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Hah. Little Key Island. Named in honour of Mr, 

 Heinricli Kuehn^ who has sent a small series of both sexes, 

 adult and young, of this new species. 



Pachycephala examinata, sp. n. 



Differs from P. lineolata, Wall., of the Sula Islands, in 

 having the abdomen (which is white with or without a faint 

 ochreous tinge in P. lineolata) ochraceous buff, and the 

 under tail-coverts buff instead of white. The wing is a little 

 longer, measuring 81-82 mm. The back is more brownish, 

 the grey cap thus becoming more conspicuously in contrast to 

 the back. In the male the throat is white, the chest washed 

 with grey. The female has the underside uniform ochra- 

 ceous buff and the wing only about 78 mm. long. (For the 

 name of the Sula form cf. ' Novitates Zoologicse,' vol. iv. 

 p. 131.) If the name P. griseonota should be adopted it 

 could apply only to the Sula bird and not to the bird from 

 Buru, judging from the description. 



Hab. Buru. 



Pachycephala meeki, sp, n. 



^ ad. Similar to P. leucogaster, but differs in having the 

 black crown less sharply defined and almost passing into the 

 colour of the back, which is much darker and more blackish 

 than in P. leucogaster. The tail and upper tail-coverts are 

 almost pure black and much darker than in the last-named 

 species. The sides of the breast and abdomen are grey, not 

 white. The wing is shorter, measuring only about 82 mm. 

 (against about 90 in P. leucogaster^. P. meeki also differs 

 from P. arctitorques in its grey sides and darker back, the 

 latter species being more closely allied to P. leucogaster than 

 to P. meeki. Measurements of the male: wing 81-83, 

 tail 64, culmen from base 17 mm. 



? ad. Above mouse-brown, more greyish on the upper 

 tail-coverts ; an indistinct line over the eyes and ear-coverts 

 rufous-brown ; throat buffy white ; remainder of under 

 surface rusty buff ; chest with some small and narrow 

 blackish shaft-lines ; middle of abdomen white; sides of 



