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least wing-coverts olive like the back, the bastard wing, primary- 

 coverts, and greater series dull chestnut : quills dark brown, exter- 

 nally dull chestnut, the inner secondaries somewhat shaded with 

 olive; tail-feathers olive-brown; cheeks and throat buffy whitish, 

 the latter in strong contrast to the breast ; rest of under surface of 

 body fawn-colour, rather paler in the centre of the abdomen, the 

 fore neck somewhat streaked -with dusky greyish ; under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries fawn-colour; lower surface of quills ashy 

 brown, the inner webs internally fawn-buff. Total length 6-5 

 inches, culmen 0-S, wing 3-4, tail '2-9, tarsus 1-05. 



Ohs. I regret that I am unable definitely to settle the distinctive 

 plumages of sex and age in this species. There are apparently 

 three stages of plumage represented in the Museum series. Mr. 

 Macgillivray has marked two birds as " males ; " and both of these 

 agree in having the wings' olivaceous and resembling the back. 

 Two other specimens differ in having the wings externally chestnut, 

 and having likewise a small spot of chestnut behind the eye, like 

 the remains of an eyebrow ; these I think may be the old tbmales, 

 though the sex is not determined. From Port Albany comes the 

 bird described in full above ; and this I take to be the young. It is 

 evidently in changing plumage, but has the chestnut wings of the 

 foregoing (supposed) females, although it differs from all of the 

 other examples in its very distinct rufous eyebrow. A correspond- 

 ing specimen from Salwatty, with an equally broad rufous eyebrow, 

 I consider to be the young of P. mec/arJu/ncfius. 



Mr. Gould has been so good as to lend me the type of his Colluri- 

 chula parvissima, which is a chestnut-winged bird, with a distinct 

 rufous eyebrow, wing 3-5 inches. I believe it to be only the young 

 of PinaroJestes nijigaster. 



Hab. IVorthern and North- eastern Australia. 



a. [$] ad. St. Barnard Isles, June 2, 1848 Capt. Stanley [P.]. 



(J. Macyillivray). 

 6. [$]ad. St. Brown's River (j; Jif.). Capt Stanley [P.]. (Type 



of M. (jouhli. ) 



c. c? ad. sk. Dunk Island (J. M.). Capt. Stanley [P.j. (Type 



of M. f/riaeatus.) 



d. S ad. St. Gape York {J. M.). Capt. Stauley-[P.]- 



e. Ad. sk. Port Albany. Purchased. 

 /. [Juv.] sk. Port Albany. Purchased. 



4. Pinarolestes afl&nis. 



Myiolestes affinis, Gray, P. Z. S. 18G1, p. 431 ; Meyer, Sitz. Akacl. 



Wien, ]xix. p. 209. 

 Colluncincia affinis, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 386 ; Salvad. Ann. Mits. 



Civic. Getiov. vii. p. 773. 



Adult male. General colour above olive-brown, the heaa rainer 

 greyer, the whole back more shaded with olive ; least wing-coverts 

 olive like the back, the greater and median series externally dull 

 rufous ; quiUs dark brown, dull rufous on their outer aspect, the 



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