247 



Obs. One specimen in the collection of the British Museum ex- 

 hibits an interesting case of xanthochroism, the greater part of the 

 plumage being pale creamy yellow, and the shafts of nearly all the 

 leathers white. 



Bab. Xorth Australia: from the Gulf of Carpentaria to Cape 

 York, and southwards to Port Denison. 



a, b. 5 ad. sk. Port Essington (R. J. Gould, Esq. 



Biirdikin). 



c, d, e. Ad. ; /. Cape- York district. F. D. Godman and 0. 



Var. sk. ^ ^ -r^ 



a. 9 ad. sk. Port Denison, Queens- 



land, May 1881 {Dr. 

 Coj)pi72f/er) . 



Salvin, Esqrs. [P.]. 

 Vov. H.M.S. 'Alert.'^ 



32. Ptilotis marmorata. (Plate IT.) 



Ptilotismarmorata, Sharpe,Jouni. Liim. Soc, Zool.xxi. p. 438 (1882); 

 id. in Goxdd's B. New Guin. pt. xiv. 



Closely allied to P. cinerea ; the feathers of the throat, fore neck, 

 and breast broadly tipped with whitish and faintly edged with olive- 

 grey, BO as to give these parts a very mottled appearance ; under 

 wino--coverts fulvous white ; some of the tail-feathers broadly edged 

 with fulvous on the inner web, like the remiges ; subocular region 

 whitish. Culmen 0-9-1 inch, wing 3-8-4-2, tail 3-2-3-9, tarsus 

 1-1-1-18. 



Hah. South-eastern Xew Guinea. 



a. Ad. sk. Astrolabe Mountains. Mr. A. Goldie [C.]. 



(Type of species.) 

 b-d. [d $ ] ad. sk. Astrolabe Mountains. Mr. A. Goldie [C.]. 



33. Ptilotis ciaerea. 



Ptilotis cinerea, Scl. P. Z. S. 1873, p. 693 ; Mei/er, Sitzb. Ak. Wiss. 

 Wien, Ixx. p. 128 ; Snhad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. vii. p. 776, x. 

 p. 145, xvi. p. 77 ; id. Orn. Papuasia etc. ii. p. 338. 



Adult. The feathers of the crown dark brown, broadly edged with 

 grey ; mantle and back olive-brown ; quills and wing-coverts and 

 tail umber-brown, narrowly edged with pale olive ; inner webs of 

 remiges and rectrices broadly margined with fulvous ; under wing- 

 coverts fulvous grey ; sides of head and aU the underparts of the 

 body pale ashy grey, slightly tinged with ohve ; *• biU black ; feet 

 pale ashy; iris chestnut" {Sclater). Culmen U-95 inch, wing 4-1, 

 tail 3-8, tarsus 1-05. 



H(d). Arfak Mountains, N.W. Kew Guinea. 



a b. S 2 ad. sk. Arfak Mountains, June Mus. Civico Genova. 



1874 (Briujn). 



