'S06 riMELllD-t. 



the primaries narrowly margined with olive-brown, the secondaries 

 more reddish brown ; primary-coverts dark brown, contrasting with 

 the quills and narrowly edged with olive ; outer greater coverts 

 with small white tips to the feathers ; a frontal shade of pale rufes- 

 cent buft', extending above the eye ; eyelid ashy whitish ; sides of 

 face light rufescent brown ; under surface of body very pale ashy 

 on the throat, lighter on the breast and centre of the body, the sides 

 of the upper breast somewhat more ashy, the flanks washed with 

 olive-green ; under tail-coverts clearer olivaceous brown ; thighs 

 ashy brown ; under wing-coverts ashy, slightly washed with olive- 

 brown ; quills below dusky brown, with whitish edgings to the 

 feathers below. Total length 4-8 inches, culmen 0"55, wing. 2-3, 

 tail 1'8, tarsus 0'9. 



Young. Much more ruddy than the adult above, and more dingy 

 olive below, especially on the sides of the body and the under tail- 

 coverts ; sides ot face and throat more dingy than in the adult. 



Hab. From xv'ew ISouth Wales northwards along the east coast as 

 far as Port Denison. 



a, b, c. Ad. ; d. Brisbane, Queensland F. DuCane Godman and 0. 



Juv. sk. (J. T. Cockerell). Salvin, Esqrs. [P.]. 



e. Ad. sk. Eiver Hunter (Gould). Eyton Collection. 



6. Sericomis arfakiana. 



Sericornis arfakiana, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. vii. p. 902 

 (1875), xvi. p. 187 (1880) ; id. Orn. Papuasia etc. ii. p. 408 (1881). 



Adult onah (Proii, Arfak ; Bruijn : type of the species). General 

 colour above dark olive-brown, browner on the lower back and 

 rump, and rusty brown on the upper tail-coverts ; lesser wing- 

 coverts and median coverts like the back ; greatei' coverts darker 

 brown, edged with olive-brown, and with tips of dull fulvous forming 

 an indistinct wing-bar ; bastard-wing feathers and primary-coverts 

 blackish; quills dark brown, edged with rusty olive, paler along the 

 margin of the primaries ; tail-feathers dark brown, washed with 

 reddish brown on their margins ; crown of the head more rusty 

 brown than the back ; lores and base of the forehead light rusty 

 colour, the latter slightly mottled with dusky tips to the feathers ; 

 no eyebrow ; feathers round the eye and ear-coverts pale rusty red, 

 the latter with paler shaft-streaks ; cheeks and throat pale rusty 

 fulvous ; fore neck and remainder of under surface of body pale 

 ashy olive ; the chest somewhat washed with rusty ; sides of the 

 body and flanks rather deeper olive ; thighs and under tail-coverts 

 rusty ; under wing-coverts and axillaries dusky olive with some- 

 what of a reddish tinge ; quills below dusky brown, inner edges 

 ashy. Total length 4-5 inches, crdmen 0'(J, wing 2"3o, tail 1-75, 

 tarsiis 0-85. (Mus. Civic. Genov.) 



Hah. Arfak mountains, N.W. Xew Guinea. 



