214 LANIID.3-:. 



umber strongly washed with yellow, somewhat darker than the upper 

 tail-coverts ; head dull ashy grey : lores, forehead, and superciliary 

 stripe whitish grey ; ear-coverts reddish brown ; chin and throat 

 white ; breast pale fawn-buff, paler on the abdomen and flanks ; 

 under tail-coverts bright yellow ; thighs pale brownish, terminal 

 half yellow ; under wing-coverts and axillaries whitish, tinged with 

 pale "fawn-colour ; under surface of quills dusky brown, edged with 

 whitish on the inner web ; bill dark umber-brown ; feet grey or 

 lead-colour. Total length 5-5 inches, culmen 0-6, wing 2-85, tail 

 2-4, tarsus O'S. 



Hah. Timor. 



Ohs. Two specimens from Eastern Timor differ from the speci- 

 mens described abovo by having the head of the same colour as the 

 back, and the bill horny brown : they may be young birds. 



a,b, S;c.2 ad. sk. Eastern Timor. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [0.1. 



d, e, f. Jut. ? sk. Eastern Timor. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.J. 



g. Ad. sk. Timor, May 28. J. Gould, Esq. [C.]. 



h. Ad. sk. E. Timor (A. R. Wallace). Gould Collection. 



33. Pacliycephala phseonotus. 



M violestes pliaionotus, Mi'dl. Mus. Lnqd. (type examined ly Salvadori ) ; 



'£p. Consp. i. p. 358 ; Salvad. P. Z. .S'. 1878, p. 84 ; id. Ann. Mus. 



Civ. ix. p. 65 (1876) ; id. Orn. Papuasia e Molucche, ii. p. 230 



(1881). 

 Pachycephala brunnea, Wall. P.Z.S. 1865, p. 478; Gray, Hand-l. 



B. i. p. 389, no. 5903 ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. ix. p. 65 



(1876). 

 Pachycephala senex, von Pelzeln, Verh. k, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xxii. 



p. 429 (1872) ; Metjer, Sitz. k. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Ixix. p. 393 



(i874) ; Sclater, Ibis, 1874, p. 417. 

 Pachycephala phseonota, Salvad. in Voy. 'Challenger,^ Aves, pl. xviii. 



fitr." 1 ; id. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. xv. p. 47 (1879) ; id. Orn. Pap. e 



Molucche, ii. p. 230 (1881). 



Adult. Male and female are alike in plumage. General colour 

 above, scapulars, the outer web of the secondary quills, and the 

 tail-feathers uniform earthy brown ; wing-coverts and quills dark 

 brown, externally edged with the colour of the back; head ashy 

 grey ; lores blackish ; ear-coverts brown ; chin, cheeks, and throat 

 white ; rest of underparts dirty brownish white, more washed with 

 pale brown on the breast and flanks ; middle of abdomen and under 

 tail-coverts almost white ; under wing-coverts, axillaries, and edge 

 of wing white ; under surface of quills dusky, internally edged with 

 white; "bill black; feet pale brown" (IFaZ/rtce). 



Young female. Like the adults, but with the head olivaceous 

 brown {Meyer). 



Total length 6-3 inches, culmen 0-72, wing 3-4, tail 2-7, tarsus 

 0-87. 



Hah. Banda, Ceram-laut, Mysol, Salwatty, Waigiou, Mafor, Ter- 

 nate, Dammar, March, Motir, Tifore {Salvadori). 



