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and sides of face ashy grey ; round the eye a dull whitish ring ; 

 under surface of body white, the sides of the upper breast ashy, and 

 the flanks slightly washed with the latter colour ; thighs greyish. 

 Total length 3-8 inches, culmen 0*4, wing 1'9, tail 1'3, tarsus 0'65. 

 {Mus. Civic. Genov.) 



Adult female. Like the male. Total length 3' 5 inches, cul men 0*4, 

 wing 2, tail 1"4, tarsus 0'65. 



Huh. Atam, N.W. New Guinea. 



6. Pseudogerygone brunneipectus. 



Gerygone magairostris, Salvad. Ami. Mus. Civic. Genov. ix. p. 25 {nee 



Gould). 

 Pseudogerygone brunneipectus, Skarjye, Notes Leyd. Mus. i. no. 9, p. 29. 



Adult male. Above dark chocolate-brown, slightly more rufous- 

 brown on the upper tail-coverts ; tail-feathers brown, edged with 

 rufous-brown, and having a broad subterminal bar, the outermost 

 with a faint indication of a pale spot near the tip of the outer web ; 

 wings brown, the coverts and quills edged with the same brown as 

 the back, and slightly washed with olive ; near the base of the bill 

 a narrow loral line of whitish ; spot in front of the eye blackish ; 

 eyelid white ; ear-coverts reddish brown ; throat white ; rest of under 

 surface of the body light ochraceous brown, paler on the abdomen ; 

 under wing-covcrts and axillarics dull whitish, washed with brown ; 

 quills blackish brown, ashy along the edge of the inner webs. Total 

 length 4-2 inches, culmen 0"55, wing 2-25, tail 1-7, tarsus 0'7. 



Young. Tinged with yellow on the underparts, and with olive 

 on the back and wings ; the white spots on the tail-feathers more 

 distinct ; throat dull white ; breast yellow, obscured with brownish 

 edges to the feathers. {Mus. Civic. Genov.) 



Ohs. A species very doubtfully distinct from P. consjncillata, with 

 which Count Salvadori was inclined to identify it after comparing 

 his specimens with the type in the British Museum. 



Hab. North Australia {21us. Godnian), South-eastern New Guinea 

 (Mus. Genov.), and the Aru Islands. 



a. cj ad. sk. Aru Islands (Von Jtosenherg). Leiden Museum [P.]. 



7. Pseudogerygone conspicillata. 



Micrceca conspicillata, Grcuj, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 156; Finsch, Neu- 

 Guineo, p. 170 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 324, no. 4859. 



Sylvia virescens, Blyth, Ibis, 1870, p. 169 (e.v Miill. MS. in Mus. Lugd.). 



Gei-ygone affinis, Meyer, Sitz. k. Akad. Wissensch. Wien, Ixx. p. 116 ; 

 Salvad. Ann. BIus. Civic. Genov. vii. p. 958. 



Gerygone conspicillata, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. xii. p. 343. 



Pseudogerygone conspicillata, Sharpe, Notes Leyd. Mus. i. no. 9, p. 29. 



Adult female (type of species). General colour above olive-browu, 

 a little duller on the head ; wing-coverts and quills dark brown, 

 margined with a narrow edging of the same colour as the back, a 

 little more olive on the secondaries ; tail-feathers ashy brown, edged 

 with olive ; a shade of darker brown before the ends of the feathers, 

 which are lighter and more ashv brown ; in front of the eve a duskv 



