OP NEW SOUTH WALES. 381 



Adult male.— Lores, sides of the head, chin, throat, and the 

 whole of the under surface of the body, under and upper tail 

 coverts, bright yellow ; across the chest a ( lunate 1 J* spot of black; 

 crown of the head, sides and back of the neck, and the sides of 

 the chest, olive yellow ; back brown, washed with olive yellow ; 

 tail blackish brown, the base white, and all (?) the feathers more 

 or less tipped with white ; margins of the outer webs, towards the 

 base, yellow ; wings brown, darker on the secondaries and upper 

 coverts, primaries narrowly edged with yellow on the outer webs, 

 the coverts and seconda\-ies rather broadly margined with whitish 

 and edged with yellow on the outer webs, secondaries margined 

 with white at the tips ; under wing coverts whitish, washed with 

 bright yellow like the body ; under surface of the quills light 

 brown, the inner webs towards the base fading into silvery white ; 

 legs and bill blackish brown. 



Total length, 4-3 in.; wing, 2-4 in.; tail, 1*65 in.; tarsus, 0-7 in.; 

 bill, from forehead 0-5, from nostril 0-3, from gape 0.6. 



Adult female. All the upper surface dark brown ; feathers on 

 head mesially shaded with blackish brown ; upper and under tail- 

 coverts yellow, not so bright as in the male ; a slight tinge of 

 yellow on the abdomen, Hanks, and under wing-coverts ; the 

 remainder of the under surface dull white, tinged with brown on 

 the sides and chest ; no pectoral spot ; wings above blackish, 

 brown on the secondaries, dark brown on primaries, which are 

 tinged with yellow along the margin of the outer webs ; wing- 

 coverts tipped with dull white tinged with yellow, secondaries 

 tipped and margined with white ; tail blackish brown, the tips 

 and the base white, margins of the outer webs edged with yellow ; 

 legs dark brown ; bill brown, whitish at base of lower mandible. 



Total length, 4'1 ; wings, 2.3 ;. tail, 1*6 ; bill, 0-5 ; tarsus, 0-7. 



Hab. Norman River, Gulf of Carpentaria. From Mr. Gulliver's 

 collection. 



* Many of the feathers being lost from the chest, the exact shape of the 

 pectoral mark cannot be ascertained in this specimen. 



