224t MUSCICAPID-E. 



fol. ii. pi. 101 ; Bp. Cotisp. i. p. 293 ; Reichmb. Vog. Neuholl. pp. 



220, 288; Fimch, Neu-Guinea, p. 160; Gould, Handb. B. Austr. 



i. p. 270 ; Rmnsmj, Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. ii. p. 183. 

 AcantLiza liBvigaster, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 189 ; id. Hand-l. B. i. p. 219, 



no. 3137. 

 Gerygone simplex, Masters*, Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, i. p. 52 



{nee Cub.) ; Rmnsay, op. cit. ii. p. 183. 

 Pseudogerj-goue Itevigastra, S/iarpe, Xotes Lei/d. 3ftcs. i. no. 9, p. 29. 



Adult (Cape York, J. CocJrerell). Above light brown, a little more 

 fulvcscent browu on the lower back and rump ; tail-coverts brown, 

 with lighter brown margins ; two centre tail-feathers ashy brown, 

 with a subterminal shade of darker brown, the rest of the feathers 

 ashy brown, with a very broad antesubterminal band of black, and 

 having a large white spot at the top of the inner web ; least and 

 median wing-coverts hke the back, the greater series, primary- 

 coverts, and quills brown, with narrow whity-brown or fulvescent 

 edges ; lores white, extending backwards and forming a complete 

 eyebrow ; eyelid above and below white, behind and before brown ; 

 in front of the eye a spot of dusky brown ; sides of face pale ashy 

 brown ; throat and under surface of body pure white ; thighs brown ; 

 sides of breast and flanks ashy brown ; under wing-coverts and 

 axillaries pure white ; quills brown below, white along the edges of 

 the inner web ; " bill olive-brown, base of lower mandible ashy 

 greyt ; feet dark greenish grey ; ii-is light reddish brown " (Gould). 

 Total length 4-2 inches, eulmen 0-4, wing 2-15, tail 1-65, tarsus 0*7. 

 (Mus. F. DuCane Godman.) 



Hah. Port Essington, Port Darwin, Gulf of Carpentaria in Xorth- 

 ern Australia. 



12. Pseudogerygone albifrontata. 



Gervgone albofrontata, Grat/, Voi/. Brebus (5J- Terror, Birds, p. 5. pi. 4. 



fig. 2 ; Bp. Comp. i. p. 293 ; Gray, Ibis, 1862, p. 221 ; Bidler, B. 



New Zealand, p. ill ; Finsch, J. f. 0. 1874, p. 188 ; Sharpe, Voy. 



Erebus 8f Terror, Birds, App. p. 26. 

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



p. 219, no. 3130. 

 GeiTgone frontata, Potts, Tr. N. Z. Inst. vi. p. 144 (lapsu). 

 Pseuciogerygone albifrontata, Sharpe, Xotes Leyd. Mus. i. no. 9, p. 29. 



Adult (typo of species). General colour above brown, inclining to 

 ochraceous brown on the rump and to ochreous fawn-colour on the 

 upper tail-coverts, which contrast with the rest of the upper surface ; 

 tail-feathers brown, all of them fawn-colour near the base of the 

 outer web, and having a broad shade of black near the end, with a 

 subterminal spot or bar near the tip of the inner web ; least and 

 median wing-coverts like the back, the greater coverts and quills 

 dark brown, edged with yellowish brown, lighter on the quiUs ; base 

 of forehead, feathers above and round the eye, as well as a tolerably 



* From the description given by Mr. Masters, I consider liis Gerygone simplex 

 to be the same as G. la-vigajsfer of Gould. Should it eventually be distin- 

 guished from the latter species it cannot bear the name o^ simplex, already appro- 

 priated by Cabanis. and I would propose that of Pseudogerygone mastersi for it. 



t Not so represented in the plate. 



