272 MELIPHAGID^. 



g. Ad. sk. Port ]?o\ven. J. B. Jukes, Esq. [P.]. 



/i. $ ad. ak. Port Curtis, Queensland, Voy. H.M.S. ' Alert.' 



April 1881 {Dr. Cop- 



pinger), 



2. Philemon argenticeps. 



Tropldorhynchus monachus, Vig. ^- Ilorsf. Lmn. Trans, xv. p. 324 



{nee Merops nionachiis. Lath.). 

 Tropidorliynchus argenticeps, Gould, P. Z. S. 1839, p. 144 ; id. B. 



Anstr. iv. pi. 59 ; id. Handb. B. Austr. i. p. 548 ; BLomhr. et Jacq. 



Voy. Pole Slid, pi. 18. fig. 2 j Bp. C. A. i. p. 390 ; Biggies, Orn. 



Austr. pi. 

 Philemon argenticeps, Gray, Hatid-1. B. i. p. 160, no. 2085 ; Ramsay, 



Proc. Linn. Sac. N. S. W. ii. p. 190. 



Adult. Differs from P. corniculatus as follows : — The bill is much 

 more slender throughout, and the whole bird is smaller. The 

 feathers of the head, throat, and fore neck are silky white, with 

 brown shaft-streaks, and of a very lanceolate shape, especially the 

 feathers on the chest ; the rest of the underparts arc a little paler 

 than in P. corniculatus, Culmen 1-3-1 -4 inch, wing 5-5*4, tail 4*2- 

 4-4, tarsus 1-1-1-2. 



Young birds are paler in coloration ; the feathers of the mantle 

 are edged with white, the feathers of the throat are white washed 

 with yellow, without showing any shaft-streaks ; the feathers of 

 the fore neck and chest have not yet attained the lanceolate shape. 



Hah. North Australia, from Port Darwin to Cape York. 



3. Philemon buceroides. 



Philemon buceroides, Swains. An. in Menag. p. 325 ; id. Classif. B, 



V. pt. p. 68. 

 Tropldorhynchus buceroides, Gi-ay, Gen. B. i. p. 125 (1847) ; Gould, 



B. Austr. Suppl. pi. 44 ; id. Handh. B. Austr. i. p. 547 ; Bp. C. A. i. 



p. 390. 

 Philemon buceroides. Gray, Saml-l. B. i. p, 160, no. 2089 ; Ramsay, 



Proc. Linn, Soc. N. S. W. ii. p. 190. 



The following parts are bare : — The greater portion of the sides 

 of the head and sides of the neck, and in very old birds part of the 

 hind neck also. The forehead, crown and occiput, throat, and fore 

 neck are covered with lanceolate but short feathers, which are 



