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The Port Moresby birds have the crown of the head darker, 

 and a more olive brown tinge on the upper surface, than is seen 

 in the Queensland specimen of this species. 



7Q.— ? MiCRCECA FLAVOVIRESCENS, G. B. Gray, Salvad and D'Alb. 



Ann. Mus. Civic, Genov. Yll., p. 21. 



Adult male. All the upper surface and the sides of the neck 

 dull olive green, wings and tail dark brown, the outer webs of the 

 feathers margined with the same tint as the back, the inner webs 

 of the under surface inclining, to white, under wing-coverts 

 yellow, a very narrow line of yellow feathers on the eyelid, sides 

 of the head and ear-coverts tinged with olive yellow, all the under 

 surface olive yellow, becoming clearer yellow on the throat, chest, 

 abdomen, and under tail-coverts. 



Bill black above, lower mandible yellow, legs and feet yellow. 



Total length 4*8 in., wing S'l in., tail 2*5 in., tarsi 0.55 — 0*56, 

 bill from forehead 0'65, from gape 0'75, from nostril to tip 0*45 ; 

 breadth at nostril 0"2 ; at gape 0"35. 



This species is very close to Microeca flavovirescens but may 

 hereafter prove distinct ; the lores are not white, although the 

 basal portion of the feathers incline to that color there is no 

 yellow ring round the eye, and the total length is smaller by half 

 an inch. 



Broadbent states that he shot this bird in the scrubs, and that 

 it had the habits and actions of an Eopsaltria. 



Loc. Mountain scrubs, Groldie River. 



77. EOPSALTRIA PLACENS, sp. nov. 



Adult male. All the head, nape, ear coverts, and chin dark 

 slatey brown ; the back of the neck, back, upper wing coverts, 

 and all the upper surface greenish olive ; wings and tail very 

 dark brown, the outer margin of the wing quills and of the tail 

 feathers washed with the same greenish olive tint above, lighter 

 below ; a dark olive spot at the base of the primaries, preceded by a 

 spot of white ; the inner margins of the quills whitish towards the 

 base; the margins of the wings below and the under wing coverts 

 bright yellow ; the lower part of the throat and upper portion of 



