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chest and flanks washed with grey ; under wing- and under 

 tail-coverts pale bufF. 



Hab. Rossel Island, Louisiade Archipelago. 



Pachycephala contempta, sp, n. 



The yellow Pachycephala of Lord Howe Island has been 

 treated as the same as P. gutturalis in the ' Catalogue of 

 Birds/ vol. viii., where at least three different species or 

 subspecies are united under the title of P. gutturalis ; but 

 P. contempta, as I propose to call the Lord Howe Island form, 

 dififers from P. gutturalis in having the basal portion of the 

 tail for more than half of its length greenish, often for two- 

 thirds of its length, in having the bill stronger and longer, 

 in having the yellow band on the hind-neck interrupted by 

 pale olive-green in the middle, and in being generally larger. 

 Wing 92-94, tail 83, culmen from base 17-18 mm. Another 

 closely allied form is P. occidentalis, which, however, has 

 the base of the tail grey and the bill rather short. 



Mr. Hartert further characterized a new Humming-bird, 

 which he called 



Cyanolesbia berlepschi, sp. n. 



This was described as the most beautiful of all the Cyano- 

 lesbia, and perhaps the most distinct species of the genus, 

 being more diflerent than any of those inter se. The female 

 was easily recognizable from that of the allied species in 

 having the breast and entire abdomen white instead of 

 cinnamon-rufous. The male seemed to be nearest to that of 

 Cyanolesbia margaretha from Caracas and C. kingi from 

 Bogota, but the outer tail-feathers were longer and much 

 wider, of a peculiar glittering metallic blue ; the central 

 rectrices were not green as in C. margarethcB, but purplish 

 blue with a greenish glitter at the tips. Wing 71, tail 155, 

 outer rectrices 9-10 mm. wide. 



Mr. Hartert stated that the Hon. Walter Rothschild had 

 received a male and four females of this bird from the hills of 

 Cumana in Venezuela, and that there was a second male from 

 Caripe in the British Museum, with the tail not fully grown. 



