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wing-coTerts black, the others like the secondary quills, dark brown, 

 broadly margined on the outer web with reddish brown ; primary 

 quills black, narrowly edged with greyish ; some of the new secon- 

 daries have already the outer web edged with olive-green ; tail dark 

 brown, tinged externally with olive-brown, with the tips some- 

 what lighter ; under wing-coverts and axillaries white, edged with 

 bright yellow ; edge of wing yellow ; under surface of the body very 

 similar to that of the female described below, but more rufous on 

 the chest and upper breast ; the throat intermingled with single 

 yellow feathers. 



Adult female. General colour above, including the head and the 

 upper tail-coverts, uniform chocolate-brown : wing-coverts and 

 quills dusky brown, the primaries narrowly, the secondaries very 

 broadly edged with rufous, so that the wing when closed seems 

 almost entirely rufous ; tail dark chocolate-brown : under surface 

 of body dull white, thickly mottled with reddish or dusky bars on 

 the throat, and streaked with dusky on the breast ; the sides of the 

 body reddish : lower abdomen purer white ; thighs dusky brown ; 

 under tail-coverts yellowish, with longitudinal dusky brown centres ; 

 under wing-coverts and asillaries pale ashy rufous ; quills below 

 greyish brown, lighter and rufescent on the inner web. 



Total 



length. Culmen. Wing. TaiL Tarsus. 



in. in. in. in. in. 



Ad. e 6-6 0-75 3-7 2-9 1-05 



Ad. (J 6-5 0-7 3-65 2-7 l-Oo 



Juv. S .... 6'3 0-7 3-5o 2-6 1-05 



Ad. ? 6-5 0-7 3-6 ^ 2-9 1-05 



Hah. Fiji Islands. 



a, 6. c? 2 ad. sk. Viti Levu {Kleinschmidt). Mus. Godeffi-oy. 



c. (S ad. sk. Viti Levu, Aug. 1875 Mus. Godefii'oy. 



(Kleinschm idt) . 



d. S juv. sk. Ivandavu, Aug. 31,1874. E. L. Layard, Esq. [G.]. 



e. (S ad. .sk. Ovalau, March 20, 1875. E. L. Lajard, Esq. [C.]. 

 /. (5 ad. sk. Savu Savu Bay, Fiji, Dr. Smith [C.]. 



.Fan. 19, 1877. 

 g. $ ad. sk. Fiji, April 7. Dr. Smith [C.]. 



19. Pachycephala jacquinoti. 



Pie-giieche a masque noii-, Homhr. et Jacq. Voy. Pole Sud, Atlas, 



pi. 5. f. 2. 

 Pachycephala jacquinoti, Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 329. 

 Eopsaltria melanops, Jacq. et Pucker. Voy. Pole Sud, Oiseaux, p. 56 



(1853j. 

 Pachycephala melanops, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 389, no. 5907. 



Very similar to P. astrolabi, Bp., but differing from that species 

 in having the whole throat and fore neck deep shining black. Total 

 length 0-5 inches, bill U-7, tail about 2-75, tarsus 1. 



Bah. Yavao, Tonga Islands {Jacq. et PucJier.). 



