17. PACHYCEPHAIA. 225 



white, the white at the base on both webs, but not extending to 

 either margin, and on the outer web onlj- occupying the basal half, 

 while on the inner it reaches to within one fifth from the tip ; chin, 

 throat, cheeks, ear-coverts, sides of neck, breast, aud sides of the same 

 colour as the back, but duller and a trifle more slaty ; greater por- 

 tion of abdomen aud flanks white, shaded, streaked, and overlaid 

 with dusky slate-colour or slaty blue ; vent and lower tail-coverts 

 pure white ; tibial plumes slaty ; edge of wing blue ; axillanes and 

 wing-lining silky grey ; bill black, whitish at the gape ; the legs, 

 feet, and claws pale fleshy brown ; irides deep brown. Total length 

 7-45-7-S inches, tail 2-7-2-9, wing 3-6-3-72, tarsus 0-9, bill from 

 gape 1-0-1 -02." 



Female. Above olivaceous ruddy brown, more rusty at the tip of 

 the upper tail-coverts, grcjdsh on head, a tuige of pale rufous on a 

 narrow frontal band, passing to the pale lores ; tail very similar to 

 that of the male ; shoulder of wing rusty olive, the primaries dull 

 rusty brown ; blotch of white on the upper breast, which is dull 

 pale olive-brown, fading into the pure white of the under tail- 

 coverts ; feet grey, iris dark brown. Wing 3-5 inches, tail 3, 

 tarsus 0"9. (Tweeddale.) 



Hob. Tenasserim (Mooleyit) and Siam. 



Q. Subgeneric group PACHYCEPHALOPSIS. ^ 



o J. Type. 



Pachvcephalopsis, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. xv. 



p. 48 (1879) P. hattamensis. 



Tarsus anteriorly covered with one long scutum. Tarsus and 

 toes comparatively longer than in the true Pachyceplialai. 



49. Pachycephala hattamensis. 



Pachycephala hattamensis, Meyer, Sifz. Akad. Wissensch. Wieu, 



Lxix. p. 391 (1874) ; Oustalet, Bull. Soc. Philom. 1877 ; Salvad. 



Ann. Mus. Civic. Oenov. x. p. 142 (1877). 

 Pachvcephalopsis hattamensis, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. xv. 



p. 48 (1879) ; id. Orn. Paj). e Molucche, ii. p. 236 (1881) ; Gould, 



B. New Guinea, pt. xiii. 



Male. Forehead, head, nape, checks, and ear-coverts grey ; lores 

 white ; back and rump olivaceous green ; chin and upper throat 

 white ; rest of throat, breast, and abdomen dull yellow, somewhat 

 darker on the throat aud breast ; quills brownish, with the margins 

 of the outer web reddish brown ; wing-covei ts grey, edged with 

 olive-colour ; under surface of quills brownish grey ; under wing- 

 coverts hght grey ; tail and upper tail-coverts reddish brown ; under 

 taU-coverts light brown ; the tips of the tail-feathers haviag 

 the shaft pointed and without web [which seems to me the 

 sign of a young bird] ; bill and feet black ; iris chestnut-brown 

 (d'Albertis). Total length 6-9 inches, culmen 0-.54, wing 4-1, tail 2-45. 



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