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white, the primary-coverts slightly tipped with whitish ; tail dull 

 brown, tipped on the inner web with reddish white, all the feathers 

 washed with grej'. 



Hub. Northern Australia. 



a. Ad. St. Port Essington. Capt. Chambers [P.]. 



b. Juv. St. Port Essiugtou. Capt. Chambers [P-J- 



c. Juv. sk. Port Essington. Capt. Chambers [P.J. 

 (1. $ juv. sk. Poll Essiugton (J. Macgillivmy). Capt. Stanley [P.]. 



e. (5 ad. sk. Port Essington (J. Macgilliiray). Capt. Stanley [?•]• 

 /. Juv. sk. Port Essington. J. B. Jukes, Esq. [P.]. 



//. Ad. sk. Cape York. Capt. Stanley [P.j. 



Subsp. a. Oriolus viridissimus. 



Mimeta mueUeri, Bp. Consp. i. p. 346* ; Fiiisch, Neii Guinea, p. 173. 

 Oriolus muelleri, Gray, P. Z. S. 1858, p. 175 ; id. Hand-l. B. i. 



p. 293. 

 Mnneta viridissima, Heine, J. f. O. 1859, p. 403 (ex Tenun. MS. in 



Mm. Lityd.). 



Adult male. Above dull greenish yeUow, nearly uniform on the 

 hinder neck ; the head, mantle, scapulars, and back centred with 

 black in spear-shaped spots; least wing-coverts resembling the back, 

 the median and greater series black, broadly margined with greenish 

 yellow, the latter tipped with very pale yellow, forming a band 

 across the wing ; primary-coverts black, narrowly margined with 

 greenish yellow, and broadly tipped with pale yellow, almost white ; 

 quills blackish, the primaries externally edged with whitish, the 

 secondaries with greenish yellow, and all tipped with yellowish 

 white, more plainly on the secondaries ; tail-feathers blackish on 

 the inner web, wa.shed with olive-green on the outer one, and tipped 

 with a spot of very pale yellow, larger on the inner than on the 

 outer web, the two centre tail-feathers greenish, inclining to black 

 down the centre near the shaft ; lores greyish ; sides of face and 

 neck nearly uniform yellowish green, the latter with narrow black 

 mesial streaks to the feathers ; throat dull yellowish green, with 

 tiny shaft-streaks of black ; rest of the under surface of the body 

 rather lighter and brighter yellow, especially on the abdomen and 

 iinder tail-coverts, most of the plumes narrowly streaked with black 

 down the shafts ; under wing-coverts and axillaries yellowish green 

 like the breast, those near the edge of the wing black, tipped with 

 yellow, giving a mottled appearance. Total length 10-0 inches, 

 culmen 1-35, ^ving 5-95, tail 4-6, tarsus 1-05. 



Younr/. Much more mottled above than the adult, the feathers 

 being blackish, with broad margins of yellowish green, the head 

 lighter thnn the back, and vei-y thickly and broadly streaked with 

 black ; featliers encircling the eye and a broad eyebrow bright yel- 

 low, narrowly streaked with black ; ear-coverts didl olive-green 

 with black streaks ; cheeks and under surface of body bright yellow, 



* Bonaparte's description is totally irrecognizable, being merely "Minor: 

 speculo alnvi albido." Heine's name must be adopted. 



