23f) STELlPHAGn)^, 



a. cJ ad. sk. Mysol. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



b. Ad. sk. Mvsol (WaUace). Gould CoUection. 



c. Ad. sk. Waigiou. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [CI. 



d. Ad. sk. New Guinea. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



15. Ptilotis chrysops. 



Sylvia chrysops. Lath. Ind. Orn. Supp. p. liv. 

 Black-cheeked Honey-eatev, Lath. Gen. Syn. Suppl. ii. p. 248. 

 Meliphaga cbiTSop.«,*T'i'V/. 4" Sorsf. Linn. Trans, xv. p. 31.5 (182(>) ; 



Jard. &)■ Selhy, III. Orn. i. pi. 35. fig. 1 ; Less. Man. (TOrn. ii. p. 73 ; 



Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 121 ; id. Hand-l. B. i. p. 156, no. 2029. 

 Melithreptus gilvicapillus, Vieill. Enc. Meth. p. 606. 

 Meliphaga ti-ivirgata, Verr. (fide Gray). 

 Yellow-eared Flycatcher, White's Voy. pi. to p. 161. 

 Ptilotis chrysops, Gould, B. Austr. iv. pi. 45 ; id. Ilandb. B. Austr. 



i. p. 521 ;' Bp. C. A. i. p. 392 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. 



ii. p. 189. 



Adult. General colour above, including the crown, ashy brown, 

 with a slight tinge of olive, most of the feathers slightly darker brown 

 towards their centres ; wings and tail brown, externally slightly 

 washed with olive ; lores, region below the eye and ear-coverts, and 

 a small spot above and behind the eye bright yeUow ; cheeks, lower 

 and upper corners of the ear- coverts duU black ; a few feathers 

 at the hinder corner of the latter white, forming a smaU patch 

 of that colour ; throat whitish grey, passing into pale ashy 

 brown on the fore neck, chest, and flanks ; abdomen dull white, 

 most of the feathers with indistinct brown central streaks ; under 

 tail-coverts and thighs pale buff; under wing-coverts and inner 

 margin of quills pale fulvous : '' bill blackish brown ; iris and cye- 

 lashdark brown; feet leaden brown " (Gotdd). Culmen 0-6-0-65 

 inch, wing 3-0-3-2, tail 2-7-2-9, tarsus 0-7-0-8. 



Hah. South Australia, as far north as Rockingham Bay. 



a. Ad. sk. River Darhng. Capt. Sturt [P.]. 



b. Ad. sk. New South Wales. J. Gould, Esq. fO.l. 



c. Ad. St. New South Wales. J. Gould, Esq. [C.]. 



d. e. c? ad. sk. Moretou Bay. Gould Collection. 



f, a, h, i. Ad. sk. Queensland.' F. D. Godman and 0. 



•^ Salvin,Esqrs.[P.]. 



16. Ptilotis limbata. (Plate YII. fig. 2.) 



Meliphaga (Ptilotis) limbata. S. MilUer, Verh. Nat. Gesch. Land- en 



TWA-ewA-. p. 162 (18.39-44;. 

 Ptilotis limbata, Bp. C. A. i. p. 392 ; Wall. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 486 ; 



Finsch, Xeu-Gtiin. p. 164. 

 Meliphaga limbata, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 122 1 1846) ; id. Hand-l. B. i. 



p. 157, no. 2045. 



Adidt. Upper parts pale greyish brown, tinged with olive-yellow on 

 the mantle and back; taU light brown, wings darker brown, both 



