Z THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY 



6. Cbristiania omegns Plianerogamer og Bregner med 

 Angivelse af deres udbredelse sarafc en indledning om 

 vegetationens afhaengiglied af underlaget af A. Blytt. 



From Prof. Owen : — 



On a new species of Sthenurus. 



PAPERS READ. 



Description of a new species of Ptilotis, from Torres Straits. 

 By E. P. Ramsay, F.L.S. 



Ptilotis germana. sp. nov. 

 Adult male. The front and sides of the head, lores, throat and 

 chest, and the margins of the shoulders on the under side, yellow ; 

 ear-coverts yellow, with a narrow stripe of black, commencing 

 almost at the angle of the mouth, passing through them, and 

 below which they are of a brighter yellow ; under wing-coverts 

 pale buff; chest, breast, and remainder of the under surface 

 pale yellow, indistinctly striped down the centre with dull brown, 

 centre of the abdomen and under tail-coverts citron yellow, the 

 greater series of the under tail-coverts striped down the centre 

 with brown ; back of the head, hind neck, and all the upper 

 surface of the body dull brown, with a faint tinge of olive on the 

 rump ; wings and tail dark brown all the feathers broadly 

 margined on the outer webs with bright olive yellow ; bill black, 

 legs brown. 



Total length, 5'5 ; wings, 3*1 ; tail, 2*5 ; tarsi, 0*8 ; bill from 

 forehead, 0*7 ; from gape, 0*75. 

 Hob. Torres Straits. 



This species comes close to P. ornatus (Gould), on the one 

 hand from the stripes of the chest, but has not the blackish lores 

 of that species ; on the other hand it resembles P. flavescens of 

 the same author, but may be distinguished from it by the dull 

 brown of the back, and stripes on the under surface. 



