27. HTLIOTA. 



247 



Ailult female. Like the male, but the white on the throat not ex- 

 tending onto the chest, and the bill a trifle smaller. {Id. 1. c.) 



Ilah. Queensland. 



Ohs. Mr. Eamsay speaks of having seen a good many specimens 

 of this supposed new species, llv. Godman's collection contains a 

 single example, which has the loral spot white, with the eye-ring only 

 tinged with rnfous, which also pervades the cheeks and chin. This 

 would seem to indicate that the rufous tinge is a sign of immaturity ; 

 and the species is certainly doubtful. 



11. Poecilodryas papuana. (Plate VIII. fig. 1.) 



Micrceca paptiana, Meyer, Sltz. Geselhch. Isis, 187.5, p. 75 ; id. Ahhandl. 



Dresden, i. p. 9. 

 Leucophantes hypoxanthus, Scdvml. Ann. Mus. Civic. Gennv. vii. p. 920, 

 Pcecilodryas papuana, Sharpe, Notes Lcyden Mus. i. no. 7, p. 25. 



Adidt male (Atam : typo of Leiico];dianies hypo.vantlnis). General 

 colour dull olive-yellow, the shafts of the plumes lighter yellow, the 

 head slightly duller than the back ; wing-coverts like the back ; 

 quills brown, externally edged with dull olive-yellow ; tail brown, 

 washed with olive-yellow on the margins of tho"^ feathers; lores and' 

 a ring round the eye bright yellow ; in front of the eye a dusky 

 spot ; sides of face yellow, the ear-coverts washed with greenish ; 

 under surface of body bright yellow, washed with olive on the sides' 

 of the breast and flanks ; under wing-coverts and axillaries yellow; 

 quills ashy brown below, with whitish edgings to the inner webs! 

 Total length 4-4 inches, culmeu 0-45, wing^ 2-85, tail 1-8, tarsus 

 0-65. {Mus. Genov.) 



Hah. North-western New Guinea. 



a. Ad. sk. Arfnlv Mountain?, New Guinea. 

 h. Ad. sk. Arfak Mountains {Bruijn). 



Dr. A. B. Meyer [C.]. 

 Leiden Museum [P.]. 



27. HYLIOTA. 



Ilyliotn, Swains. C/assif. B. ii. p. 2G0 (1837) 



Typo. 

 II. flaviprastra. 



Wing of Hyliofa flavigastra. 

 Jtawje. Confined to Africa. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Thighs white ; rump whitish .... 

 h. Tliighs black ; rump like the back 



flariiiastra, p. 218. 

 I'iolacea, p. 248. 



