17. PACHYCEPHALA. 201 



Culmen. Wing. Tail. Tarsus. 



Total 

 lengtli 

 in. in. in. in. 



d" ad 7-7 0-9 4-2 3-0 I'O 



d juv 6-8 0-8 .3-35 2-6 1-0 



c? juv. (type of P. c/ins- 6-0 075 3-4 2-5 1-0 

 tophori, Tristr.). 



Hah. Solomon Islands. 



a. (S ad. sk. Solomon Islands. Pui'chased. 



b. (j" juv. sk. Reclierche Bay, San Julius BrencMey, Esq. [P.]. 



Christoval, Sept. 1865. 



c. S juv. sk. Solomon Islands. Lieut. Riehards [C.]. (Type 



of P. christophori, Tristr.) 



d. S juv. sk. San Christoval, Solomon Lieut. Richards [C.l. 



Islands, May 21, 1879. 



17. Pachycephala torquata. 



Pachycephala torquata, E. L. Layard in P. Z. S. 1875, p. 150 ; id. in 



Ibis, 1876, pp. 146, 154, 392 ; liatnsay in Proc. Linn, Soc. N. S. W. 



i. (1877), p. 77; Roioley, Orn. Misc. ii. (1877), p. 395, pi. Ixxiv. 



( c? $ ) ; Layard, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 147. 

 Pachycephala vitiensis (pt.), Finsch i^ Hart I. Faun. Centr.-Polyn. 



p. 74, tab. viii. f. 3 ( 5 tantuni). 

 ? Pachycephala intermedia *, Layard, Ibis, 1876, p. 154 ; id. P Z S 



1879, p. 147. 



Adult male (type of species). General coloiir above dull yellowish 

 olive ; wing-coverts black, with olive- coloured edges ; quills black, 

 margined with brown ; upper tail-coverts brownish olive ; crown 

 sides of the head, and ear-coverts deep shining black ; cheeks, chin, 

 throat, and the whole under surface of the body brilliant orange- 

 yellow, with a narrow black collar across the chest connected with 

 the black ear-coverts ; tail entirely black, with the tip a little 

 paler ; under wing-coverts white, edged with bright yellow ; edge 

 of wing bright yellow ; quills below blackish brown, internally edged 

 with pale rufous ; " bUl black ; feet horny brown ; u-is brown " 

 (ff. L. Layard). 



Adult female {type of species). General colour above, includiuo- 

 the head and upper tail-coverts, duU chocolate-brown tinged with 

 olive ; wing-coverts dark brown, externally washed with rufous ; 

 quills also dark brown, the primaries narrowly edged with pale 

 rufous, the secondaries broadly edged with rufous-brown ; tail 

 blackish brown, the tips of the feathers a little Lighter ; lores dusky 

 greyish ; ear-coverts dull rufous-brown ; cheeks and throat uniform 

 pale rufous-buff, with dusky centres and edges ; chin whitish ; rest 

 of the under surface of the body fawn-colour, deepening on the breast 

 into pale reddish brown, paling into buii' on the abdomen and flanks • 



* P. intermedia, Layard, described from Viti Levu, with " a perfect though 

 narrow black ring round the neck," is ver^- probably the same as P. torqitafa 

 Layard. 



