•i2G Mr. E. Brasil on [Ibis, 



" Acanthiza Jlavolateralis. 



" Head and upper part of neck cinereous ; back oliva- 

 ceous ; quills blackish-fuscous, margined with olive; throat, 

 breast, middle of the abdomen, and a line from nostril to 

 above the eye cinereous white ; sides of abdomen bright 

 yellow ; tail fuscous, lateral feathers black, marked near 

 the tip of each with white ; bill and feet black. Length 

 3" 8'", wings 2" V" :' (G. R. Gray, Proc. Zool. Sue. 

 London, 1859, p. 161, no. 9.) 



" Pseudogerygone flavilateralis . 



'•'Adult (type of species). General colour above olive, 

 the head and neck ashy, extending on to the mantle ; the 

 rump a little more yellow than the back ; wing-coverts 

 olive, slightly shaded with ashy ; greater series and primary- 

 coverts dark brown, the former broadly, the latter narrowly 

 edged with pale olive-yellow ; quills dark brown, narrowly 

 margined with olive-yellow ; tail-feathers light brown, edged 

 with olive, all but the centre feathers with a large white 

 spot at the end of the inner web, increasing in extent 

 towards the outermost, where it forms a subterminal bar 

 across the feather ; all the feathers with a broad subter- 

 minal shade of black ; lores greyish white, forming also a 

 narrow line above the eye ; in front of the eye a dusky 

 spot ; round the eye a ring of greyish-white feathers ; ear- 

 coverts and sides of neck ashy brown like the head ; cheeks 

 and under surface of body ashy white, with a browner shade 

 on the chest and sides of the breast, the under tail-coverts 

 slightly tinged with yellow ; sides of the body pale lemon- 

 vellow ; imder wing-coverts and axillaries white, with a 

 slight wash of pale yellow ; quills brown below, margined 

 with white along the inner web. Total length 3"6 inches, 

 culmen 0*4, wing 2, tail 1*6, tarsus 0*7." (R. B. Sharpe, 

 Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. iv. 1879, p. 222.) 



There is, in my opinion, absolutely no room left for a 

 doubt, and, if the authors who later on have studied the 

 ornithological fauna of New Caledonia have never thought 



