250 



MEI,irHAGIDJ5. 



This species is distinguished by having the sides of the head 

 entirely covered with feathers ; it wants the yellow or white post- 

 auricular patch ; the tail is rounded, and the sides of the breast and 

 flanks are rufous. 



Upper parts dark brown ; feathers of the crown edged with ashy 

 grey, those of the back with olive ; sides of head grey, darker 

 towards the centre ; feathers of fore neck and chest grey, slightly 

 edged with whitish ; abdomen and under tail-coverts grey, edged 

 with yellowish white ; sides of breast and flanks and the axillaries 

 rufous ; wings blackish brown, edged with fulvous ; inner web of 

 rcmiges edged with white ; under wing-coverts grey, with yellow 

 edges ; tail blackish brown, edged with olive and narrowly tipped 

 with white ; bill black ; feet lead-colour. Culmen 0-8 inch, wing 

 3-2-3-45, tail 2-8-3-1, tarsus 1. 



Female. Like the male, but a little smaller. 



Young birds are olive above ; the feathers of the mantle are darker 

 towards their centres, while those of the underparts are paler and 

 edged with yellow; under wing-coverts fulvous ; rectrices with white 

 edges to the inner web. 



Hub. Arfak Mountains, N.W. New Guinea. 



5. POGONORNIS. 



Pogonornis, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 123 (1846) . 



Type. 

 P. ciucta. 



Head and tail of Pogonornis cincta. 



Bill shorter than the rest of the head, with a strong prominent 

 ridge. Nostrils operculated, partly covered with feathers ; strong 

 rictal bristles. First primary long. Tip of wing formed by the 

 fourth to sixth primaries. Secondaries four fifths the length of the 



