] . GLTCTPHILA. 215 



/. Ad, sk. MovetonBa,}' {Stra)i(/e). Gould Collection. 



m, 11. Ad. sk. Liverpool Plains. J. Gould, Esq. FC.]. 



o, p. Ad. sk. West Australia. J. Gould, Esq. [C.J. 



•y. G. suhocaJcris. 



a, b, c. Ad. sk. Queensland. F. D. Godman and 0. Salvin, 



Esqrs. [P.]. 

 d. [d] ad. sk. Port Essington. Br. Sibbald [P.]. 



e Ad.sk. Interior of 8. Australia. Captain Sturt [C.]. 



/. cJ ad. sk. PortDarwin,Nov.l881 Voy. H.M.S. 'Alert.' 



(Dr. Coppitiger). 

 g. Ad. sk. N.W. Australia. Gould Collection. (Type of 



species.) 



Subspecies a. Glycyphila argentauris. 



Ptilotis argentauris, Fimch, Abhandl, naturwUs. Verein zu Bremen, 



ii. p. SU-i (187U). 

 Stigmatops argentauris (pt.), Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. xii. p. 336 



(1878), xvi. p. 76 ; id. Orn. Papuasia etc. ii. p. 325. 



General colour greyi.sh olive ; wings and tail inclining to yellowish ; 

 underparts grey ; the feathers of the breast and abdomen margined 

 with yellow; ear-coverts silvery white ; subocular region with brownish 

 spots ; bill and feet brown ; base of mandible pale. Culmen 0'6 inch, 

 wing 2-62, tail 2-1, tarsus 0-7 1. (Sahadori.) 



Hah. Waigiou. 



8. Glycyphila modesta, 



Glvciphila modesta, Grai/, P. Z. S. 1858, pp. 174, 190 (nee 1859, 

 p. 160); id. Cat. B. New Guin. p. 23; id. P. Z.S. 1861, p. 434; 

 Rosenh. Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind. xxv. p. 236 ; id. J. f. O. 1864, 

 p. 122; Finsch, Neur-Guin. p. 164; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 155, 

 no. 2006; Meyer, Sitzber. Ak. Wiss. Wien, Ixx. p. 215; Sharpe, 

 Proc. Linn. Sue. xiii. pp. 316,496; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 

 xiv. p. 73 ; Rosenberg, Malay. Archip. p. 364 ; Salvad. Orn. Papuasia 

 etc. ii. p. 307. 



Glvciphila subfasciata, Ramsay, P. Z. S. 1858, p. 385, 1875 p. 594; 

 Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 155, no. 2007; Gould, B. Neiu Guin. in. 

 pi. 13; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. ii. p. 188, iii. p. 286, iv. 

 p. 100; Salvad. Ibis, 1879, p. 325. 



Adult male. All the upper parts uniform brown, slightly paler 

 on the outer webs of the wing- and tail-feathers and on the upper 

 tail-coverts ; sides of head dirty brown, feathers with whitish shafts ; 

 part of the lores, a spot under the eye, cheeks, and all the rest of 

 the underparts white ; feathers of the fore neck and chest and the 

 under wing-coverts faintly barred with pale brownish ; inner margin 

 of quiUs and part of the tlanks pale fulvous ; bill and feet reddish 

 brown. 



The female resembles the male, but is slightly smaller. 



Yonnrj birds have the breast marked with longitudinal dusky 

 spots. 



