222 iirscicAPiiJiE. 



brown patch ; sides of the face and ear-coverts brown ; a loral spot 

 of white ; ej-elid white above and below, brown in front and behind ; 

 cheeks and throat white, as also the centre of the abdomen and 

 under tail-coverts ; the sides ot the body slightly fulvescent, more 

 distinctly tinged with fulvous-brown on the fore neck ; under wing- 

 covcrts white, with a slight yellowish tinge ; quills brown below, 

 with whitish edgings to the inner web. Total length 4 inches, 

 culmen 0-45, wing 2-1, taU 1-6, tarsus 0-65. 

 Hah. New Guinea, Island of Jobi. 



a. $ ad. sk. Dorey, New Guinea. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



(Type of species.) 



b. Ad. sk. Dorey, N. G. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



c. $ ad. sk. Sorong, Sahvatti, Feb. 8, Leiden Museum [P.]. 



1868 {Dr. Bernstein). 



8. Pseudogerygone magnirostris. 



Gerygone magnirostris, Gould, P. Z. S. 1842, p. 133 ; id. B. Austr. 



fol. ii. pi. 100; Bp. Consp. i. p. 293; Reichenb. Vijg. Nenholl. 



pp. 220, 288; Finsch, Neu-Guinca, p. 166; Gmld, Handb. B. 



Austr. i. p. 270 ; Bamsay, Br. Linn. Soc. N. S. TV. ii. p. 183. 

 Acantliiza magnirostris, Grat/, Gen. B. i. p. 189 ; id. Hand-l. B. i. 



p. 219, no. 3136. 

 Pseudogeiygone magnirostris, Sharpe, Notes Leyd. Mns. i. no. 9, p. 29. 



Adult. All the upper surface brown ; margins of the primaries 

 slightly tinged with olive ; tail-feathers crossed near the extremity 

 by an indistinct broad band of brownish black ; all the under sur- 

 face white, tinged with brownish buff; irides light brown; bill 

 olive-brown, the base of the lower mandible pearl-white ; feet 

 greenish grey. Total length 3| inches, bill yV, wing 2|, taU Ii, 

 tarsus f {Gould). 



Hah. Port Essington and Port Darwin in North-western Australia; 

 Eockingham Bay in Queensland. 



9. Pseudogerygone flavilateralis. 



Acanthizaflavolateralis, Gray, B. Z. S. 1859, p. 161 ; id. Cat. B. Trap. 



Isl. Pacijic Ocean, p. 15 ; id. Hand-l. B. i. p. 219, no. 3119 ; Marie, 



Actes Linn. Soc. Bordeaux, xxvii. p. 327. 

 Gerygone flavolateralis, Layard, Ibis, 1877, p. 357 ; id. Ibis, 1878, 



p. 254. 

 Pseudogerygone flavilateralis, Shaj-pe, Notes Leyd. Mus. i. no. 9, p. 29. 



Adult (type of species). General colour above olive, the head and . 

 neck ashy, extending onto the mantle ; the rump a little more 

 yellow than the back ; wing-coverts olive, slightly shaded with 

 ashy; greater series and primary-coverts dark brown, the former 

 broadly, the latter narrowly edged with pale olive-yellow ; quills 

 dark brcs^Ti, narrowly margined with olive-yellow ; tail-feathers 

 light brown, edged with olive, all but the centre feathers with a 

 large white spot at the end of the inner web, increasing in extent 

 towards the outermost, where it forms a subterminal bar across the 

 feather ; all the feathers with a broad subterminal shade of black ; lores 

 greyish white, ibrming also a narrow line above the eye ; in front of 



