17. PACnYCRrHALA. 191 



pi. viii. fig. 3, op. cit., as has been already supposed by Dr. Finseh, 

 is the female of P. torquata. 



S . Total length 6 inches, culmen 0'6o, wing 3'5, tail 2'5, tarsus 1. 



2 . Total length 6 inches, culmen 0-7, wing 3'4, tail 2-5, tarsus 1. 



Bab. Fiji Islands. 



a. d ad. sk. Ngau (Dr. Rayner). H.M.S. ' Herald.' 



(Type of species.) 



b. 2 ad. sk. Ngau {Dr. Rayner), Oct. 18o8. H.M.S. ' Herald.' 



c. (S <id. sk. Kandavu, June 19, 1876. Mus. Godeffroy. 



d. 5 juv. sk. Kandavu, Sept. 1876. Mus. GodeHroy. 

 e,f. 2 ad. and juv. Kandavu. V'oy. of H.M.S. 



' Challenger.' 



Ohs. Specimens c to /are intentionally placed here, and not under 

 the following subspecies, as I cannot find any difference from the 

 birds from Ngau, whilst Mr. Ramsay's description of his P. kanda- 

 vensis does not apply to them. 



Subsp. a. Pachycephala kandavensis. 



Pachycephala kandavensis, E. P. Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. 

 ii. 1877, p. 6o. 



Adult male. The whole of the head, ear-coverts, and a narrow 

 crescentic band, widest on the sides and extending across the chest 

 from the lower ear-coverts, jet-black ; a narrow collar round the 

 back, widest on the sides of the neck, and a patch joining it to the 

 chest, bright yellow ; the throat, inside the black pectoral band, 

 pure white ; the breast and remainder of the under surface bright 

 gamboge-yeUow, of a slightly deeper and duller tint on the abdomen 

 and under tail-coverts ; under surface of the wings dark brown, the 

 margins of the inner webs of the quills towards the base huffy 

 white ; the under wing-coverts white, tinged with yellow ; inter- 

 scapular region, back, and remainder of the upper surface yellowish 

 olive ; wings blackish brown, the coverts and scapulars broadly, and 

 the quills narrowly, margined with yellowish olive ; tail dark brown 

 above, paler below, the two centre feathers and outer webs of the 

 remainder tinged with olive-yellow ; bill black ; feet greyish brown ; 

 iris reddish brown. Total length (exclusive of bill) 5-5 inches, wing 

 3'o, tarsus 1, tail 2-6 ; bill from forehead 0*7, from nostril 0*4, from 

 gape 0-8. 



The male of this species may be recognized by the narrow line of 

 black across the lower part of the chest, and by its being of a nearly 

 even width throughout, or, if any thing, wider on the sides than in 

 the centre of the chest, and by the large extent of white on the 

 throat. 



Female (not quite adult). Above olive-brown, slightly tinged 

 with olive-yellow ; wings and tail blackish brown ; the upper wing- 

 coverts and inner secondaries broadly margined and tipped with rich 

 cinnamon or rufous-brown, the remainder of the quills narrowly 

 margined on the outer webs with the same colour ; a few feathers of 

 the upper t;iil-coverts cinuamon-browu ; the head dark brown, 



