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thighs blackish, washed with dark crimson; under wing-coverts 

 and axillaries white ; quills ashy below, with an indistinct white 

 bar across the basal portion of the quills. Total length 4-1 inches, 

 culmen 0-5, wing 2'35, tail 2-1, tarsus 0-6. (Mus. Lwjd.) 

 Hah. Arfak Mountains, N.W. New Guinea. 



15. Pseudogerygone chrysogastra. 



Gerygone chrysogaster, Gray, P. Z. S. 1858, p. 174 ; id. Cat. B. New 

 Guinea, p. 25; id. P. Z.' S. 1861, p. 434; Finsch, Nevr-Guinea, 

 p. 166 ; Sahad. i^- D' Albert. Ann. Mus. Civic. Gcnov. vii. p. 820 ; 

 Salvad. t. c. p. 956, ix. p. 26 ; Sharpe, Journ. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 495. 



Acanthiza chlorogaster, Graij, Hand-l. B. i. p. 219, no. 3131. 



Pseudogerygone chrysogastra, Shaiye, Notes Leyd. Mus. i. no. 9, p. 29. 



Adult male. General colour olive-brown, the upper tail-coverts 

 more rusty brown ; wing-coverts like the back, the greater series 

 darker brown, narrowly edged with olive-brown like the back; 

 quills dark brown, externally edged with olive; tail dark brown, 

 edged with rusty brown like the upper tail-coverts ; lores and eye- 

 lid dull white ; ear-coverts and sides of face light ashy brown ; 

 cheeks, throat, and breast white, the remainder of the under surface 

 sulphur-yellow, the thighs browner ; under wing-coverts pale yel- 

 low, with white bases ; " biU and feet dusky " ( Wallace) ; iris 

 black (D'Albertis). Total length 4-7 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 2-2, 

 tail 1"8, tarsus 0*65. 



Adult female. Similar to the male in colour. " Bill black, feet 

 pale reddish white " ( Wallace). Total length 4-2 inches, culmen 

 0'45, wing 2, tail 1*7, tarsus 0-65. 



Hah. Am Islands and South-eastern New Guinea ; island of 

 Jobi, in the Bay of Geelvink. 



n,b.(S2 ^^- sk. Ai-u Islands. A. E. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



(Types of species.) 



c. c7 ad. sk. Aru Islands. A. K. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



d. Ad. sk. Aru Islands ( Voti Leiden Museum [P.]. 



Bosenbery). 



16. Pseudogerygone arfakiana. 



GeiTgoue ? arfakiana, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. vii. p. 960, 



X. p. 148. 

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



Adult inale (Arfak, May 11, 1875, Beccari; typo of species). 

 Above dusky olive-green, the lower back and rump more olive- 

 brown, the upper tail-coverts rufous-brown ; tail-feathers brown, 

 with rufous-olive margins, and having an indistinct shade of darker 

 brown a little before their ends ; wing-coverts like the back ; pri- 

 mary-coverts dusky brown, edged "with olive ; quills dusky brown, 

 margined with yellowish olive ; lores and a ring of feathers round 

 the eye dull whitish ; sides of face dull white, the ear-coverts dusky 

 ash ; throat and under surface of body dull whitish, washed with 

 fidvous on the chest, lower flanks, and under tail-coverts ; sides of 

 neck and sides of breast dusky ash-grey washed with olive ; thighs 



