OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 277 



Should this species prove to be distinct from M. unicolor, I 

 propose for it the name of M. hicolor. 



Total length, 4*2 in. ; wing, 2 -55 in. ; tail, 2 in. ; tarsus, 07 in. ; 

 bill from forehead, 0*55 in ; from gape, 0*6 in ; from nostril to 

 tip, 0'3in. 



One specimen only obtained by Kendal Broadbent, who in- 

 forms me he found it feeding on the berries of a species of 

 Ficiis, on the Goldie River. 



PITTID^. 

 90. — Pitta nov^-guine^, Mull, and Schl. 



During certain seasons this Pitta appears to be tolerably 

 plentiful, and specimens have been obtained by nearly every col- 

 lector visiting New Gruinea. They are distributed over the whole 

 of the south-east coast and on the adjacent islands. All the spe- 

 cimens obtained near Port Moresby were from small patches of 

 scrub and jungle in the ravines and water-courses on the hill sides. 

 During the great drought of 1877-8 no Pittce were to be found 

 in the district, but during March and April, 187S, they returned 

 in considerable numbers. 



91. — Pitta macklotii, Temm. 



One specimen, an adult male in fine plumage, iris dark-brown, 

 bill black, in Mr. Broadbent's collection. 



EUPETID^. 



92.— EuPETES NiGRiCRissus, Solvadovi ; Ann. Mus. Civ. St. Nat, 

 Genov. IX, p. 36 (1876). 



Mr. Goldie and Broadbent obtained this species on the Goldie 

 River, about forty miles inland from Port Moresby. In the 

 female there is an indistinct line of whitish over the black lores 

 and over the black behind the eye and ear coverts ; the whole 

 of the primaries, except the outer edges of the inner feathers, 

 and the under surface of the tail feathers, with the under tail 

 coverts, are black ; in other respects like the figures of E. ccerulea 

 in Gould's Bds. of New Guinea — iris red ; bill, legs, and feet 

 black. 



