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the name is placed as a synonym of the latter species. That this statement, which has been 

 erroneously attributed to Dr. K. B. Sharpe, is incorrect, has been pointed out several times. In 

 1S84, Mr. C. W. De \'is, M.A., • placed the question of the validity oi Mclithreptuslaetior beyond 

 doubt, when referring to eight examples, male and female, procured by Mr. K. Broadbent in 

 July, 1883, at the mouth of the Norman River, Gulf District, Queensland. Probably, as pointed 

 out by Dr. E. P. Ramsay in November, 1886, • when enumerating the specimens collected by 

 the late Mr. T. H. Bowyer-Bower in the \icinity of Derby, North-western Australia, Dr. H. 

 Gadow confused Mclithvcptns ladiov with M. gtdnris, Gould, because he had only a single specimen 

 of the former. 



Manorhina melanophrys. 



BELL BIRD. 

 TurJits melanopltrys, Lath., Ind. Orn., Suppl. I., p. xlii. (1801). 

 Mi/tan/ha melanoplrrys, Gould, Bds. Aust., fol., Vol. IV., pi. 80 (1848). 



Manorhuia melanopltrys, Gould, Handbk. Bds. Austr., Vol. I,, p. 579 (186.5); Gadow, Cat. Bds. 

 Brit. Mus., Vol. IX., p. 259 (1884). 



Adult malic. — (hiivral colour above i/i'thni-'isli-nlii-i'; upper winy-coverts dusky-yrey ; quills dark 

 hrnirii. till- iiiitir i>rnii(trii's edged externally irilh ijfi y. the remainder of the qnills nianiined externally 

 a-iti, yell.ia-lsh-ni;,;^ iHiie], iiirrras.-s in r.rtrnt tmrnrdx tin i inimiiiist secondarieK /rhirh jiare ImtJi irehs 

 yelliiivisli-ohre like the back; tail feiLtlters dull yilluauxk-ul ice, ylos^y 07i their under surface when 

 viewed in certain lights; a large spot in front of the eye bright yellow, bordered above by a narrow 

 blackish line terminating at either end in a smnU black sjmt behind the unstril and edior'e the anterior 

 portion of the eyr: behind and bebne the rye a l,nre spare, alinre n:hieh is a yelhnrish sfnnk: eyelids 

 bhirk; anierinr j,nrti<ni nf the rh'-eks b/arkish: (dl thr unrhr surface yellowish-olive, paler than the 

 upper parts andifa nmre distinetty yelbnr shade, pa rtieudarJ y fin the abdomen; bill yellotv ; bare 

 space be/tind anrl below the eye orange-red; legs and feet rich chrome-yellou-: iris greyish-bron-n. 

 Total length in the flesh 7'5 inches, zving S'7, tail S'2o, bill fi'fl, tarsus O'Si. 



Adult female — Similar in plumage to the nude. 



Distribution — Southern Queensland, New South Wales, \"ictoria. 



^~|^\HIS well-known species was described by Latham in his "Index Ornithologicus," | as 

 J_ Tardus melanophrys, a name founded on the "Black-browed Thrush" of his "General 

 Svnopsis of Birds." j The latter, he states, "inhabits New South Wales, where it is known by 

 the name of Dilbong. Described from a drawing of Mr. Lambert." There is no doubt, from 

 Latham's description of the elevated feathers of the yellow loral patch, it was intended for the 

 present species, otherwise "size of the Song-Thrush, plumage in general pale olive-brown" is 

 somewhat misleading. Bonnaterre and Vieillot correctly described this species in 1823 under 

 the name of Manorina viridis, from specimens in the Natural History Museum and private 

 collections in Paris. 



In the "Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum" Dr. Gadow points out the differences 

 between the genera Manorhina and Mysantha, but considers the latter only subgenerically 



• Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensld., Vol. I, p. 156 (1S84). 

 t Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, and Ser., Vol. I., p. 1093 (18S7). 

 { Ind. Orn., p. xlii (1801). § Gen. Syn. Bds., Suppl. ii., p. 185. 

 II Gadow, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., Vol. IX., p. 258 (1884). 



