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13. Prionochilus obsoletus. 



Pardalotus obsoletus, Miill. Sr Schl. Verh. Nat. Gesoh. Land- en Vol- 

 henk. p. 174 (1839-44) ; Wall. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 486. 



Dicaeum obsoletiim, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 100 (1847) ; id. Hand-l. B. i 

 p. 116, no. 1443 (1869). 



Prionochilus obsoletus, Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 343, pi. xxx. fig 2. 



Adult male (type of species). General colour above dull ashy 

 brown washed with olive, the latter colour a little more distinct on 

 the upper tail-coverts; wing-coverts and quills brown, washed 

 externally with olive, a little lighter on the greater coverts and 

 quills ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts more dusky brown ; tail- 

 feathers dark brown, edged and tipped with olive, the outer feather 

 with a spot of ashy white at the tip of the inner web, smaller on 

 the penultimate feather ; head and sides of face as well as the ear- 

 coverts like the back; cheeks and under surface of body ashy 

 whitish, purer on the abdomen and thighs ; under tail-coverts 

 washed with pale yellow ; sides of upper breast ashy brown ; under 

 wing-coverts and asillaries ashy whitish; quills brown below, 

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

 culmen 0-35, wing 2-3, tail 1*1, tarsus 0-55. (Mits. Lugd.) 



Adult female. Does not differ from the male in colour. Total 

 length 3-5 inches, wing 2-35, tail 2-25, tarsus 0-5. {Mus. Lugd.) 



Hah. Timor and Flores. From the latter island there is a 

 specimen in the Leyden Museum, collected by Semmelink, which 

 seems to be precisely the same as the typical examples, allowing for 

 a little fading of colour in the latter. The two specimens in the 

 British Museum also seem to be identical. 



a. c? ad sk. East Timor. A. R. WaUace, Esq. [0.1. 



b. Ad. sk. Flores. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



14. PrionocMlus olivaceus. 



Prionochilus oUvaceus, Txceedd. Ann. ^- Man. Nat. Sist (4) xx 

 f 536 (1877) ; id. P. Z S. 1878, p. Ill, pi. yiii. fig. .35 Wardlaio 

 Ramsay, Oni. Works Tweedd. p. 658 (1881). 



Adult female (type of species). General colour above dingy 

 yellowish olive, the head like the back ; wing-coverts like the back ; 

 bastard-wing and primary-coverts uniform blackish brown ; quills 

 blackish brown, externally yellowish olive like the back ; tail-feathers 

 blackish, yellowish olive along the outer webs ; lores ashy whitish ; 

 feathers round the eye and ear-coverts yellowish olive ; cheeks and 

 sides of throat ashy grey, slightly tinged with olive ; the breast and 

 sides of the body ashy olive ; centre of throat and fore neck duU 

 white ; abdomen and under tail-coverts whitish with a slight olive 

 tinge ; axillaries and under wing-coverts white, with a dusky patch 

 near the edge of the wing ; quiUs dusky blackish below, white along 

 the edge of the inner web : " bill greyish black, the base of the 



