342 TIMELIIPJ). 



6. Eupetes leucostictus. 



Eupetes leucostictus, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 690, pi. lii. ; Salvad. 

 Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. x. p. 147 (1877), xvi. p. 187 (1880) ; id. 

 Oni. Papuasia, ii. p. 414 (1881). 



Above dark oily green, the head and the neck chestnut ; wings 

 black, their coverts ornamented Avith rounded white spots ; secon- 

 daries and tertiaries uniform with the back ; lores, region of the eye, 

 and a streak behind the eye on both sides, with the chin and middle 

 of the throat, black ; a large white patch on each side of the neck ; 

 a semilunar patch of black on the fore part of the breast, spotted 

 with white: breast and abdomen bluish ashy, lateially shaded with 

 oily colour ; tail black, the lateral tail-feathers broadly tipped with 

 white, but the middle ones entirely oily colour, uniform A\ith the 

 back ; bill black ; feet dull lead-colour : iris black. Total length 

 1-9U inch, wing 0-75, tail 0-82, bill 0-17, tarsus 0-20 (Sahadori). 



Huh. N.W. New Guinea. 



4. PYCNOPTILUS. 



Type. 



Pycnoptilus, Gould, P. Z. S. 1850, p. D.J P. fluccosus- 



Range. Australia. 



1. Pycnoptilus floccosus. 



Pycnoptilus floccosus, Gould, P. Z. S. 1850, p. 95 ; id. B. Avstr. fol. 

 ' Supjil. pi. 27 (1850) ; id. Handb. B. Austr. i. p. 348 (1865) ; Ram- 

 say, Proc. Linn. Sue. N. S. W. ii. p. 185 (1878). 

 Sphenura floccosa, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 205, no. 2901 (1869). 



Adult. General colour above dark chocolate-brown, more sooty 

 brown on the head, neck, and mantle : wing-coverts like the back ; 

 quills dark brown, externally washed with chocolate-brown : upper 

 tail-coverts and tail rather more rufous-chocolate ; base of forehead, 

 lores, feathers above and below the eyes, eyelid, and cheeks rufous- 

 ochre, the feathers tipped with dark brown, very plainly- on the fore- 

 head, but less distinctly on the other parts ; ear-coverts sooty brown, 

 with narrow pale shaft-lines ; throat arid breast rufescent-ochre, 

 mottled with dusky margins to the feathers, less distinct on the 

 throat, the breast more ashy, the abdomen white ; sides of breast 

 sooty brown, the flanks rufous-brown, as also the thighs ; under 

 tail-coverts bright chestnut ; under wing-coverts and axillaries ful- 

 vous, with a few dusky edgings to some of the feathers ; quills dusky 

 brown below, ashy fulvous along the edge of the inner web. Total 

 length 6 inches, culmen 0-05, wing 2-8, tail 2-8, tarsus 1"05. 



Hah. Victoria and New South "Wales. 



a. Ad. sk. New South Wales. J. Gould, Esq. 



h. Ad. sk. Australia. J. Gould, Esq. 



