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bviflPy white, as well as the ej'elid : the superciliary streaks inclining 

 to ashy brown like the sides of the neck ; ear-coverts light brown, 

 streaked with whitish shaft-lines ; cheeks and under surface of body 

 dull white, the fore neck, chest, and sides of breast ashy, the flanks, 

 thighs, and under tail-coverts more fulvescent brown ; axillaries 

 fulvous; under wing-coverts huffy whitish, mottled with black cen- 

 tres to the feathers near the edge of the wing ; under surface of 

 quills ashy brown below, fulvescent along the inner web ; " bill 

 black above, white below ; feet whitish ; iris chestnut " (D'Alhertis). 

 Total length 8 inches, culmen 0-75, wing 2-75, tail 4-2, tarsus 1*15. 

 Hab. South-eastern New Guinea, extending into New Britain. 



a. Ad. sk. New Britain. Eev. G. Brown [C.]. (Type 



of M. 77)(erscapukirts, Sclater.) 

 b,c. J 5 ad. sk. New Britain, Nov. Godeffroy Museum. 

 1880 {Kleinschmidt). 



5. Megalurus amboinensis. 



Sphenceacus amboineusis, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Getiov. vii. p. 988 



(1875). 

 Megalurus amboiiiensis, Sahrid. Arm. Mus. Civic. Gevov. xvi. p. 189 



(1880); id. Oni. della Papuasia etc. ii. p. 421 (1881). 



Adult. Head rufous, the feathers duller in the centre ; back greyish 

 olive, the feathers with broad dusk}' streaks down the middle ; rump 

 unspotted and rufescent in colour, the shafts dusky ; lores whitish ; 

 a superciliary line pale greyish olive ; underneath, white in the 

 centre of the body, the sides and under tail-coverts greyish rufous ; 

 sides of breast duller grey ; upper wing-coverts greyish olive, dusky 

 in the middle ; quills dusky, externally margined with rufous, the 

 inner secondaries duller, but greyish olive on the edges ; the quills 

 margined with rufous on the inner web ; under wing-coverts rufes- 

 cent ; t;iil-feathers greyish olive, with obsolete transverse barring, 

 the shafts dusky ; upper mandible dusky, the lower one whitish. 

 Total length 6*1 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 2"15, tail 2-9, tarsus 1-85. 

 {Salvadori.) 



Hah. Amboyna. 



Count Salvadori compares it with M. galactotes, but says that it 

 is smaller. 



6. Megalurus galactotes. 



Malurus galactotes, Temm. PL Col. 6o. fig. 1 (1823). 



Megalurus galactotes, Vig. ^ Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xv. p. 228 



(1827) ; Gould, B. Austr. fol. iii. pi. 35 (1848) ; Gray, Gen. B. i. 



p. 109 (1848) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 279 (1850) ; Gould, llandh. B. 



Austr. i. p. 399 (1865); Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 206, no. 2909 



(1869). 

 Sphenocacus galactotes, Diggles, Orn. Austr. pi. 47. tig. 2 (1870) : 



Ramsay, Trans. Linn. Soc. iV. S. W. ii. p. 187 (1878). 



Adult. General colour above dull fulvous-brown, with a slightly 

 ashy tinge on the back, which is broadly streaked with black down 



