17. PACHYCEPHALA. 213 



Aihdt male. General colour above olivaceous grey ; neck ashy 

 grey, a little deepening on the top of the head, the lores, and the ear- 

 coverts ; lesser wing-coverts ashy grey, the greater and primary ones 

 fuscous black, the others fuscous olivaceous ; wings fuscous, exter- 

 nally edged with olivaceous brown, except the first three and the 

 last three feathers, of the wing, which become blackish near the base 

 of the outer web, and have a white patch on each web ; the last 

 three secondaries uniform olivaceous brown ; tail-feathers fuscous, 

 externally washed with brown ; under wing-coverts fuscous, edged 

 with white ; chin grey ; throat, cheeks, and abdomen white ; on the 

 breast a pale ashy crescent ; flanks and under tail-coverts rufescent ; 

 bill fuscous, pale at the tip ; feet pale in the skin. Total length 

 7'6 inches, culmen 0-63, wing 3-6o, tail 2-45, tarsus 1-32. 



Hah. Arfak mountains. (One male, collected by Mr. Bruijn, in 

 Mus. Civic. Geneva.) 



31. Pachycephala hyperythra. 



Pachycephala hyperythra, Salvad. Ann. Mns. Civic. Genov. vii. p. Q'^-2 

 (1S75), X. p. 142 (1877j, xv. p. 47; id. Orn. Pap. e Molucche, ii. 

 p. 232 (1881). 



Male. Back, wings, and tail warm olivaceous brown, the outer 

 aspect of the quills and tail-feathers more yellowish olive ; crown of 

 head and lores dark slatj'-grey, the feathers below the eye blackish ; 

 ear-coverts dusky brown ; cheeks and throat white ; rest of under 

 surface bright rufous ; under wing-coverts rufescent ; wings below 

 dusky, internally margined with ashy fulvous; "bill black; feet 

 fleshy colour ; iris chestnut" (d'Alh.). 



Female. Similar to the male, but a little smaller in size, and with 

 the forehead and the lores somewhat rufescent. (Salvadori.) 



(S . Total length 6-1 inches, culmen 0*6, wing 3'5, tail 2'45, 

 tarsus 0-8. 



2 . Total length 5-9 inches, culmen 0-6, wing 3-35, tail 2-3, 

 tarsus 0-8. 



The young birds differ from the adult by the chestnut-red colour 

 of the external maigin of the wings and the wing-coverts. They are 

 therefore similar to the young bird of P. griseiceps, Gray. (Salvadori.) 

 Hah. New Guinea. 



a, b. Ad. sk. Astrolabe mountains. Mr. A. Goldie [C.]. 



32. Pachycephala orpheus. 



Ilylocharis orpheus, Verreau.r MS. {teste Jardine). 



Pachycephala orpheus, Jard. Contr. Orn. 1849, p. 129, pi. .30 (female); 



Graxf, Hand-l. B. i. p. 389, no. 5912 ; Finseh, Neu-Guitiea, p. 175 



(1865). 

 Hyloterpe orpheus, Bp. C. A. i. p. 329 (18.50). 



Adult. General colour above greenish brown, passing into dull 

 yellow on the rump and the upper tail-coverts ; wing-coverts and 

 quills umber-brown, externally edged with pale olive-brown: tail 



