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surface and sides of a deep chocolate brown, with a broad, well- 

 defined streak of reddish yellow on each side from the ear to the 

 tail ; the under surface brownish yellow ; sides of the head under 

 the line of the nostril, eye and ear white, or nearly so ; tail irre- 

 gularly and indistinctly barred with yellow and brown, and not 

 compressed. 



Total length 1 foot 10 inches, tail 1 foot 4 inches. 



One specimen from Katow. 



According to the description and plate given by Dr. Gray, of 

 Lophognathiis Gilbertii, from Port Essington, it is very distinct 

 from the present species, and I am not aware that any other 

 species of the genus has hitherto been described. 



41. — Grammatophora jugularis. 



Scales strongly keeled, and acutely pointed, a few very 

 slightly elevated along the middle of the nape ; nostrils small 

 and round, near the centre of a large plate ; head, above brownish 

 yellow, with black edged brown spots and rings, one near the 

 muzzle, two occupying the space between the eyes, and a few 

 small ones about the occiput ; back yellow, with a series of large, 

 black-edged brown patches down the middle ; sides of body and 

 legs of a darker hue, sides of the head and all the under surface 

 white, with 6 longitudinal narrow brown lines indistinct on the 

 body, but distinct under the head, where they join in pairs from 

 the centre outwards ; tail irregularly ringed. 



Total length, 4J inches ; tail, 3 inches. 



Several specimens were taken at Cape Grenville. 



Description of some new species of Birds from New Britain, New 

 Ireland, Duke of York Island, and the South-East coast of 

 New Guinea, by E. P. Ramsay, F.L.S. 



Nasiterna PDSILLA, SP. NOV. 



Nasiterna pusio, Sclater ; Ramsay, P.L.S. of N. S. Wales. Vol. 

 1, pt. 4, p. 393. 



