17. PACHTCEPHALA. 199 



Adult male. Like the adult male of P. calliope, but larger and 

 much stouter than any other species known at present of the white- 

 throated and yellow-bellied Pachyccphake. " Bill black ; legs purple- 

 brown ; iris dark crimson." 



Adult female. Canon Tristram says " the female is little less 

 brilliant in colour than her mate." The diiferences from the male 

 are the total absence of the black crescent on the fore neck, which 

 in the females is dusky yeUow ; the head is slaty brown instead of 

 black ; the ear-coverts darker brown. The yellow collar on the 

 hind neck is merely indicated by a faint olive-yellow band ; outer 

 web of secondaries broadly edged with olive-brown. Some of the 

 white feathers of the throat are slightly tipped with brownish, giving 

 the throat a faintly freckled appearance. 



The young bird is dai'ker olive-brown, and has the head more ashy- 

 coloured. 



Total length over 7 inches. 



Hab. Loyalty Islands. 



a,b. cJ $ ad. sk. Lifa, Aug. 1878. E. L. Layard, Esq. [C.]. 



(Tvpes of species.) 

 c. Juv.sk. Loyalty Islands. Rev. J. R. \\Tiitmee [C.]. 



15. Pachycephala morariensis. 



Pachycephala morariensis, Verr. Si- Des M. Rev. et May. de Zool. 1860, 

 p. 11 ; G. JR. Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 389, no. 5906 ; Layard, Ibis, 

 1877, pp. 357, 362 ; Tristram, op. cit. 1879, p. 183; GrayinBrenchley, 

 Cruise of the ' Curai^oa^ 1873, p. 376, pi. 12. 



Adxdt male. Above greenish olive, rather yellow on the upper tail- 

 coverts and the tail-feathers: wing-coverts olive-green; primarj'- 

 coverts dark brown, with a slight tinge of green on their outer webs ; 

 quills dark brown, edged with olive-green ; head ashy grey, ear- 

 coverts blackish grey : chin, cheeks, and throat pure white ; across 

 the fore neck a very narrow black crescent, which is not connected 

 with the grey behind the ear-coverts ; rest of the under surface 

 of the body bright yellow, tinged with orange ; thighs and under 

 tail-coverts yellow ; under wing-coverts and axillaries yellowish 

 white ; edge of wing yellow ; quills below silvery grey or darker, 

 the inner web edged ■with white like the basal portion of the quiUs ; 

 " bill black ; legs pale brown ; eyes brown " (BrencJdey). Total 

 length 6 inches, culmen 0'65, wing 3'4, tail 2-85, tarsus 0-95. 



Hab. New Caledonia. 



a. (S ad. sk. Port de France, New Cale- J. Bienchlev, Esq. [P.], 



donia, Oct. 1865. 



b. $ ad. sk. Isle of Pines, Oct. 3, 1853 Gould Collection, 



(/. Macyillivray.) 



