, and the bill is also very much larger. 



One female, shot at Cape York in a dense mangrove swamp, 

 and the only one seen. 



