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young of many species have faint cross-markings on the underparts 

 of the body. About 50 species. 



Range. Indian and Australian regions (except New Zealand). 



Key to the Species. 



I. Under surface rich yellow. 



I". Pectoral collar jet-black : above olive-yellow. 

 a. Throat white. 

 a'. Head black. 

 a". Tail black. 



a'". Chin black mentalis, p. 189. 



b'". Chin white. 



a*. The black pectoral collar and a yel- 

 low band round the hind neck 

 very distinct. 



«'. Breast orange-yellow schlegeli, p. 195. 



b^. Breast gamboge-yellow fulvotincta, 



a\ Total length 6-7 inches ; fe- [p. 196. 



male below isabelhne-yellow. rnelanura, p. 185. 

 6*. Total length 6 inches ; female 



below cinnamon-colour .... vitiensis, p. 190. 

 b*. Pectoral collar very narrow ; no 



yellow band round the hind neck, soror, p. 196. 

 b" . Only the terminal part of the tail 

 black, 

 c'". Basal part of tail grey, washed with 



olive gutturalis, p. 1 92. 



d'". Basal part of tail simply grey ocddentalis, p. 193. 



c". Tail entirely grey glaucura, p. 194. 



d" . Tail olive, but inner web dark brown ; 



total length 6 inches chlorura, p. 194. 



Poecilodryas cyana, Salvad. op. cit. xiv. p. 502 (1879) ; id. Orn. Paptas. e 

 Molucche, ii. p. 89. 



Head of Pcecilodryas cyana. 



Scales in front of the tarsus fused into one scutum. Foot and bill differing 

 from those of Packycephala. 



Adult male. General colour above, including the upper tail-coverts, dark 

 bluish slate-colour ; head darker, inclining to black on the forehead. Sides of 

 the head and the whole under surface of the body uniform bluish slate-colour, 

 a little paler than the back ; wing-coverts and quills black externally, very 

 narrowly tinged with slaty bluish ; tail entirely black ; " iris, bill, and feet 

 black" (D'Albertis). Total length 6'3 inches, culmen 0'6, wing 305, tail 2'55, 

 tarsus 1. 



Hab. North-western New Guinea. 



d ad. sk. Karons, April 1877. M. L. Laglaize [C.]. 



