220 MCSriCAPID-lC. 



colour above umber-brown ; wings blackish brown, tbe coverts and 

 quills edged with paler brown, inclining to whity brown on the 

 secondaries; tail-feathers brown, with a broad black bar near their 

 ends, all but the centre feathers having a conspicuous white spot 

 near the tip of the inner web ; lores and an indistinct ej-ebrow 

 rufous-brown ; eyelid buify whitish ; in front of the eye a blackish 

 spot ; sides of face, throat, and fore neck light rufous ; remainder of 

 the body white, the sides of the upper breast brown ; sides of body 

 slightly washed with brown ; under wing-coverts and axillaries 

 white ; quills dark brown below, whitish along the inner webs. 

 Total length 3-7 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 2, tail 1-4, tarsus 0-65. 

 (Mus. Civic. Genov.) 



Hah. Atam, jST.W. New Guinea. 



4. Pseudogerygone culicivora. 



Psilopus culicivorus, Oould, P. Z. 8. 1840, p. 176. 



Gerygone culicivora, Gould, B. Austr. folio, ii. pi. 99; Sp. Consp. i. 



p. 293 ; Reichenb. Vog. Nmlioll. pp. 71, 288 ; Gould, Handh. B. 



Austr. i. p. 268 ; Ramsay, Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. ii. p. 183. 

 Acanthiza cuhcivora. Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 189 ; id. Hand-l. B. i. p. 219, 



no. 31.35. 

 Pseudogerygone culicivora, Sharpe, Notes Leyden Mus. i. no. 9, p. 29. 



Adult male. General colour above ashy brown, the wing-coverta 

 and quills with narrow margins of lighter brown, inclining to whitish 

 on the secondaries ; tail white at base, the more central feathers 

 with the extreme bases blackish ; the two middle feathers ashy 

 brown, with a subterminal shade of black, all the others with a 

 broad band of black before the end of the tail, the outer feather 

 tipped with white, the others with a large spot of white at the tip 

 of the inner web ; lores and sides of face light ash-colour, with a 

 spot of dusky brown feathers in front of and behind the eye ; upper 

 and lower margin of eyelid whitish ; throat and chest ashy whitish, 

 becoming purer white on the abdomen and under tail-coverts, the 

 sides of the body washed with ochraceous buif ; thighs brown ; under 

 wing-coverts white, the quills ashy brown below, edged with whitish 

 along the inner web ; " biU and feet black ; iris light reddish yellow " 

 (Gould). Total length 4 inches, culmen 0-4, wing 2-25, tail 1"8, 

 tarsus 0-75. (Mus. Lucjd.) 



Hah. Western Australia. 



5. Pseudogerygone cinerea. 



Gerygone ? cinerea, Snlvad. Ann. Mus. Ciric. Gcnov. vii. p. 958. 

 Pseudogerygone cinerea, Sharpe, Notes Leyden 3Ius. i. no. 9, p. 29. 



Adult male (Atam, July 1, 1875, Beccari; type of species). 

 General colour above ashy grey, the crown slightly mottled with 

 blackish bases to the feathers ; wings browner than the back, the 

 wing-coverts and quills very narrowly edged with ashy grey ; 

 feathers of the rump tipped with white, forming a bar across ; tail- 

 feathers brown, margined with ashy grey, and crossed with an in- 

 distinct band of black near the tip, the outermost with a small, 

 nearly obsolete whitish mark near the end of the inner web ; lores 



