4. PTiLOTis. 237 



beiug strouglj" washed with olive-jellow on the outer webs ; a small 

 space behind the eye bare ; the skin below this part covered with very 

 short feathers, which are blackish brown at the base, silky white to- 

 wards the tip ; a few feathers at the upper corner of the car-coverts 

 bright yellow, forming a small patch : ear-coverts dull greyish ; 

 throat, fore neck, and chest whitish grey, slightly washed with 

 yellowish, this colour becoming predominant on the breast ; abdo- 

 men and under tail-coverts whitish yellow ; under wing- coverts and 

 axillaries pale brownish grey, washed with yellow ; inner margin 

 of remiges sUky whitish ; bill and feet blackish brown. Culmen 

 0-7o-0-8 iuch, wing 2-7-2-S5, tail 2-1-2--1, tarsus 0-75-0'8. 

 Hah. Bah, Lombock, Flores, and Timor. 



a. cf ad. sk. Bah ( Wallace). Goidd Collection. 



h, c. c? ad. sk. Lombock. A. E. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



d. (J ad. sk. Semao, Timor. A. E. Wallace, Esq. [C . 



e. Juv. sk. Floras. A. E. Wallace, Esq. [C. 



1 7. Ptilotis filigera. 



Ptilotis filigera, Gould, P. Z. S. ISoO, p. 278, pi. 34; Macr/ilUv. Karr. 



Vol/. Rattlesn. ii. p. 357; Gray, P. Z. S. 1858, pp. 174, 190; id. 



Cat. B. New Guin. pp. 23, 55 ; Rosotberg, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind. 



XXV. p. 286 ; id. J.f. 0. 1864, p. 122 ; Gould, Handb. B. Austr. 



i. p. 522; id. B. Austr. Suppl. pi. 42; Meyer, Sitzb. Ak. Jf'iss. 



Wien, Ixx. p. 290 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. iii. p. Ill ; 



Sharpe, Journ. Linn. Soc. xvi. p. 440 (1882). 

 Ptilotis tlaviventris. Gray, P. Z. S. 1861, p. 4.34 (pt.). 

 Tropidorbynebus chrysotis (pt.), Fimch, Neu-Guin. p. 165 (1865). 

 Xanthotis filigera, dray, Hand-l. B.i. p. 159, no. 2071; Salvad. 



P. Z. S. 1878, p. 92 ; id. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. xvi. p. 78; id. Orn. 



Pajmasia etc. ii. p. 344. 

 Anthochsera filigera, v. Pelzeln, Verhandl. zool.-hot. Geselhch. Wien, 



1872, p. 427. 

 Ptilotis (Aautliotis) S\.\^Q\'f\.,Ramsay,P-oc. Linn. Soc. N.S. W.'ii. p. 129. 

 Meliphaga filigera, Rosenberg, Malay. Archip. p. 365 (1879). 



Adult. Feathers of crown of head and hind neck ashy brown 

 washed with olive, with darker centres ; feathers of hind neck with 

 narrow grey tips ; feathers of the mantle and back brown, edged with 

 olive ; wings and tail brown, with paler edges ; ear-coverts silky 

 grey ; subocular region and feathers above the ear-coverts white, 

 those behind the ear-coverts golden yellow, forming a narrow streak ; 

 throat whitish grey : rest of underparts pale rusty buff, each 

 feather faintly tipped with whitish ; chest tinged with olive ; flanks, 

 under wing-coverts, and inner margin of quills rich fulvous ; " bill 

 olive-black ; naked space beneath the eye yeUow ; feet slate-colour "' 

 (Gould). Culmen 1-1-1 inch, wing 3-5-4"l, tail 3-3-2, tarsus 

 1-1-05. 



Young birds have the feathers of the hind neck not tipped with 

 light grey, the underparts strongly washed with rufous, and the 

 wing-coverts broadly edged with tbis colour. 



Jl((l). Australia from llockingham 15ay to Cape York and the Gulf 

 of Carpentaria ; New Guinea and Ai'u Islands. 



