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dusky bases to the feathers ; lower throat and fore neck, as well as 

 the sides of the body, flauks, and thighs, fulvous-brown ; breast and 

 abdomen isabelliiie, clearer white on the latter and ou the under 

 tail-coverts, the latter mottled with black bases ; under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries pale tawny buff. 



Young birds gain the adult plumage by the first moult, and speci- 

 mens are often seen with the throat spotted with black. D. hivittata 

 of Reichenbach is merely a bird which has not quite completed its 

 moult ! 



Hah. Australia. 



a. Ad. st. 



b, c, d. Ad. sk. 

 e. ^ imiii. sk. 

 /. Imm. sk. 



g. Ad. ; h. Imm. 



sk. 

 i, k, I. Ad. ; ?h. 



Juv. sk. 

 n. Ad. ; o. Imm. 



sk. 

 p, q. Ad. St. 



r. Ad. ; s-v. Imm. 



sk. 

 w. (f ad. sk. 



X. j/, z. J ad. ; a', 



b'. $ad. .?k. 

 c'. Ad. sk. 

 d. cf ad. sk. 



Australia. 



Australia. 



New South Wales. 



Richmoud River. 



Queensland. 



Queensland (J. T. Cockerell). 



Cape York. 



Cape York, 



Thursday Island, Torres Strait, 



July 1881 {Dr. Coppinger). 

 West "Island, Torres Straits, 



Oct. 1881 (Dr. Coppinger). 

 Port Darwin, Oct. 1881 (Dr. 



Cojjpinger). 

 Port Albany (C. Co.ven). 

 Mabiak, Torres Straits ( O. 



lYnscJi). 



Dr. Giinther [P.]. 

 Forbes Coll. 

 Gould Coll. 

 A. P. Goodwin [C.]. 

 Forbes Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



J.B. JiJ£es,Esq.[P.]. 



J. Macgillivrav, Esq. 



[C.]. 

 Yoy. H.M.S. ' Alert.' 



Yoy. H.M.S. 'Alert.' 



Yoy. H.M.S. 'Alert.' 



Tweeddale Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 



12. Munia nigriceps, 



Donacola nigriceps, Raimay, Proc. Linn. Soc. X. S. W. i. p. 392 



(1877) ; Sharjje, Linn. Soc. Jonrn., Zool. xiii. p. 501 (1877), xiv. 



p. 688 (1879) ; Ramscnj, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. iii. p. 289 



(1879), iv. p. 100 (1879). 

 Donacicola nigriceps, Salvcid. Ann. Mus. Genov. xvi. p. 195 (1880) ; 



id. Orn. Papuasia etc. ii. p. 4-tl (1881) ; Sharpe in Gould's B. 



New Guinea. i\. ^\. 2o (1881); id. Linn. Soc. Journ., Zool. xvi. 



p. 442 (1882). 



Adult. General colour above delicate burnt-sienna, with ashy 

 shading to the feathers of the back ; the rump and upper tail-coverts 

 orange, with dusky bases to the feathers ; tail-feathers pointed, dark 

 brown, with straw-yellow mai-gins, the two centre feathers almost 

 entirely straw-yellow ; head and nape chocolate-brown, veined with 

 streaks and spots of ashy whitish, the nape-feathers edged with the 

 latter colour ; lores, feathers above the eye, entire sides of face, 

 and throat uniform black ; fore neck and chest entirely pinkish 

 fawn-colour, forming a large plastron, succeeded by a band of black 

 across the lower breast ; centre of the body and abdomen pure white ; 



