1. GEALLIKA. 273 



Adult. General colour above blue-black, the scapulars uniform 

 with the back ; all the wing-coverts pure white, excepting the 

 outermost of the greater scries, which are black, with a white tip 

 to a few of them ; primary-coverts and quills black, the secondaries 

 tipped with white, the innermost with white bases extending for 

 more than half of the quills, and forming a longitudinal wing-bar ; 

 feathers of the lower back mottled with white, each feather having 

 a broad subterminal bar of this colour ; rump, upper tail-coverts, 

 and tail pure white, the latter with a broad terminal bar of blue- 

 black, some of the outer feathers tipped with Avhite ; lores, feathers 

 in front of the eye, and a broad band extending from the eye above 

 the ear-coverts to the sides of the neck blue-black ; above the eye 

 to the sides of the nape a broad streak of white, forming a very 

 distinct eyebrow ; ear-coverts and sides of neck w;hite, forming a 

 large oblong patch ; below the eye a small half-circle of white 

 feathers ; cheeks, throat, and breast blue-black ; rest of under sur- 

 face of body pure white, including the under wing- and tail-coverts ; 

 quills black below, with concealed white bases ; " bill yellowish 

 white; feet black; iris straw-yellow" (Gould). Total length 11 

 inches, culmen 0-95, wing 7'2, tail 5-2, tarsus 1-7. 



Adult female. Similar to the male, but having a frontal band and 

 the throat white, and no white line under the eye ; the general 

 shade of the black colour greener than in the male, where it is blue- 

 black. Total length 10 inches, culmen 0-95, wing 6-95, tail 4-95, 

 tarsus 1-f). 



Young. Similar to the adult female, but more dingy and browner ; 

 forehead blackish brown like the crown ; all the quills and tail- 

 feathers distinctly tipped with white. 



Hah. Australia. 



a. 5 ad. st. Australia. 



6. [ 2 ] ad. st. Australia. Linnean Society f P.]. 



( Type of G. bicolor.) 



<•.[$] ad. sk. South Australia. Sir George Grey [P.]. 



d,e. cJ 2 ad. sk. Murray River. Sir George Grey [P.]. 



/. Pull. St. Swan River. Purchased. 



ff, fi- 6 2 ad., t. Pull. sk. N.W. Australia. J. R. Elsey, Esq. [P.]. 



2. Grallina bruijni. 



Grallina bruijuii, Salvad. Ami. Mtts. Cimc. Genov. vii. p. 929. 



Head above, neck, back, throat, cheeks, quills, and the apical 

 half of the tail-feathers black ; lores, a superciliary band drawn 

 backwards as far as the sides of the neck, upper part of the breast, 

 upper and under wing-covei-ts white : rump, upper tail-coverts, and 

 basal half of the rcctrices white, slightly tinged with bufl'; the base 

 of the quills white ; bill lead-coloured in the skin, the edges of the 

 mandibles and the tip pale ; feet black. Total length 7'3 inches 

 culmen 0-7, wing 4-3, tail 3-15, tarsus 1-05. (Salvadori.) 



Hah. Arfak Mountains in Xorth-western New Guinea. 



