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ill-defined line over the eye ; the ear-coverts and sides of the neck, 

 the throat, and all the under-surface, cinnamon brown, a little 

 paler on the throat ; under-surface of the wings, brown, the 

 inner webs of the feathers towards the base, whitish ; under 

 wing-coverts whitish ; margins of the wings below, tinged with 

 cinnamon ; tail below dark brown, ; the tips of the feathers 

 tinged with cinnamon ; bill dark brown paler at the base of 

 the lower mandible ; legs and feet, light brown ; iris, reddish 

 brown. Total length, 5 -5 inches; wing, 3*2; tail, 2*6; tarsus, 

 1 inch ; bill, from forehead, - 65 ; from nostril, 04 ; from gape, - 8. 



This species was found at " Kandavu," frequenting the thickets 

 on the sides of the ranges ; it was observed breeding during the 

 months of September and October, making a small round open 

 nest of grasses and rootlets, lined with finer material of the same 

 nature. 



The only egg procured was taken from a nest, which contained 

 but one, and placed within four feet of the ground in a low 

 bough. The egg is white, blotched largely at the thicker end with 

 jet black, and large irregular shaped blotches of slate colour, which 

 appear beneath the shell ; a few dots of black are scattered over 

 the thin end ; length, 1 inch ; in breadth, - 73. 



Description of a supposed new species of Pachy cephala , from New 

 Britain, proposed to be called— 



Pachycephala oitreogaster.- — Sp. Nov. 



Adult female. — All the upper parts of the head, wings, and tail, 

 rich brown — inclining to rufous brown on the ear-coverts, sides of 

 the face and neck ; and on the shafts and outer webs of the quills* 

 tips of the upper wing coverts, and scapulars ; inner webs of the 

 quills blackish-brown ; all the under-surface whitish ; the feathers 

 on the throat and upper part of the chest margined with bro wn 

 giving to these parts a burred appearance ; sides of the breast and 

 the flanks tinged with brown, the abdomen inclining to citron- 

 colour, and deepening into citron-yellow about the vent and under 

 under-tail coverts ; under surface of the wings and tail light 



