212 MUSCICAPIDJE. 



b'". Smaller; wing 1-85 mcli : below pale 

 yellow ; tail-feathers not uuiform, ashy 

 "whitish below, with a broad median black 

 band across them, and a large white spot 



at the tip of the inner web sidfurea, p. 214. 



f". Round the eye a ring of yellow feathers /ii/po.iaiitIia,-p. 215. 



1. Gerygone albigularis. 



Psilopus albignlaris, Goidd, P. Z. 8. 18o7, p. 147; id. Sijn. B. Austr. 



part iv. 

 Psilopus olivaceus, Gould, P. Z. 8. 1837, p. 147 ; id. 8yn. B. Amtr. 



part iv. 

 Gerygone albogularis, Gould, B. Austr. folio, ii. pi. 97 ; Bp. Consp. i. 



p.' 292 ; Rdchenb. Vor/. Neuholl. pp. 70, 288 ; Ramsay, P. Z. S. 



1866, p. 576 ; Fimch, Neu-Guinea, p. 166; Gould, Handb. B. Austr. 



i. p. 266 ; Ramsay, Pr. Linn. 8oc. K 8. W. ii. p. 183 ; 8/tarpe, 



Notes Lcyden Mus. i. no. 9, p. 28. 

 Acanthiza albigularis, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 189 ; id. Hand-l. B. i. 



p. 219, no. 3127. 

 Acanthiza olivacea, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 189. 



Adult. General colour above olive-browu, rather more ashy brown 

 on the head, and decidedly more so ou the upper tail-coverts : tail- 

 feathers ashv brown, with a broad subterminal shade of blackish 

 brown, the inner web with a white baud about the middle of the 

 feather and a white spot at the tip, the two centre feathers with- 

 out the white spots ; wing-coverts and quills dark browu, externally 

 edged with ashy brown, the edges of the quiUs light ashy ; sides of 

 face ashy browu like the head, a little rufescent round the eye and 

 on the ear-coverts : a loral streak of white ; cheeks and throat white ; 

 rest of under surface of body bright yellow, paler on the under tail- 

 coverts ; under wing-coverts and axillaries whitish, with a slight 

 tinge of yellow ; quills light brown below, edged wit h whitish along 

 the inner web ; " bill blackish browu ; feet blackish brown in some 

 specimens, leaden brown in others; iris scarlet " (&'ohW). Total 

 length 4 inches, culmen 0-35, wing 2-25, tail 1*7, tarsus 0-65. 



Sexes ahke {Gould). 



Young. Differs from the adult in the throat being yeUow like the 

 rest of the under surface. 



Hah. X.E. Australia and the whole of Eastern Australia to New 

 South Wales. 



a. Ad. sk. Cape York [Cockerell). Purchased. 



b, c. Ad. st. Australia. 



2. Gerygone cinerascens. 



Gerygone cinerascens, 8harpe, Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xiii. p. 494 ; 

 id. Notes Leyden Mus. i. no. 9, p. 28. 



Adult (type of species). General colour above ashy brown, with 

 a faint tinge of olive on the rump ; vring-covcrts brown, narrowly 

 edged with whity brown ; quills brown, externally edged with whity 



