216 meliphagid.t;. 



Ad. (S . Culmen 0"5S inch, wing 2-65, tail 1-7, tarsus 0-61. 

 Ad. 2- >. 0'6 „ „ --5, „ 1-55, „ 0-61. 

 Hab. New Guinea, Aru Islands, and Cape York district in Aus- 

 tralia. 



a. 2 ^^- ^^- Rocliincrham Bay, Feb. 18G8 Gould Collection. (Co-type 



{E. P. Eamsay). o{ G. subfasciata,'Riimsa.j.) 



b, c. Ad. sk. Somerset, Cape York. Gould Collection. 



d. Ad. sk. Cape York. F. D. Godman and 0. Salvin, 



Esqrs. [P.]. 



e. Ad. sk. Aru Islands. F. D. Godman and O. Salvin, 



Esqrs. [P.]. 

 /. $ ad. sk. Aru. A. R. AVallace, Esq. [C.]. 



(Type of species.) 

 ff. (S ad.sk. S.E.NewGuinea(i)r. Jaw^s). Gould Collection. 



9. Glycyphila incana. 



Certhia incana, Latham, Ind. Orn. i. p. 296 (1790). 

 Certbia cklorophasa, Forster, Descr. Anim. p. ^64 (1844). 

 GlicipLila modesta, Gray, P. Z. S. 1859, p. IGO {nee 1858, p. 174) ; 



id. Cruise of the ' Curagoa,' pi. iv. fig. 1. 

 Glyciphila cliloropksea, Gray, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 160. 

 Gliciphila flavotincta, Gray, Ann. S)- Mag. Nut. Hist. 1870, v. p. 331. 

 Gliciphila caledouica. Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 155, no. 2005 (1869). 

 Glicipliila incana, Gray, Haiid-l. B. i. p. 155, no. 2009. 

 Glyciphila incana, Layard, Ibis, 1877, p. 362. 

 Glycyphila modesta, Layard, Ibis, 1877, p. 362. 

 Gl'ycVphila flavotincta, Layard, Ibis, 1878, pp. 270, 2S0 ; Tristram, 



Ibis, 1879, p. 191, 1880,'p. 291. 

 Glycyphila sateUes, Tristram, Ibis, 1879, p. 185; Layard, Ibis, 1880, 



p. 381. 

 Glycyphila incana, Tristram, Ibis, 1880, p. 381. 

 Glycyphila chlorophfea, Layard, Ibis, 1882, p. 605. 



Adult female (type of G. modesta, Gray, 1859). General colour 

 above dull olive-brown, inclining to ashy grey on the head ; wing.s, 

 wing-coverts, and tail dark brown, strongly washed with olive- 

 yellow ; part of cheeks and ear-coverts shining silvery grey ; throat, 

 fore neck, and chest brownish grey varied with ashj' white, inclining 

 to dull whitish on the abdomen and under tail-coverts, tinged with 

 yellowish brown on the flanks ; under wing-coverts and inner margin 

 of quills dull whitish ; bill black. Culmen 0-8 inch, wing 2-95, tail 

 2-4, tarsus 0-76. 



The adult male closely resembles the female in the coloration of 

 the upper parts ; the only difference is that the olive-yellow colour is 

 slightly more pronounced, whilst the edge of the wing, the axillarics, 

 and nearly all the uuderparts of the body are washed with dingy 

 brownish yellow. Culmeu 0-85-0-95 inch, wing 3-05, tail 2-6, 

 tarsus 0-83. 



Hab. New Caledonia and New Hebrides. 



a. c? ad. sk. Nu, New Caledonia. J. Macgillivray, Esq. [C.]. 



(Type of G. ynodesta. Gray.) 

 i, c. [ c? ] ad. sk. Erromango, Aug. 1865. J. Brenchley, Esq. [P.]. 



