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in its larger size, and in the absence of round buff spots on 

 the back and the middle of the breast. The upper wing- 

 coverts have no blackish bars ; the inner webs of the remiges 

 are deep blackish brown, the outer webs chestnut-rufous 

 with some faint blackish spots on the first three primaries, 

 but without light markings. The central rectrices are 

 chestnut-rufous with some narrow blackish cross-bars, but 

 without any light markings. Under tail-coverts pale rufous 

 at base, buffy white at the tip^ with a narrow rufous border. 

 Wing 172 ram., tail approximately 150 (very much abraded), 

 tarsus 21. 



One specimen from the mountains of British New 

 Guinea. 



Pachycephala rosseliana, sp. n. 



Somewhat intermediate between P. melanura with a black 

 tail and P. collaris with an olive tail, but having the tail 

 blackish, olive at the base, the tips and edges seen on the outer 

 webs of the rectrices broader on the central pair. The yellow 

 collar on the hind-neck is narrower than in P. collaris, and 

 slightly interrupted in the middle by an olive-green patch. 

 The feathers of the thighs are black at the base, yellow at 

 the tip, and with a white spot on one web before the yellow 

 tip. Female above dark olive-brown, more greenish on the 

 rump and upper tail- coverts. Tail with the outer webs more 

 olive than in the male. Chin and throat white, with some 

 dusky tips to the feathers ; breast and abdomen yellow, sepa- 

 rated from the white throat by an ill-defined brownish band. 

 Wing in the male 64-68 mm., tail 68. 



Discovered by Albert S. Meek, on Eossel Island. 



Pachycephala alberti, sp. n. 



Closely allied to P. griseiceps, G. R. Gray, but with a 

 longer and more powerful bill ; throat and breast with more 

 distinct dark shaft-lines in the adult birds, tail with very 

 distinct dark cross-bars in certain lights, wing and tail longer. 

 Wing 87-89 mm., tail 67-68. 



Discovered on Sudest Island by Albert S, Meek, in whose 

 honour it is named. It is, perhaps, only a subspecies of 



