244 irrsciCAPiD^. 



greater coverts, which are white ; quills bhxckish below, narrowly 

 butty white along the inner web ; wings above black, the quills 

 browner, the edge of the wing white ; inner primaries and outer 

 secondaries white at base of both webs, showing a conspicuous bar 

 on the wing : upper tail-coverts slightly tipped with whitish ; tail- 

 feathers dark brown, with narrow white terminal edgings to the 

 outer feathers. Total length 5-4 inches, culmen 0-7, wing 3-25, 

 tail 2-1, tarsus 0-85. (Mus. Oenov.) 



Hah. North-western New Guinea, and the island of Jobi, in the 

 Bay of Geelvink. 



a. $ ad.sk. Andei, N.W. New Guinea, Leydcn Museum [P.]. 



March 18, 1876 {Bmijn). 



5. Pcecilodryas hypoleuca. 



Petroica hypoleuca, Gray, P. Z. S. 18.59, p. 155; Finsch, Neu-Oumea, 



p. 107 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 228, no. 3293. 

 Pacilodi'yas hypoleuca, Sharpe, Notes Leydcn Mus. i. no. 7, p. 25. 



Adult (type of species). General colour above blackish brown, the 

 head rather blacker ; wing-coverts like the back ; quills black, 

 browner towards their ends, with a distinct band of white at their 

 base, caused by the bases of the inner primaries and outer secon- 

 daries being white ; forehead, sides of crown, sides of face, hinder 

 cheeks, and ear-coverts black ; lores, eyelid, and fore part of cheeks 

 white ; under surface of body white, with a few black markings on 

 the centre of the breast, the sides of the latter black, encroaching on 

 the centre and forming a half-collar ; under wing-coverts and axil- 

 laries white, with a patch of black on the greater series near the 

 edge of the wing ; quills blackish below, conspicuously white near 

 the base of the inner webs. Total length 6 inches, culmen 0-55, 

 wing 3'2.5, tail 2-4o, tarsus 0-75. 



Hob. New Guinea ; Mysol ; Waigiou. 



a,h. S ad. sk. Dorey, New Guinea. A. E. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



(Types of species.) 



c. Ad. sk. New Guinea. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



d. Ad. sk. N.W. New Guinea. M. Laglaizo [0.]. 



e. (5 ad.sk. Amberbald, New Guinea, M. Laglaize [C.]. 



May 1877. 

 f.-S ad. sk. Mysol. A. R. AVallace, Esq. [C.]. 



(J. $ ad. sk. Waigiou. A. IJ. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



6. Pcecilodryas bimaculata. 



Myiolestes ? bimacidata, Salcad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. vi. p. 84. 

 Pcecilodryas bimaculata, Sharpe, Notes Leydcn Mm. i. no. 7, p. 25. 



Adult nude (Profi, Mount Arfak: Beccari). Above velvety black ; 

 upper tail-coverts white, formiug a band across; wings and tail 

 black ; sides of face, sides of neck, throat, and breast black, as weU 

 as the flanks and thighs ; abdomen, vent, and under tail-coverts 

 white ; on each side of the chest a broad line of pure white feathers 

 running from the sides of the lower throat to the sides of the upper 



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