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claries broadly edged with grey ; tail blackish brown, the central 

 pair slightly tipped with grej- ; crown and sides of the head, and a 

 crescent on th^ chest deep black, separating the white chin and 

 throat from the entirely pure white remainder of the under sur- 

 face, including the under %ving-coverts, the axillaries, and the edge 

 of the wing ; under surface of quills blackish, internally margined 

 with white ; thighs grey, edged with white. Total length oo inches, 

 culmen 0"6, wing '3--i. tail 2-6, tarsus 0-77. " Bill, feet, and iris 

 black " (Salu. 4' tVAlb'.). 



Adult female. As P.fnligiaatu of Ramsay is apparently the same 

 as P. leuco[/aster, Salvad., I give the following description of the 

 female of P. fuli<jinata (Kamsay). "All the upper surface grey- 

 ish ashy brown, with fainth' darker striae down the centre of the 

 feathers on the head, interscapular region, and upper tail-coverts ; 

 wing and tail dark brown, ligliter below ; the primaries very nar- 

 rowly, and the secondaries and coverts margined with ashy ; throat 

 white, with short brown shaft-lines ; the chest shaded with light 

 ashy brown, forming an indistinct cross band, and, like the throat, 

 the feathers are centred with brown shaft-lines ; breast creamy 

 white ; abdomen, flanks, and under tail-coverts white ; under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries creamy white ; inner margin of the primaries 

 and secondaries whitish. Total length b'2 inches, bill U-6, wing 

 3"15, tail 2-4, tarsus U-7." 



Hob. S.E. New Guinea. 



o. S fid. sk. Port Moresby. K. Broadbent, Esq. [C.]. 



46. Pachycephala leucostigma. 



Pachycephala leucostigma, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. vii. p. 933 

 (l67'5j, XV. p. 47 ; id. Orn. Paj). e Mohicche, ii. p. 234 (1881). 



Adult male (type of species) (Atam, July 2, 1875 ; Beccari). 

 General colour above olive-brown, the mantle and hind neck varied 

 with longitudinal ovate streaks of white along the shaft of the 

 feathers ; the head rather darker brown, and the streaks indistinct 

 on the crown, but plainer on the forehead ; wing-coverts olive- 

 brown, the least series tipped with pale ochre : median, greater, 

 and primary-coverts brown, externally edged with reddish ochre ; 

 quills brown, edged with ochraceous brown, inclining to fulvous on 

 the outer webs of the primaries : tail-feathers brown, margined with 

 olive-brown and narrowly edged with dull whitish at the tips ; 

 over the eye a narrow rufous line ; feathers in front of the eye 

 whitish ; sides of face and ear-coverts rufous ; the throat rather 

 paler rufous ; rest of underparts mottled : the lower throat and 

 fore neck duU white, with olive-brown edgings to the feathers ; re- 

 mainder of under surface pale fulvous-brown, white on the abdomen, 

 the feathers barred across with dusky olive-brown ; under wing- 

 and tail-coverts dull rufous : quills brown below, fulvous along tlae 

 inner web ; " bill black ; feet ashy grey ; iris dull yellow " (Beccari). 



