1. GLTCYPHILA. 217 



10. Glycyphila poliotis. 



Gliciphila poliotis, Grai/, F. Z. S. lh'>9, p. 160; id. Hand-l. B. i. 



p. 1-55, n5. 2013. 

 Glycyphila poliotis, Layard, Ibis, 1877, p. 362, 1880, p. 381. 



General colour above olive-brown ; wings and tail strongly washed 

 with yellowish green on their outer webs ; the small and peculiar 

 feathers beneath the eye black at base, silvery white at their tips ; 

 a spot behind the eye and upper margiu of ear-coverts blackish ; 

 ear-coverts silvery grey ; all the underparts pale brownish grey, 

 slightly washed with dingy yellow, palest on the abdomen, under 

 taii-coverts, and inner margin of quills ; biU black ; ii'is yellowish 

 white; feet horn-colour. Culmen 0-8-0-9 inch, wing 2-7o, tail 

 2-4, tarsus 0-75. 



Hab. Loyalty Islands. 



a, h. Ad. sk. Loyalty I.'>lands, 8ir G«orge Grey [P.]. 



(Types of species.) 



11. Glycyphila albiauricularis. 



Stigmatops albo-auricularis, Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S, W. iii. 

 pp. 75, 285 (1878), id. iv. p. 100; Salmdori, Ibis, 1879, p. 325; 

 id. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. xvi. p. 76; id. Orn. Fapuasia etc. ii. 

 p. 324. 



Adult. Upper parts dingy fuscous, with slightly darker centres to the 

 feathers ; remiges externally edged with olive, internally with white; 

 axillaries white ; sides of head, neck, breast, and abdomen mottled 

 with white and brownish, the feathers being brown and edged with 

 white ; under tail-coverts and flanks white, inclining to fuscous 

 toward the centre ; subocular region and ear-coverts with silvery 

 white spots ; biU black ; feet lead-colour. Culmen 0-9 inch, wing 

 2-7, tail 2-4, tarsus 0-7. {Ramsay.) 



Hah. South-eastern New Guinea. 



12. Glycyphila squamata. 



? Glveiphila nov. spec, liosenbero, Eeis. naar ZuidoostereU, p. 86 



(1867). 

 Stigmatops squaicata, Sahad. Ann. 3Ius. Civ. Gen. xii. p. 337 (1878), 



xvi. p. 76 (1880) ; id. Orn. Paimasiu etc. ii. p. 326; Sclater, P. Z. S. 



1883, p. 198. 

 Nectarinia, sp. incogn. $, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 51. 



Adult. Upper parts olive, paler on the rump and upper tail-coverts ; 

 underparts pale ohve ; throat yellowish ; feathers of breast olive, 

 broadly edged with greenish white ; subocular region brown, with 

 white spots ; cheeks greyish ; ear-coverts whitish grey ; wings 

 brownish grey, washed ^ith greenish ; tail olive ; bill black ; feet 

 lead-colour. Culmen 1-2 inch, wing 3, tail 2-4, tarsus 0-9. 



Youncj birds have the peculiar scale-shaped cross markings on the 

 breast less developed. 



Hab. Molucca Islands. 



