OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 65 



Mr. E. P. Ramsay, F.L.S., &c, read the following papers : — 



Description of a new species of Pachycephala from Fiji, in the 

 collection of Wm. Macleay, Esq., F.L.S. 



Pachycephala kandavensis. — Sp. Nov. 



Adult, male — The whole of the head, earcoverts, and a narrow 

 cresentic band, widest on the sides, and extending across the chest 

 from the lower earcoverts, jet black ; a narrow collar round the back, 

 widest on the sides of the neck, and a patch joining it to the chest, 

 bright yellow ; the throat, inside the black pectoral band, pure white ; 

 the breast and remainder of the under surface, bright gamboge 

 yellow, of a slightly deeper and duller tint on the abdomen and 

 under tail-coverts ; under surface of the wings dark brown, the 

 margins of the inner webs of the quills towards the base, buffy- 

 white ; the under wing-coverts white tinged with-yellow ; inter- 

 scapular region, back, and remainder of the upper surface yel- 

 lowish olive ; wings blackish-brown, the coverts and scapulars 

 broadly, and the quills narrowly margined with yellowish olive ; 

 tail dark brown above, paler below, the centre two feathers and 

 outer webs of the remainder tinged with olive yellow ; bill black ; 

 legs greyish brown ; iris reddish brown. Total length (exclusive 

 of bill), 5 '5 inches ; wing, 3 - 5 ; tarsus, 1 inch ; tail, 2 - 6 ; bill from 

 forehead, 0*7 ; from nostril, 0*4 ; from gape, - 8. 



The male of this species may be recognised by the narrow line of 

 black across the lower part of the chest, and by its being of a 

 nearly even width throughout ; or, if anything, wider on the sides 

 than in the centre of the chest, and by the large extent of white 

 on the throat. 



Female (Not quite adult*) — Above, olive brown, slightly tinged 

 with olive yellow ; wings and tail blackish brown ; the upper wing- 

 coverts and inner second-aries broadly margined and tipped with 

 rich cinnamon or rufous-brown, the remainder of the quills 

 narrowly margined on the outer webs with the same colour ; a 

 few feathers of the upper tail-coverts, cinnamon brown ; the head, 

 dark brown, washed with cinnamon ; sides of the head, an 



* Shot from the nest, which contained one egg. 



