230 MUSCICAPID^. 



Acanthiza personata, Gray, Hand-l. £. i. p. 219, no. 3128. 

 Gervgone tiavida, Jtamsai/, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. TV. ii. pp. 53, 183 



( $ )• 

 Pseudogerygone personata, Sharpe, Notes Leyden Mm. i. no. 9, 

 p. 28. 



Adult »»ffZe(type of species). General colour above olive greenish, the 

 upper tail- coverts browner ; ■wiug-coverts like the back, the greater 

 series and the quills with narrow and yellower edges; tail-feathers 

 light brown, with obscure olive margins, the outer featliers with 

 paler tips to the inner webs ; forehead, feathers in front of the eye, 

 and ear-coverts dull brown, a loral spot and broad moustache white ; 

 throat brown : remainder of under surface sulphur-yellow ; the 

 under wing-coverts paler white, washed with the yellow of the 

 breast. Total length 3-7 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 2-2, tail 1-7, 

 tarsus 0"7. 



Adult female. Similar to the male on the upper surface of the 

 body, the quiUs edged with slightly brighter yellow ; tail-feathers 

 brown, edged with olive-greenish, and having an indistinct blackish 

 shade before the end of the tail ; a large white loral spot ; ear-coverts 

 brown, tinged with olive ; eye-ring ashy whitish ; cheeks and chin 

 white ; rest of under surface bright yellow from the upper throat 

 downwards ; thighs brown ; sides of upper breast ashy brown ; under 

 wing-coverts jjale yellow ; quills dusky brown, whitish along the 

 inner web. Total length 3-7 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 1-95, tail 1-5, 

 tarsus 0'65. (Mus. F. DuCane Godman.) 



Hah. N.E. Australia. 



a. (S ad. sk. Cape York. John Gould, Esq. (Type of species.) 



24. Pseudogerygone palpebrosa. (Plate VI.) 



Gerygone palpebrosa, Wall. P. Z. S. ISGo, p. 475 ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. 



Civic. Genov. xii. p. 344. 

 Acantliiza palpebrosa, Gray, Hand-l. B. \. p. 220, no. 3143. 

 Gerygone melanothorax, Salvad. Ann. Mies. Civic. Genov. xii. p. 956. 

 Pseudogerygone palpebrosa, Sharpe, Notes Leyden Mus. i. no. 9, 



p. 28. 



Adidt male (Profi, Mount Arfak, July 9, 1875, Beccari ; type of 

 G. melanothorax). General colour above dark green, duller on the 

 head and neck ; wing-coverts dusky bro-^ni, narrowly edged with olive- 

 yellow ; tail-feathers dark brown, margined with olive, and almost im- 

 perceptibly blacker towards their ends, with the faintest indication 

 of a white spot near the tips of the inner web of the outermost ; 

 forehead, feathers over the eye, ear-coverts, sides of face, and entire 

 throat and fore neck black ; a distinct loral spot of white ; cheeks 

 with a broad spot of white ; remainder of under surface of body 

 bright sulphur-yellow, slightly washed with green on the sides of 

 the body, the black feathers on the lower fore neck tipped with 

 green like the adjoining sides of the breast ; thighs yellow ; under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries white, strongly washed with yellow ; 

 quiUs dusky brown below, whitish along the edge of the inner web. 



