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79. — Gerygone cinerascens, Sharpe, Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. 



XIII, pp. 494, 495. 

 Two specimens, closely allied to G. albogularis, Gould. A 

 young bird, which I believe to belong to this species, has a tinge 

 of olive brown on the upper surface, rump and upper tail coverts 

 light brown, throat light yellow. Morton and Blunden obtained 

 this species on the Laloki River during the months of July and 

 August. 



MALURID^. 



80. — Malurds alboscapulatus, Meyer, Sitzber. der. h. Ah. der 

 Wlssensch. zu. Wien. LXIX, p. 496 (1874). 

 This well-marked species is universally dispersed over the 

 whole of the south-east coast. It is plentiful on the grassy 

 slopes about Port Moresby during the months of April, May, 

 and June, and are usually met with in small troops of five or six 

 in number. In habits and actions they closely resemble the 

 Australian species of the genus. On examining a large series I 

 find those marked as females difier from the males in having the 

 wing quills brown instead of black ; but I think this is rather a 

 sign of immaturity than a sexual difference, as the young are 

 chiefly of a dull brown colour. 



81. — ? ToDOPSis CTANOCEPHALA, Quoy. et Oaim. Voy. Astrol. t. 5,/. 4. 

 Todopsis bonapartei, O, B. Gray,P.Z.S. 1858,2?. 177 (^female). 

 T. cyanocephala (Q. et G.) ; Bamsay P.L.S.N.S.W. III. p. 108. 

 This beautiful species is found all along the south-east coast. 

 It is not common in the Port Moresby district ; the few obtained 

 were all shot on the Laloki River, and were found frequenting 

 the thickest parts of the scrubs, always in pairs, hopping over 

 the ground, and searching among the fallen leaves and low vines 

 for insects, carrying the tail erect after the manner of the M.aluri, 

 from which they differ in habits chiefly in confining themselves to 

 the scrubby parts of the country, being seldom if ever seen in the 

 opens. After a careful examination of the plates and descriptions 

 of 2'. cyanocephalus of Quoy and Gaimard, and T. bonapartei of G. 

 R. Gray 1 feel convinced that the latter is merely the female of the 



