468 CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE ZOOLOGY OF NEW GUINEA, 



PlEZORHYNCIIUS MELANOCEPHALUS, Sp. 110V. 



(? Piezorhynchus vidua, Trist.) 



The whole of the head and throat black, with slight blue -black 

 gloss ; back, wings, and tail, black ; the three outer feathers of 

 the latter tipped with white ; greater coverts of the wings white, 

 slightly margined at the tips with black ; lesser coverts white, 

 margined with black ; a few of the scapulars margined or tipped 

 laterally with white ; a broad white band across the nape, tipping 

 the black ear-coverts with white ; uropygius and upper tail- 

 coverts, white ; chest and remainder of the under surface white ; 

 margins of the wings below, black ; under surface of the quills, 

 blackish; bill black ; legs, lead-color; total length, 5*5 to 6 in. ; 

 wing, 265 ; tail, 2-7 ; tarsus, 0*7. 



" £ iris, feet, and bill, Hack; "MaMra Saviour, San Christoval, 

 May 2\st, 1879."— (Richards. J 



Sab. San Christoval, Solomon Islands. 



Sericornis ? eulvi-pectoris, sp. nov. 



General color above earthy-brown, almost black on the head 

 and lores, browner on the outer webs of the tail ; wings, blackish- 

 brown, brown on the outer webs ; all the under surface, 

 f ulvescent, almost white on the throat, deepening into rich fulvous 

 (or light cinnamon) on the chest, breast, and flanks, and under 

 tail-coverts ; the centre of the abdomen white ; under wing-coverts 

 like the breast ; bill, dark brown above, lower mandible whitish ; 

 legs, light-yellow ; total length, 4*4 ; wing, 2*4 ; tail, 1*9; tarsus, 

 0-95; bill. 0'7. 



I have placed this bird provisionally in the Australian genus 

 Sericornis, as coming nearest to that genus ; the description is 

 taken from what I believe to be a young bird. Only one 

 specimen was obtained. 



Hah. Goldie Eiver, 30 miles inland. 



