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and margined with white towards their ends, the inner secondaries 

 tipped with white, all the quills with a distinct white base to both 

 webs, forming a conspicuous bar across the wing ; tail brown, 

 tipped with white, the tips becoming gradually broader towards the 

 outer feathers ; a broad white eyebrow drawn from the base of the 

 nostrils along each side of tlie crown ; in front of the eye a blackish 

 spot; ear-coverts dark brown, with indistinct whitish shaft-lines; 

 feathers below the fore part of the eye white ; cheeks and throat 

 white, extending backwards onto the sides of the nock ; remainder 

 of under surface of body white, with au ashy shade on the chest 

 and breast, the flanks somewhat washed with brown ; under wing- 

 coverts white, the greater series bro-wn, forming a patch near the 

 outer edge of the wing ; quills dark brown, white at the base and 

 along the inner web ; " bill and feet black ; iris reddish brown " 

 {Gould). Total length 5-2 inches, cidmen 0-55, wing 2-9, tail 2-45, 

 tarsus 0*75. 



Hah. N.E. Australia. 



a. Ad. St. N.E. Australia. Jidius Breucbley, Esq. [P.]. 



3. Pcecilodryas cinerea. 

 Pcecilodryas cinerea, Sharpe, Notes Leyden Mus. i. no. 7, p. 25. 



Aihdt female (type of species). General colour above bluish grey, 

 a little duller on the head ; wings browner than the back, the least 

 vnng-coverts only grey like the latter, the secondaries with a small 

 brown spot at the tip ; upper tail-coverts black : the two centre taU- 

 feathers black, the rest white for the basal half, black for the 

 remainder ; a line across the base of the forehead, lores, and feathers 

 round the eye dusky blackish, the ear-coverts also washed with 

 dusky ; cheeks and under surface of body white, washed with grey 

 on the sides of the breast and flanks ; imder wing-coverts blackish, 

 with a white spot near the outer edge of the wing ; quills dusky 

 blackish below, with a considerable amount of white near the base 

 of some of the quills. Total length 5-() inches, culmen 0-65, wing 

 3-35, tail 2-4, tarsus 0-S. {Mus. Lucid.) 



Bah. " Noisaroe," Arfak Mountains, January 16th, 1876. 

 {Bruijn.) 



4. Pcecilodryas brachyura. 



Leucophantes brachyuius, Srhiter, P. Z. S. 1873, p. G91, pi. 53 ; 



S(dvad. Ann. Mm\ Ciric. Gciiov. vii. p. 910, x. p. 133. 

 Amaurodryas albotajniata, Meyer, Sits. k. Akad. Wien, Ixix. p. 498, 



Ixx. p. 128. 

 Pojcilodryas brachj-ura, Sharpe, Notes Leyden Mus. i. no. 7, p. 25. 



Adult male (Ansus, Jobi : Beccarl). General colour above dark 

 slate-colour, uith lighter brown shaft-lines to some of the dorsal 

 feathers ; crown of head, sides of face, and ear-coverts black, with a 

 broad white eyebrow from the base of the nostrils to the sides of 

 the nape : cheeks and entire under surface of l)ody i)ure white, the 

 thighs with dusky bases ; under wing-covcrts black, except the outer 



