24 (EDICNEMIDJl. 



light ashy brown freckled with dusky mottlings, the other feathers 

 also slightly freckled with dusky ; crown of head and neck like the 

 back ; lores blackish, as also a broad band along the sides of the 

 crown, extending to the sides of the neck, where it joins the black 

 ear-coverts and encloses the white of the face, which consists of a 

 white band above and below the eye extending above tbe ear-coverts ; 

 cheeks white, extending in a line along the base of the upper 

 mandible and forming a streak in front of the eye ; fore part of 

 cheeks black ; chin and throat white ; lower throat ashy brown, 

 streaked with darker brown, as also the sides of the neck ; breast 

 pale ashy ; remainder of the under surface of body white with a 

 slight tawny tinge ; under tail-coverts tawny buff ; under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries white, as also the quill-lining : " base of bill 

 sulphur-yellow, continued along the sides of the upper mandible 

 above the nostrils ; remainder of bill black ; tibia lemon-yellow ; 

 tarsi and feet wine-yellow ; upper ridge of scales of toes lead-colour ; 

 eyelids primrose-yellow ; iris pale yellow " (J. Gould). Total 

 length about 19 inches, culmen 3, wing 10-8, tail 4-3, tarsus 3-3. 



Adult female. Similar to the male in colour. Total length about 

 20 inches, culmen 2-8, wing 10-6, tail 4-3, tarsus 3-3. 



Youtuj. Two specimens from the Duke of York Island and Guadal- 

 canar are apparently immature, having the feathers of the upper 

 surface tipped with sandy buff, especially on the wing-coverts, where 

 the white band on the median series is not so defined as in the 

 adults, but showing a broader band of brown-tipped feathers below. 

 There is, however, a second white band formed by the white tips 

 to the greater wing-coverts, and it is somewhat curious that this 

 should be a sign of immaturity. 



Hah. Shores of Australia and throughout the Malayan Archipelago 

 to Borneo and the Andamans. 



a. Ad. sk. Australia. J. B. Jukes, Esq. [P.]. 



b. Imm. st. Australia. Sir E. Belcher [P.]. 



c. Ad. st. Australia. Earl of Derby [P.]. 



d. Ad. sk. Queensland (J. T. Cockerell). Salvin-Godruan Coll. 



e. 2 ad. sk. Port Molle, Queensland Voy. H.M.S. ' Alert.' 



(Dr. Coppinger). 



f. Ad. sk. Rockingham Bay, May 24 Captain Owen Stanley 



(J. Maajiltirrmi). [P.]. 



(j. $ ad. sk. Admiralty Island's.' Voy. H.M.S. 'Chal- 

 lenger.' 



h. d juv. sk. Guadalcanal-, Solomon Isl., Gould Coll. 



Dec. 26 (J. Macgillivray). 



i. 2 J uv - s k- Duke of York Island, Oct. 15 Sharpe Coll. 



(Dr. Klein schmidt). 



k. Ad. sk. Huon Gulf, Eastern New Tweeddale Coll. 



Guinea (Dr. Comrie). 



l,m. Ad.sk. Am Islands. Wallace Coll. 



w. Ad. sk. Aru Islands. Tweeddale Coll, 



o. 2 ft d- sk. Khhnoen Isl., Tenimber Dr. H. O. Forbes [C.]. 



Group, Sept. 1. 



