562 DESCRIPTION OP TWO XEW BIRDS OF QUEENSLAND, 



An aberrant form e£ the family, approaching Colluricincla in 

 structure of bill but exaggerating the exsertion of the tips of the 

 tail feathers in that genus (e. g. C. rufogaster) . 



P. Newtoniana. 



Above uniform olive-brown, beneath impure grey. Under 

 surface of wing with the base of the inner webs of the primaries 

 and the entire inner webs of the secondaries broadly edged with 

 pale sulphur-yellow. Under surface of shafts of wing and tail 

 feathers yellow. Grape yellow. Length 8^ in. ; wing 4i in. ; 

 tar^ius li in. ; bill i in., its depth and width at the nostrils iV in. 



Sex ? Locality, Tully River scrubs ; type specimen in Queens- 

 land Museum. 



In honouring this Bower Bird with the name of Professor 

 I^ewton, it is hoped that the interest attaching to it will be 

 accepted as an equivalent for its plentiful lack of beauty. Its 

 discoverer, Mr. K. Broadbent, unfortunately met with no other 

 specimen, and can give no item of its life history except that, on 

 the testimony of its stomach, it feeds in the month of September 

 on a fruit determined by Mr. Bailey to be that of Linociera 

 ramijlora, a large tree of the Olive family growing in dense scrubs. 



Besidents near the haunts of the bird have an opportunity of 

 doing a good turn to Science by searching for the bird and 

 studying its habits. 



Cracticus rufescens. 



General tint rufous, bright on the side of the neck and on the 

 shoulder, paling on the lower surface. Head brownish-black 

 with a spatulate rufous streak on each feather. Back lighter 

 with the streaks broadly linear and indented by the ground- 

 colour. On the rump and upper tail-coverts the rufous markings, 

 interrupted by the ground-colour on the latter, render their tint 

 predominant, and on the wing-coverts spread broadly on the tips 

 of the feathers. Chest with an obscure collar formed of dark 



