OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 13 



body and tail, brown, of an olive brown on the outer webs of 

 wings and tail, and slightly tinged with olive on the rump and 

 upper tail-coverts ; under surface of the wing and tail-quills 

 brown, the shafts of the feathers white ; the inner webs of the 

 primaries and secondaries on the under side narrowly margined 

 with pale reddish brown, lesser under wing-coverts and margins 

 of the shoulder below black, axilliaries whitish grey ; ear- coverts 

 slightly produced silky white ; lores, sides of the face and the 

 whole of the chin and throat extending to the chest and to 

 behind the white ear-coverts, jet black ; the black over the eye 

 extends on the sides of the neck and sometimes across the nape, 

 quite encircling the ashy grey of the crown of the head ; chest, 

 breast, and abdomen, ashy grey ; flanks and under tail-coverts 

 washed with olive or rufous brown ; the tips of all the tail 

 feathers slightly, and the two outer more distinctly tinged with 

 fulvous ; bill bluish horn color above and below, the inner 

 margins white to the tip. 



Immature males have the throat and sides of head and the 

 chest ashy white, a black line behind the ear-coverts in some 

 joins a black superciliary stripe extending from the black lores ; 

 the throat is mottled white and black. It is only in the fully 

 adult ( c? ?) that the black extends across the nape. 



Total length 8*3 in., wing 4 in., tail 3*5, tarsus r05, bill from 

 forehead 1"2 in, from gape 1'3, height 0'4. 



Measurements of immature species, all marked as males : — 



Inches. 



I am by no means certain that the young of this species may not 

 prove identical with Mr. E. L. Layard's Mi/iolesfes maxima, but as 



