316 XOTES OX SOME RECEXTLY DESCRIBED BIRDS, 



C. polygrammica, Gray, and many others. Lalage humeralis, of 

 Gould takes the older name of Lalage tricolor, the CeMepyris 

 tricolor of Swainson. 



MUSCICAPIDJE. 



Petrceca leggii, Sharpe. 



Under this name I find our common scarlet breasted robin, 

 the Petroica multicolor of Swainson ; {nee. Gmelin). It appears 

 that the true Petroica multicolor of Gmelin, the Red bellied Fly- 

 catcher of Latham, is the Norfolk Island bird, Muscicapaerythrog aster 

 of Latham, and Petroica erythrogasti a of Gould's Bds. Aust., fol. 

 Vol. III., pi. 4. 



Petrceca ramsayi, Sharpe. 



A new species distinguished from Petrceca goodenovii, ( Vig. and 

 Horsfield.) chiefly in having a scarlet instead of a black throat, it 

 comes from Western Australia. 



The name of Petrceca bicolor must be retained for the Melanodryas 

 cucullata of Gould, as Mr. Sharpe informs us, the description of 

 P. cucullata " can never apply to P. bicolor." 



Gerygoxe. 



Mr. Sharpe divides the Gerygones into two genera ; Gerygone, 

 proper with the eigthth primary quill nearly equal to the second 

 and much longer than the secondaries ; the culmen exceeding in 

 length the hind toe and claw, and Pseudogerygone, in which " the 

 second primary quill is about equal to the secondaries, and the 

 nostrils linear, shut in by a membrane, bristles scanty." Under 

 Gerygone are G. albogularis and G. cinerascens, Sharpe, a new species 

 from New Guinea and Victoria Eiver, North Australia. 



Under Pseudogerygone, are placed the Australian species P. 

 culicivora, P. magnirostris, P. fusca, P. Icevig aster, P. per sonata, P. 

 chloronota and P. Ifastersii, (Gerygone simplex, Masters) being a 



