or NEW SOOTH WALES. 74 



white spots on shoulders and the primaries, the same as in that 

 species. Bill, dark brown ; legs, brownish grey. 



Total length, 6 inches ; wings, 3*2 ; tail, 1'5 ; tarsus, 1*55 ; 

 bill from forehead, 1*05, from gape 1*15. 



Hah., New Ireland. 



Pachycephala fuliginata. sp. nov. 



Adult male. The whole of the head, lores, ear-coverts, sides of 

 the neck, and a broad band across the chest, sooty black ; the 

 throat, breast, under wing-coverts, abdomen, flanks and under 

 tail coverts, and a narrow line at the base of the tail feathers on 

 the inner web, white ; tail above blackish brown ; the centre two 

 tail feathers margined and tipped and the remainder slightly 

 margined at the base on the outer web only with bluish ashy- 

 like the back ; brown below ; very narrow blackish shaftlines 

 down the feathers on the back. Wings blackish brown above, 

 the margins of all the feathers on the outer webs bluish ashy- 

 grey ; lower part of the hind neck, wing-coverts, shoulders, back 

 rump and upper tail coverts bluish lead-grey ; the basal portion 

 of the wing feathers on the under surface, margined with white 

 on their inner webs ; bill, black ; legs and feet blackish lead 

 color. 



Total length, 6 inches ; wing, 3'5 ; tail, 2*7 ; tarsus, 0*73 ; bill 

 from forehead, 0*7. 



The black of the ear-coverts is joined to that of the chest by 

 a broad black band down the side of the neck. 



Hob. South-East coast of New Guinea. 



This species is about the size of P. riifiventris, and resembles 

 P. leucogastra of Salvadori and D'Albertis, but has no trans- 

 verse vermiculations on the back. 



Pachycephala collaris. sp. nov. 



The whole of the head and nape black ; pectoral band black, 

 narrow, joining the ear-coverts ; round the back of the neck 

 from the breast a distinct deep yellow collar ; all the remainder 

 of the upper surface olive; quills of the wing blackish brown, 

 margined on the outer webs with ashy-grey, on the inner at the 

 base with white ; wing-coverts above blackish, broadly margined 



