204 LANIID^. 



20. Pachycephala icteroides. 



Eopsaltria icteroides, Pede, TJn. St. E.vpl, Exp. p. 97, pi. x. f. 3 



(1848). 

 Pacliycepliala flavifrons, Peak, Tin. St. Expl. Eiy. p. 96, pi. x. f. 1 ; 



Gray, B. Trof. Isl. Pac. Oc. p. 20 ; id. Hand-l. B. i. p. 388, 



no. 5888 ; Laxjard, Ibis, 1876, p. 505 ; id. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 147. 

 Pie-grieche a diademe, Hombr. et Jacq. Voy. Pole Sud, pi. v. f. 1 



{yotmff) . 

 Pachycephala icteroides, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 217, sp. 15; Finsch Sf 



Hartl. Beitr. Fami. Centr.-Polpi. p. 76 (1807) ; Grap, Hand-l. B. 



i. p. 380, no. 5887 ; Whitmee, Ibis, 1875, p. 440 ; Layard, op. cit, 



pp. 5, 146, 392, 504 ; id. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 146. 

 Pachycephala hombroni, Bp. C. A. i. p. 329 (1850). 

 Eopsiiltria icteroities, Hartl. Wiegm. Arch. f. Naturg. 1852, p. 100. 

 Pachycephala albifrons, Hartl. Wiec/m. Arch. Naturg. 1852, p. 101 ; 



Gray, B. Trap. Isl. Pac. Oc. p. 20 ; id. Hand-l. B. i. p. 389, no 



5904; Layard, Ibis, 1876, p. 505 ; id. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 147. 

 Eopsaltria diademata, <7«cg'. et Pucher. Voy. Pole Sud, Zool. iii. p. 55, 



t. V. f. 1 (1853). 

 Eopsaltria icteroides, Bj^. C. R. 1854, p. 537 ; Cassin, Tin. St. Expl. 



Exp. p. 161, pi. X. f. 3 (1858). 

 Pachycephala diademata, Gray, B. Trop. Isl. Pac. Oc. p. 20 (1859). 



Adult male. General colour above, including the crown of the 

 head and the upper tail-coverts, deep olive-brown ; wings and tail- 

 feathers black, the outer web of the quills edged with grey ; every 

 one of the tail-feathers narrowly tipped with whitish yellow ; forehead 

 shining yellow, the feathers forming a band on each side from the 

 nostrils to the upper margin of the eye ; lores, cheeks, and ear- 

 coverts black ; chin, throat, and fore neck yellow, tinged with grey ; 

 breast, abdomen, flanks, and under tail-coverts deep bright yellow ; 

 thighs deep olive-yellow ; edge of the wing and under wing-coverts 

 yellowish ; under surface of quills blackish grey, with the basal 

 half and the margin of the inner web whitish ; "maxilla bluish 

 black; mandible, feet, and claws horny brown; iris yellow" 

 (Oracffe), " iris brown" (Peale). 



Two young specimens are like the adult male described above, 

 but differ from it in having the forehead black, just tinged with 

 yellow ; chin, throat, and forehead greyish brown intermingled 

 with yellow ; the outer web of the secondaries and greater wing- 

 coverts margined with reddish brown. 



Another specimen ( c? ), from Upolu, received from the Museum 

 Godeffroy, is exactly like the adult male, but has the chin, throat, 

 and upper part of breast greyish white, only the terminal half of a 

 few feathers tinged with yellow ; the forehead is deep shining yeUow 

 like the whole under surface. 



A young female, from Upolu, is like the young male, but has 

 the edges of the quills and ends of inner webs of the tail-feathers a 

 little lighter ; chin and throat and upper part of breast ashy brown, 

 intermingled with whitish ; the whole head uniform blackish 

 brown and without any sign of a yellow frontal band ; but a few 

 feathers in this region are slightly paler. 



