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113. Pachycephala oi-pheus Jard. 



Pachyiephala orpheus Jardine, Contr. Oni. 1349 p. 120 pi. 30 ( ? , typical locality Timoi'. 

 Finsch, Not. L. M. xxii. p. 2G6 (Wetter). 



4 c?<?, ? ?, 1 without sex stated, 1 (? albinistic var., Wetter, September, 

 October 1902. (Nos. 5514—5510, 5627—5632, 5725, 5866 (albino). 



" Iris blackish Iji-hwii (dark cho('olate, dark brownish red), feet blackisli, bluish 

 or ashy grey, bill dull black, base below pale in younger liirds." The albino is a 

 sonaewhat pretty bird. Upperside white, with a few brownish grey feathers, outer 

 webs of remiges and scapulars tinged with yellow. Lower rump, upper tail-coverts 

 and tail rich deep yeliow. Breast and abdomen creamy buff, flanks tinged with 

 yellow. " Iris chocolate-red, feet dark plumbeous, bill black," therefore not a true 

 albino. 



A good series in fresh plumage might show that the Wetter form is not quite 

 typical orplieus. The back is somewhat less greenish, more brownish, the crown 

 lacks the greyish ashy tinge, the upper tail-coverts are more tinged with a sort of 

 orange-yellow. As, however, most of our specimens are in worn plumage, and we 

 have not a good series from Timor, these difterences may not be of any systematic 

 value. 



114. Pachycephala par spec. nov. 



Supra olivascente-brunnescens, supracaudalibus rufescentibns, viridi tinctis. 

 Remigibus nigro-fuscis, viridi-olivaceo marginatis, secundariarum internarnm 

 pogoniis externis late olivaceo-brunneis. llectricibns viridi-olivaceis, pogoniis 

 e.^ternis flavo-viridi tinctis et marginatis. Guttnre albo, rhachidibus plumarnm 

 brunneo terminatis, gastraeo reliquo luteo, i)lurais tibialibus plus minusve flavo 

 tinctis, subcaudalibus luteo-flavis, subalarilius pallide Inteis. Ko.stro nigro, pedibns 

 plumbeis. Al. S, 93-94, ¥, 90-93, cand. 72-74, rostr. ca. 20, metatars. ca. 25 mm. 



This interesting new " Thickhead " belongs to one of those groups in which the 

 sexes are alike, the male being indistinguishable from the female except by a 

 somewhat but very little smaller size. The npjier surface is olive-brown with a 

 faint ashy tinge on the crown, the upper tail-coverts are of a peculiar rufous, with 

 a more or less greenish tinge. The wing is brownish black, the quills externally 

 margined with greenish olive, the inner secondaries with most of the outer webs, 

 the last one over both webs olive-brown. Rectrices greenish olive, the outer webs 

 margined with, and in certain lights entirely yellowish olive-green. The shafts of 

 the rectrices brown above, white below. Chin and throat white, the shaft on the 

 lower throat tipped with brown streaks, the white merging into the buff breast 

 and abdomen. Sides of body deeper buff, chest with dark shaft-stripes. Thighs 

 mostly washed with yellow, under tail-coverts bufly-yellow, under wing-coverts 

 pale buft'. Bill black, feet plumbeous (reddish grey, dirty ashy grey), iris blackish 

 brown or brownish black. 



The young bird is much like the adult, but the wings are more margined with 

 rufous ; throat and breast tinged with yellow, and heavier, and more streaked with 

 blackish brown. 



llab. Roma. 



Type : ¥ , No. 5339, Roma, 9. viii. 1902. H. Kiihn coll. 



Mr. Kiihn, who discovered this' new form on Roma, sent : 



4 cJcJ, 4 ¥ ¥, Roma, July, August 1902. (Nos. 5176 [juv.], 5221, 5316, 5317, 

 5339, 5340, 5369, 5376.) 



