24. rtETEROMTIAS. 239 



and the white dress, is also descriljed and figured by MM. Hombron 

 and Jaequinot. 



Hal). Eidi or Truk Islands, Caroline group. 

 a, b. cJ ad. sk. [Caroline Islands.] Purchased. 



24. HETEROMYIAS. 



I'cecilodryas, liunisay, pt. 



IlBad and foot of Hc'cromijias cinereifroiis. 

 liangc. North-eastern Australia. 



I. Heteromyias cinereifrons. 



Pcecilodryas ? cinereifrons, Ramsay, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 588 ; id. Proc, 

 Linn. Soc. N. S. TV. ii. p. 182. 



Aihilt (typo of species). General colour above rusty brown, the 

 head and nape dark asliy grey, shaded slightly with brown except 

 ou the forehead, which accordingly looks lighter grey ; over the eye 

 a broad streak of light French grey extending to the sides of the 

 nape ; feathers in front of the eye dusky greyish black ; round the 

 eye a ring of white feathers, blackish where it joins the loral spot 

 before and the ear-coverts behind ; fore part of cheeks and feathers 

 just below the eye white ; oar-coverts rusty brown, blackish just 

 under the eye ; a chin-spot and feathers at base of lower mandible 

 greyish black ; throat and centre of breast and abdomen white ; 

 chest and fore neck, as well as the sides of the breast, light grev, 

 the sides of the body and under tail-coverts tawny buff; thighs 

 grey ; under wing-coverts white, the axillaries tipped with ta^nny ; 

 greater series dark ashy, forming a patch on the under wing-coverts ; 

 quills ashy brown below, white at the base of both webs : upper 

 wing-coverts ashy grey, the median and greater series dark brown 

 slightly shaded with rusty brown ; bastard wing externally ashv 

 grey, internally dark jjrown ; primary-coverts iiniform (lark brown'; 

 quills dark brown, ])aler towards the tips, edged externally with 

 rusty brown, the inner secondaries entirely of the latter colour and 

 resembling the back, all the quiUs but the latter white at base, 

 foi-ming a bar across the wing ; upper tail-coverts rufous, the tail- 

 feathers brown, washed on the edges with rusty brown, inclining to 

 rufous near their bases, the outer feathers narrowlj' tipped with 

 white on the inner web. Total length (y'S inches, culmen 0*7, wing 

 '3-8o, tail 2-7, tarsus 1-2. {3Ius. Auntr. Si/diuy.) 



Ifah. Dalrymple's Gap, near Cardwell, Queensland, Feb. 1874. 

 {Ramsdi/.) 



