12. rARMOrTTLA. 13. rRIONOCniLFS. 



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sides of body washed with olivc-ycllow ; under tail-coverts liri-hter 

 yellow ; under win-covcrts and axillaries ashy whitish, washed 

 with yellow and having dusky bases ; quills du.iky brown below 

 ashy along the edge of the inner web. Total length 3-5 inches' 

 culnien 0-3, wing 2-25, tail 1-2, tarsus 0-75. 

 Hah. Tasmania. 



a, be Ad. sk. Tasmania. Ronald Gunn, Esq. fP ] 



?■,, Tasmania. Sir George Grey fPl 



^- ^"i- «1^"- Tasmania. Purchased. ^' 



12. PARMOPTILA*. 



Parmoptila, Cass. Proc. Thilad. Acad. 1850, p. 40 .... P. woShousii. 

 Range. West Africa, 



1. Parmoptila woodhousii. 



Pardalotus woodhousei, Gra,/, Hand-l. B. i. p. 387, no. 58G9 (18G9). 

 IsMe. Head and throat covered with rounded scale-like feathers 

 which are mfous, lighter on the throat, brighter and nearly brick- 

 red on the forehead ; back, wings, and tail light umber-brown with 

 a tinge of greenish on the back ; quills brownish black, edo-ed 

 internal^ with reddish white ; entire underparts (except the thro'at) 

 white, thickly spotted with brownish black ; bill bluish black • Ic-s 

 yellowish white in skin. {Caiisin.) ' ° 



Female Upper parts, including head, brown tinged with olive • 

 underparts lighter, nearly white on the abdomen, with obscure 

 traces of the black spots of the male. No rufous on the head or 

 tiiroRLa 



Total length of male about 4 inches, wing 2, tail 1 1 FPTnilr^ • 

 total length 3| inches. {Cassin.) ' ° ' " ^2- -female. 

 Hah. Gaboon, West Africa. 



13. PRIONOCHILUS. 



Prionochilus, Strickl. P. Z. S. 1841, n 29 p ,-„Ti?®'-n 



Pachyglossa,' Hodffs. in J. A. S. Peng, ^(i ' pi' o' ^^ ^^"''^^Pi""«- 



p. 1009 (184.S) ^ . pr. -, 



Piprisoma, m„th, J. A. S. 'Peng. xiii.'p:394(18'44y P s^mE 

 k^^^^m<,B, PeuJienh. ZTawrffi. &a«s.p.24.5 (1883) .. R tExcicus. 

 liaw,e. Whole of India and Ceylon, extending through the Bur- 

 mese countnes down the Malayan peninsula to Java, Sumatra, 

 iiorneo, the Phihppine archipelago, Celebes, and San-hir. 



* Cnssni refers this West-African genus to the vicinity of Pardalotm 

 Wer luvvu^g seen a spee.men, I have reproduced liis description, and have left 

 the genus where he placed it, until I can fix its position more definite y 



