224 LAXIID-E, 



Total length 5*8 inches, culmeu 0-55, wing 3-5, tail 2'6, tarsus 0"75. 

 (Mus. Civic. Genova.) 



Adult female (Atam, June 'Z'li, 1875 ; Eeccari). Like the male. 

 Total length 5-S inches, culinen 0'55, wing 3'4, tail 2-4, tarsus 0*7o. 

 i^Alus. Civic. Genova.) 



Hub. Arfak mountains, North-western IS^ew Guinea. 



47. Pachycephala lanioides. 



Pachvcephala lanioides, Gould, P. Z. S. 18-"i9, p. 142 ; id. B. Ausfr. 

 foL ii. pi. 69 ; id. Ilandb. B. Austr. i. p. 215 ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 328 ; 

 Grai/, Hand-l. B. i. p. 388, no. 5892 ; Ramsaij, Proa. Linn. Soc. iV. 

 S. TV. u. p. 181. 



" Pach. vertice, plumis auricularibus et pectore nigris ; dorso 

 posteriore fascia castanea ornato ; gutture, abdomine medio, crisso- 

 que alhis ; dorso, lateribus, humeris, necnon primariis secundariis 

 tectricibusque externa cinereis ; Cauda, rostro, pedibusque nigris "' 

 (Gould). Long. tot. 7'5 poll., rostri 1, alse 3-75, caudas 3'25, 

 tarsi 1. 



Hub. jS^orth-west coast of Australia. 



48. Pachycephala cyanea *. 



Muscitrea evanea, Hume, Sti: F. 1877, p. 101 (June) ; id. Str. F. 



1878, vi. p. 207. 

 Niltava leucura, Tiveed. Ann. S^ Mag. Nat. Hist. 1877, p. 95 (Aug.). 

 Trichastoma leuct)proctum, Tweedd. P. Z. S. 1877, p. 366 (read in 



A^i'il, female) ; Hume, Str. F. vii. 1878, p. 318. 



Mr. Hume gives the following description of this interesting 

 bird : — " Adult male. Lores and a narrow band on the forehead 

 black : rest of forehead and a broad baud from forehead over the 

 eves cobalt-blue ; crown and occiput in one specimen the same, but 

 rather duller, in the other verj- much duller, being much inter- 

 mingled with the colour of the back ; the entii'c mantle deep indigo- 

 blue, a little brighter and inclining to cobalt on the shoulder of the 

 wing : on the rump the greyish-white bases of the feathers show 

 through a little ; but I doubt if this would be the case in life. The 

 quiUs, greater coverts, and four central tail-feathers deep hair- 

 brown ; all the feathers edged externally with the colour of the 

 back ; four outer pairs of tail-feathers similar, but with more or less 

 of the inner webs pure white, the outermost of all with only a 

 marginal band ; the next two pairs with nearly the whole inner 

 webs white, and the fourth with the central portion of the feather 



* Mr. Hume says that P. ffrisola, Blyth, is structurally closer to P. cyanea 

 than it is to P. orpheus, Verr., or P. ph>lippcim.<, Wald. I therefore let P. cyanea 

 follow here amongst the other PachyccphalcB ; and as P. cyana of Salvadori 

 has been referred to Pcecilodryas, the objection to having a Pachycephala 

 cyana and a P. cyanea is remo\ ed. 



