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brown, these edges broader on the secondaries ; two centre tail- 

 feathers ashy brown, subterminullj- darker brown ; rest of the taU- 

 fcathers ashy brown, with a large white spot on the tip of the inner 

 web, before which is a large siibterminal bar of black, the inner 

 web below this having another white notch ; at the base of the bill 

 a line of white feathers ; region of the aye and ear-coverts light 

 brown ; checks and entire throat pnre white ; rest of under surface 

 of body bright yellow, paling on the thighs and under tail-coverts ; 

 under wing-coverts white, the quills greyish brown, with white 

 edgings along the inner webs. Total length 3-4 inches, culmen 0'45, 

 wing 2-15, tail 1-4.5, tarsus 0*7. 



Another specimen from X.AV. Australia is probably the same as 

 the Xew-Guinea bii-d, but it is very much crushed and a bad skin, 

 and seems to have whitish ear-coverts instead of broAvn. This may, 

 however, be due to the bad preparation and shitting of the feathers. 



Ifah. X.W. Australia ; S.E. Xew Guinea. 



a. Ad. sk. Port Moresby. 0. C. Stone, Esq. [C.]. 



(Type of species.) 



b. $ juv. sk. Depot, Victoria River, J. K.ELsev, Esq. [P.]. 



November 1855. 



3. Gerygone inornata. (Plate V. fig. 1.) 



Gerygone inornata, Wallace, P. Z. S. 18(3.3, p. 490 ; Finsch, Neu- 



Guinea, p. 166; SJiarpe, Notes Lcyden Mus. i. uo. 9, p. 28, 

 Acantbiza inornata, Gi-aij, Hand-l. B. i. p. 219, uo. •"132. 



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

 the wing-coverts and quills darker brown, margined with the same 

 colour as the back ; tail-feathers light brown, with a subterminal 

 shade of blackish brown, all the feathers, excepting the two centre 

 ones, with a rounded spot of white at the tip of the inner web, in- 

 creasing in extent on the outer feathers, gradually extending to the 

 tip of the outer web also, till, in the outermost feather, the terminal 

 third is white, with a small brown apical spot, the outer web being 

 also narrowly white for nearly its whole extent ; lores with an 

 obscure spot of white ; sides of face and ear-coverts like the head, a 

 little i)aler only ; cheeks and under surface of body white, as also 

 the under wing-coverts, axiUaries, and inner edge of the quills below ; 

 thighs white, with brown bases. Total length 4 inches, culmen 0-4, 

 wing 2-1, tail l-o, tarsus 0-7. 



Adult feuKiIe. Similar in plumage to the male. Total length 3- 7 

 inches, culmen 0-4, wing 2-05, tail 1"5, tarsus 0-6. 



Hab. Timor. 



4. Gerygone simplex. 



Gerygone modesta, Cab. J. f. O. 1866, p. 10 (nee Feb.). 

 Acantbiza, sp.. Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 220, no. 3147. 



