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slightly washed with blue. Rest of head, neck, tail, and 

 upper surface, including upper wing-coverts, dark grass- 

 green. Primaries and outer secondaries black with bright 

 blue outer webs ; innermost secondaries green, with the inner 

 webs black, bordered with buff. Sides of head and neck and 

 entire breast buff, strongly washed with yellow. Abdomen, 

 flanks, thighs, and under tail-coverts apple-green. Under 

 wing-coverts apple-green, bright blue along the outer edge. 

 Total length 125 mm,, wing 86, tail 37, culmen 16, tarsus 10. 

 Iris brown ; bill deep brown. 



Hab. North coast of British New Guinea [eoU. Anthony). 



Obs. Named in honour of Mr. Macllwraith, from whom I 

 received the specimen. 



Pachycephala gamblei, sp. n. 



? . Similar to P. rufinucha, Sclat., but with larger beak, 

 larger even than in the male of that species, and the rufous 

 nuchal patch extending over the head to the centre of the 

 crown. Frontal white feathers with dark centres ; olive 

 colour of back slightly darker. Total length about 170 mm., 

 wing 83, tail 67, culmen 21, tarsus 29. 



Hab. Mount Cameron, Owen Stanley Range, 5000 feet 

 {coll. Anthony). 



Obs. Named in honour of Mr. Robert Gamble. 



I take this opportunity of mentioning that Dr. A. B. Meyer 

 described a Pachycephala sharpii in 1884 ; therefore Count 

 Salvadori's P. sharpii, described from Loria's collection in 

 1896, must be re-named, and I have much pleasure in calling 

 it P. salvadorii (nom. emend.). 



Epimachus astrapioides, sp. n. 



Head and upper neck brilliant metallic purple. A bare 

 spot behind the eye. Back and rump brownish black, some 

 feathers tipped with metallic greenish blue. Tail black ; 

 central tail-feathers one third longer than the second pair, 

 and shining steel-blue glossed with purple. Wings black, 

 outer webs with steel-blue reflections. Chin and throat 

 blackish purple, lower neck metallic coppery red, fading into 

 shining coppery green on the breast. Abdomen green, the 



