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breast ; under wing-coverta black ; quills asliy black below. Total 

 length 5-1 inches, culmen 0-6, wing 3'3, tail 2, tarsus 0-85. (J/hs. 

 Civic. Genov.) 

 Uab. North-western New Guinea. 



7. Pcecilodryas albinotata. (Plate YII.) 



Mejjalestes albonotatus, Salmd. Ann. Mns. Civic. Genov. vii. p. 770. 

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



Adult male. General colour above slaty grey, lighter on the sides 

 of crown and forehead ; wing-coverts like the back : primary- coverts 

 and quills black, the latter edged with bluish grey ; tail blackish, 

 washed with slate-colour, the outer feathers edged with the latter 

 colour ; a narrow frontal line, lores, feathei's above the eye, sides of 

 face, throat, fore neck, and centre of breast black ; on each side of the 

 lower throat a large patch of creamy- white feathers : sides of breast 

 and flanks slaty grey, lighter on the latter ; thighs slaty grey ; centre 

 of body below, as well as the under tail-coverts, white ; under wing- 

 coverts slate-colour ; quills ashj' brown below, white along the edge 

 of the inner webs. Total length G-7 inches, culmen 0*8, wing -i'SS, 

 tail 3"1, tarsus 0*85. 



Ilab. North-western New Guinea: Arfak Mountains. 



a. (S ad. sk. Arfak Mountains, Feb. lo, 1876. M. Laglaize [C.]. 



8. Pcecilodryas leucops. (Plate YIII. fig. 2.) 



Leucophantes leucops, Sidvad. An7i. Mus. Civic. Genov. vii. p. 201. 

 Pcecilodrj-as leucops, Sharpe, Notes Leyden Mus. i. no. 7, p. 25. 



yl*?i(?< )»«?<; (Profi, Mount Arfak, Beccari ; type of species). Gene- 

 ral colour above yellowish green ; wing-coverts like the back, with 

 tips of clearer yellow to the greater scri(!s ; primary-coverts sepia- 

 brown, contrasting with the rest of the wing ; quills dark brown, ex- 

 tern all j' edged with yellowish green, rather browner on the seconda- 

 ries ; tail-feathers brown, with narrow linear tips of yellowish white, 

 and washed on the margins with olivaceous brown ; head dark slaty 

 grey,becoming clearer grey on the nape and sides of neck; the forehead 

 and sides of the crown blackish, as are also the feathers in front of, 

 below, and round the eye ; a large loral spot of white occupying the 

 entire space in front of the eye ; ear-coverts dark slaty grey ; cheeks 

 and chin white ; remainder of under surface of body bright yellow, 

 the sides somewhat shaded with oHve-grcenish, especially the sides 

 of the breast ; under wing-coverts and axillaries paler yellow ; quills 

 brown below, rustj' along the edge of the inner web. Total length 

 4'8 inches, culmen 0"55, wing 3-2, tail 2-15, tarsus 0-8. (Mus. 

 Genov.) 



Uab. Arfak ^ronntains. North-western New Guinea. 

 a. Ad. sk. Arfak Mountains. Purchased. 



0. Pcecilodryas capito. 



Eop«altri;i mpito, Goidd. P. Z S. 1851, p. 285: id. B. Austr. folio, 



