228 MUSCICAPID^. 



19. Pseudogerygone trocMloides. 



Sericornis? trochiloides, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. vii. p. 961. 

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



Adult female (Xordo, Misori, May 1875, Beccari ; type of 

 species). General colour above dull olive-green, the head a little 

 duller than the back ; wing-coverts like the back, the median and 

 greater series a little more yellow, especially at the tips, forming an 

 indistinct double bar across the wing; primary-coverts and quills 

 dusky brown, edged with olive-yellow ; tail-featliers dusky blackish, 

 edged with olive-green like the back ; lores mottled with dusky 

 grey, with whitish bases ; an indistinct eye-ring of yellow ; ear- 

 coverts dull greyish, washed with olive, and with yellowish narrow 

 shaft-lines ; cheeks and throat yellow ; remainder of under surface 

 olive-greenish, rather more grey on the sides of the body, where 

 the bases of the feathers are grey, the centre of the body rather 

 brighter yellow, the feathers being edged with the latter colour; 

 under wing-coverts and axillaries white, washed with yellow, espe- 

 cially near the edge of the wing ; quills dusky brown below, whitish 

 along the inner web ; bill blackish, the lower mandible yellowish 

 white ; feet yellowish. Total length 3-7 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 

 2-1, tail 1-4, tarsus 0-8. {Mus. Civic. Genov.) 



Young mah (Kordo, May 7, 1875, Beccari). Similar to the adult, 

 but rather more dull in colour and rather paler j'ellow on the under 

 surface. Total length 3-7 inches, culmen 0*45, wing 2-1, tail 1-45, 

 tarsus 0'8. {Mus. Civic. Genov.) 



Ohs. This species, as well as P. poliocephaJa and P. maforensis, is 

 rather aberrant in form, having an enormous bill, strong bristles, 

 long wings, and long silky flank-feathers. 



Hah. Island of Misori, in the Bay of Geelvink, 



20. Pseudogerygone maforensis. 



Gerygone maforensis, Meyer, Sitz. k. Ahad. Wipn, Ixx. p. 120. 

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



Adult femde (Mafoor, March 1873, Dr. A. B. Meyer ; type of 

 species). General colour above dark olive-green, the head greyer, 

 and slightly washed with olive ; wing-coverts brown, edged with 

 olive, the greater series tipped with yellow, forming a bar across the 

 wing ; quills dusky brown, edged with olive-yellow, a little brighter 

 on the primaries; tail blackish brown, narrowly and indistinctly 

 edged with olive ; lores dusky grey ; cheeks and ear-coverts lighter 

 ashy, the latter slightly washed with olive and narrowly streaked 

 with dull whitish shaft-lines ; under surface of body pale greyish 

 on the throat and breast, with yellow streaks, the feathers being 

 edged with olive-yellow ; the abdomen whiter, washed with yellow, 

 the sides of the body ashy grey washed with olive ; under wing- 

 coverts white, the edge of the wing yoUowish ; quills dusky brown 

 below, whitish along the inner web. Total length 3*8 inches, cul- 

 men 0-45, wing 2, tail 1-3, tarsus 0-7. (Mus. Dresden.) 



Hah. Island of Mafoor, in the Bav of Geelvink. 



