212 LANIIDJi;. 



(S . Total length &2 inches, culmen US, wing 3"25, tail 2-9, 

 tarsus 1-2. 



06s. Neither of the specimens in the collection of the British 

 Museum is, I think, a fully adult bird. 



Hab. Arfak mountains, N.W. !Ne\v Guinea. 



a. cS ad ? sk. Arfak momitains, Jan. .30, M. L. Laglaize [C.l. 



187G. 



b. (S juv. ? sk. Arfak mountains, Feb. 16, M. L. Laglaize [C.]. 



I67(j. 



29. Pachycephala olivacea. 



Pachycephala olivacea, Viff. ^ Hoisf. Linn. Tr. xv. p. 241 ; Goidd, 

 Syn. B. Austr. pt. viii. ; id. B. Austr. fol. ii. pi. 73, (^ § ; id. 

 Handh. B. Austr. p. 218 ; Bj}. C A. i. p. 329; Grcnj, Haml4. B. 

 i. p. 389, no. 5908; Ravisay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. ii. p. 181. 



Timixos meruloides, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xi. 1842, p. 195. 



Adidt male. Back, scapulars, and tail uniform brownish olive, 

 a little lighter and yellowish on the iipper tail-coverts ; wing- 

 coverts and quills blackish brown, the secondaries externally broadly 

 edged with chestnuts-olive ; head greyish brown ; ear-coverts blackish 

 brown ; chin and throat greyish white, each feather tipped with 

 brown ; under surface of the body fidvous-brown, deepening on the 

 breast, becoming paler on the under tail-coverts ; thighs fulvous- 

 brown ; under wing-coverts and axillaries pale fulvous. 



The female is like the male, but has the head olive-brown instead 

 of greyish brown ; the general colour above chestnut-olive. Ac- 

 cording to Goidd the young resembles the female, and assumes the 

 adult colouring at an early age. 



S ■ Total length 8 inches, culmen 0*7, wing 3-8, tail 4, tarsus 

 1-3.5. 



5 . Total length 7*5 inches, culmen 0"7, wing 3"7, tail3'8, tarsus 

 1-2. 



Hah. Tasmania and South Australia. 



a. (S ad. sk. Tasmania. Liunean Society [P.]. 



(Type of species.) 



b. S ad. St. Tasmania. Purchased. 



c. 5 ad sk. Tasmania. Ponald Gunn, Esq. [P.]. 



d. Ad. sk. Tasmania. Eyton Collection. 



e. Ad. sk. Tasmania, Gould Collection. 



/, g. Ad. sk. Tasmania. F. D. Godman and 0, 



Salvin, Esqrs. [P.]. 

 h. Ad. sk. Upper Yarra. Gould Collection. 



»'. S ad. sk. South Australia. J. Goidd, Esq. 



k. Skeleton. Purchased. 



30. Pachycephala albispecularis. 



Pachvcephala albispecularis, Sahad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. vii. 



(187.5), p. 931. 

 Pachycephalopsis (?) albospecularis, Salvad. op. cit. xv. p. 48 (1879) ; 



id. Orn. Pap. e Molucche, ii. p. 237 (1881). 



