24 f ATALOOrK OJ BIRDS I'UOM N KW fiUINEA. 



PtILOTIS SIMILIS. 



Ptilotis similis, IIoiiil). & Jacq. Voy. Pole Sud, t. 1/. f. 2, 3. 

 Hab. New Guinea (west const) {Ilninh. S,- Jacq.). 

 a, b. Am Islands. Procured from Mr. AV^illace. 



PtI I.OTIS MI5GAUHYN(HUS. 



Ptilotis megarhynchus, G. 11. Gray, Proc. Z. S. 1858, p. 174- 



S . Brown ; top of head olive, with dashes of black in the middle 

 of each feather; eyes surrounded with yellow; throat yellowish 

 white, with minute dashes of fuscous ; hreast and upper part of ab- 

 domen fuscous, margiiied with yellowish olive ; sides, abdomen and 

 under tail-coverts rufous brown ; under win2;-coverts rufous white. 

 Length 8" ; wings 3" 0'" ; bill 1" 1'". -^ 

 Hab. kvnMRm\^{Wnllacp). - ^^7^,1^//./ 



Ptilotis fumata. 



Ptilotis famata. Mull. (Mus. Lugd.). 



Hab. New Guinea ; River Oetanata (jl/Z/Z/f/-). 



Ptilotis striolata. 



Ptilotis striolata, Miill. (Mus. Lugd.). 

 Hab. New Guinea ; River Oetanata {Mfilter). 



Ptilotis auriculata. 



Ptilotis auriculata, Midi. (Mus. Lugd.). 

 Hab. New Guinea ; Lobo {Midler). 



Tropidokhynchus mitratus. 



Tropiflorhynchus corniculatvs, Miill. Verh. Ethn. j). 21. 

 Trojjiilorhynchus mitratus, Miill.; Sclater, Proc. L.S.vol.ii. p. 168. 

 Tropidorhynchus buceroides, Gould, B. of Austr. ii. pi. 1/ ' 

 Hab. New Guinea (west coast) ; River Oetanata (Midler). 



Tropidorhynchus nov^ guine.e. 



Tropidorhynchus novce yuinece, MUll. & Schl. Verb. Ethn. p. 153. 



Hab. New Guinea (west coast) (Midler). 



II, h. Aru Islands. Procured from Mr. Wallace. /Q<>^-Cf /hfk^.l 



Tropidorhynchus plumigknis. ' 



Tropidorhynchus phimigenis, G. R.. Gray, Proc. Z. S. 1858, \^. 1 74. 



2 . Differs frcjm the former by wanting the knob on the basal 

 jiart of culmen, and l)y the sides of the head beneath the eyes being 

 plumed; the ends of the tail-feathers are margined with brownish 

 white. 



S jnc. Blackish brown; feathers round the base of neck mar- 

 gined with yellow or white. Probably a younger l)ir(l than the 

 female. 



Hah. Ke Island {Wallace). 



