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under tail-coverts white ; thighs grey ; under wing-coverts and quill- 

 lining gre}', the former slightly washed with olive-yellow. Total 

 length 9"5 inches, culmen 0-95, wing o-oo, tail 3'85, tarsus 0-9.. 



Adult female. General colour above brown, the head mottled 

 with darker brown centres to the feathers ; the lower back, rump, 

 and upper tail-coverts strongly washed with greenish olive, rather 

 j'ellower on the latter ; wings brown, all the coverts and quilis con- 

 spicuously margined with white on the outer web, the secondaries 

 slightly washed with olive externally ; tail brown, strongly shaded 

 with olive-yellow on the centre feathers, the outer rectrices edged 

 and tipped A^ith white along the inner web ; ear- coverts light ashy 

 brown, streaked with darker bro-wn ; throat and fore neck light 

 brown, with longitudinal streaks of darker brown ; rest of under 

 surface dull white, slightly washed with yellow on the breast and 

 flauks, all the feathers with broad mesial streaks of brown, becoming 

 narrower on the flanks and under tail-coverts ; lower abdomen and 

 under tail-coverts pure white, uot streaked ; under wing-coverts 

 fulvous or ashy brown, with mesial streaks of darker brown. Total 

 length 10 inches, culmen 1, wing 5'8, tail 4*1, tarsus 0-9, 



Hab. South-eastern New Guinea. 



a,b.S2 ad. sk. Near Port Moresby, S.E. O. C. Stone, Esq. [C.]. 

 New Guinea. 



3. Sphecotheres flaviventris. 



Sphecotheres flawentris, Gould, P. Z. S. 1849, p. Ill; id. B. 



Austr. Siippl. pi. .37; £p. Consp. i. p. 345; Finsch, Keu-Gtdnea, 



p. 173; Diggles, Oni. Austr. part 2 ; Gould, Hanrlb. B. Austr. i. 



p. 468 ; Rcamaij, P. Z. S. 1868, p. 385 ; Gray, Hund-l. B. i. p. 291 ; 



Schl. N. T. D. iii. p. 342. 

 PicHorhaniplius cucullatus, Rosenh. N. Tljd^chr. Nederl. Ind. xxix. 



p. 143. 

 Oriolus flaviventris, Schl. Mus. P.-B. Coraces, p. 116. 



Adult male. Above yellowish green, the scapulars and wing- 

 coverts uniform with the back, as also the innermost secondaries, 

 the coverts and the last-named quills blackish on the inner webs ; 

 outer secondaries blackish, inclining to grey at the tips of the fea- 

 thers, which are yellowish green externally ; piimaries and primary- 

 coverts blackish, externally edged with greyish; upper tail-coverts 

 yellowish green with black bases ; tail-feathers black, externally 

 margined with yellowish green, the three centre feathers on each 

 side entirely black, the next with a white spot at the tip, increasing 

 in size on the penultimate feather and on the outermost, both of 

 which have the outer web almost cutirely white ; bead and nape 

 black, as also the cheeks ; the lores and all the region of the eye 

 bare ; entire under surface of body bright yellow, the lower abdo- 

 men, thighs, and under tail-coverts white ; sides of the upper breast 

 green ; under wing-coverts dull greyish with yellow edgings to 

 the feathers ; under surface of the quills blackish, inclining to 

 greyish near the base of the inner web ; '• orbits and a narrow space 



