57. MACH^ROEHYNCUrS. 301 



wing-coverts white, with a patch of black near the outer edge of the 

 greater series ; quills blackish, white along the inner margin ; bill 

 black ; feet blackish blue. Total length 4'G inches, culmen 0-6, 

 wing 2-25, tail 2, tarsus O-oo. 



Young. General colour above dull yellowish green, the head rather 

 more ding}- ; wings lirown, with white tips to the median and greater 

 wing-coverts ; quills edged with yellowish, the secondaries with 

 white ; tail-feathers black, edged with olive-jellow, and minutely 

 tipped with white, increasing in extent towards the outermost as in 

 the adult ; feathers in front of eye and car-coverts dull brown ; lores 

 and eyebrow, as well as the forehead, dull golden yellow ; cheeks 

 and throat white ; rest of under surface white, washed with yellow, 

 and deepening into bright j^ellow on the vent and under tail-coverts, 

 the chest mottled with circular markings of greenish ashy ; under 

 wing-coverts and inner margins of quills white. 



Ilab. North Australia. 



a. Ad. St. N.E. Australia. J. Gould, Esq. 



(Type of species.) 



b. Ad. ;e. Juv.sk. Cape York. Mr.'Cockerell [C.j. 

 d. Ad. sk. Cape York. Mr. Cockerell [C.]. 



2. Machaerorhynchus xanthogenys. 



Machperirhvnchus xautliogeuys, Gray, P. Z. S. 18-T8, pp. 17G, 192; 



id. Cat. B. New Guinea, pp. 27, 57 ; id. P. Z. S. 1861, p. 434 ; 



Finsch, Neu- Guinea, p. 168. 

 Myiagra xanthogenys, i?osc»(6. j; /". O. 1804, p. 119; Gray, Hand-l. 



'B. i. p. 829, no. 4938. 

 Macheirhynchus xanthogenys, Schl. A'. T. D. iv. p. 4.3. 

 Machajrorhynchus xanthogenys, Stdvad. Atti It. Accad. Torino, x. 



p. 376. 



Adult male (type of species). General colour above black, with 

 slight remains of yellowish or olive on the sides of the rump and 

 mantle ; wings black, the median and greater coverts broadly tipped 

 with white, the quills narrowly edged with white, the secondaries 

 with ycUow, the innermost more broadly margined with white ; tail- 

 feathers l)lack, minutely tipped with white, increasing in extent 

 towards the outermost, which are also white along the outer edge ; 

 forehead, eyebrow, sides of face, sides of neck, and under surface of 

 body bright yellow ; chin and \ipper throat white ; sides of body 

 slightly washed with greenish ; thighs white ; under wing-coverts 

 white, with a black spot near the outer edge of the greater series ; 

 quills blackish below, edged with white on the inner webs. Total 

 length 5-2 inches, culmen 0"6, wing 2-35, tail 1*95, tarsus O'o. 



Young female. Olive-yellow above, the head darker ; wings brown, 

 the coverts and quills margined with yellow or yellowish white ; 

 tail-feathers brown, edged with yeUow, the outermost edged and 

 tipped with wliito ; forehead, eyebrow, and sides of face dingj"- yel- 

 low, the upper edge of the ear-coverts darker ; cheeks and throat 

 white ; rest of under surface yellow, the breast and sides greenish ; 



