4. PTTL0TI8. 235 



P. Z. S. 1868, p. 886 ; id. Proc. Limi. Soc. K S. W. ii. p. 189, iii. 



p. Ill, iv. p. 100; Salvad. e (T Albert. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. xiv. 



p. 80 ; Salvad. Orn. Papiuisia etc. ii. p 334. 

 Meliphaga versicolor, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 122 (1846 ) 

 Ptilotis macleayana, i^rtHisrt//, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. i. p. 9 (1876). 



Adult. General colour above brownish olive ; wings and tail exter- 

 nally strongly washed with olive-yellow ; most of the feathers of the 

 iipper parts with darker centres ; a stripe running from the lores 

 through the eye, over the upper half of the ear-eoverts, and down 

 the sides of the neck blackish ; a stripe below the eye and lower 

 half of the ear-coverts bright yellow; behind the ear-coverts a 

 whitish spot : all the underparts of the bodj' yellow, each feather 

 with a broad longitudinal streak of brown ; flanks washed with 

 brownish grey ; under wing-coverts and inner margin of quills 

 yellowish fulvous. Culmon 0-8-0*9 inch, wing 3-9-4-.S, tail 3-7, 

 tarsus l-l'l. 



Yowuf lurch have the underparts more inclining to pale brownish 

 yellow instead of bright yellow. 



Hah. Prom Hockingham Bay to Cape York, and (according to 

 Ramsay) S.E. New Guinea. 



a. S ad. sk. Dunk Island, May 31, 1848 Voy. H.M.S. ' Rattlesnake.' 



{J. Macyillivray). 

 b-y. Ad. sk. Queensland. F. D. Godman and 0. Sal- 



viu, Esqrs. [P.]. 

 h. cJ ad. sk. Albany Island, Sept. 1855. J. R. Elsey, Esq. [P.]. 



Subspecies a. Ptilotis sonoroides. 



Ptilotis striolata, BliUl. Mus. Luyd. (teste Salvad.) ; Sclnt. Pr. Linn. 



Soc. ii. p. 157 (1858, sine descript.) ; Gray, P. Z. S. 1858, p. 190; 



id. Cat. B. New Gnin. p. 24; id. P. Z. S. 1861, p. 434; Rosenb. 



J. f. O. 1864, p. 122 ; id. Malay. Archij}. p, 553 ; Gray, Ilaml-l. 



B. i. p. 157, no. 2043. 

 Ptilotis sonoroides. Gray, P. Z. S. 1861, p. 428 ; Finsch, Neu-Guin. 



p. 165 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 157, no. 2041 ; Salvad. Ann. Mm. 



Civ. Gen. xii. p. 338, xvi. p. 77 ; id. Oi-n. Papuasia etc. p. 335. 

 Ptilotis versicolor, Finsch {nee Gould), Neu-Guin. p. 164 (1865). 

 Ptilotis melanophrys, Sclat. P. Z. S. 1873, p. 693 ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. 



Civ. (rex. X. p. 145. 

 Ptilotis striata (errore), Meyer, Sits. AJc. Wiss. Wien, Ixx. p. 207, note 



(1,^74). 



Adult. Closely allied to P. versicolor, but larger and less vividly 

 coloured. Upper parts pale brown, with a slight olive tinge, in- 

 clining to rufous on rump and upper tail-coverts ; wings and tail 

 strongly washed with bright olivc-ycUow ; imderparts uniform yel- 

 lowish white, each feather with a broad pale-brown longitudinal 

 streak ; "bill and iris black ; feet lead-colour " (Sahadori). Culmen 

 0-!)5 inch, wing 4-2 -4-5, tail 3 7-3-0, tarsus 1-1. 



Hab. New Guinea. Salwati, Waigiou, ilysol, and Batanta. 



