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base, the two centre feathers reddish brown, all tipped and margined 

 with light chestnut, the outer ones to a greater extent than the 

 inner, and having their outer webs all chestnut ; the throat and 

 the whole of the under surface of the body, under wing- and tail- 

 coverts light chestnut, the wing feathers below broadly margined 

 with the same tint on their inner webs, but towards the base 

 only on the primaries ; lores black, sides of the head and ear- 

 coverts light chestnut margined with lead-blue, remains of a 

 faint line of buff over the eye, but not extending beyond it ; eye- 

 lashes buff. Total length 9*5 ; wing 4*7, tail 4*4, tarsus 0*9 ; bill 

 from forehead 1 inch, from nostril 0*7, from gape 11 ; bill, legs 

 and feet, black. 



Female. — The female differs only in being of a much lighter 

 tint on the under surface, and duller above, and in having a well 

 defined line of buff extending from the nostril above the lores 

 and eyes to the back of the head ; the ear-coverts are washed 

 with buff. 



Young male. — Of those specimens apparently young males, the 

 under surface is nearly as dark as the adult male above 

 described ; one has the throat and whole of the under surface of 

 the body barred with transverse wavy lines of blackish, generally 

 two lines on each feather ; in another more adult these lines are 

 reduced to triangular shaped dots. The under mandible horn- 

 brown at the base, the upper blackish, the legs and feet are of a 

 bluish-grey. The measurements are about the same in all the 

 specimens, the tail in one, being only 4*5 inches. 



This is I believe the Geblepyris schisticeps of Hombron and 

 Jacquinot (Voyage au Pole Sud., pi. X., Jig. 1), and my only 

 excuse for redescribing it here is, that the young only was pre- 

 viously known, Dr. P. L. Sclater refers to a specimen (" Bdolio- 

 soma, sp. inc. $ "), in his notes on Mr. Brown's collection from 

 New Ireland (P. Z. S., 1877, p. 101), but if I remember rightly 

 this was a young of the present species. 



Hab. Duke of York Islands and New Ireland. 



I trust the above descriptions, taken from a fine series in the 

 Australian Museum, will prove of some use to Ornithologists. 



