362 ' A NATUHALIST'S WANDEIilXGS 



referred to, have tlxe tips of the remiges quite as broad as in those from 

 Timor-laut. In a Lombock specimen ("ex Stevens") the tips o{ all the 

 feathers are white ; aBatanta and a New-Holland specimen have no white 

 tips at all ; one from, Halmaheira and one from Burn (both from Mr. 

 AVallace's collection) excejjt in one feather, have no white on the remiges; 

 yet all of them have been determined to be, and are undoubtedly A. 



leucogaster (Yal.) [H. 0. F.] 



31. PicRrnoPsis BaAcxEATUS, Gould. 



32* Pachycephala arctitoequis, Sclater, loc, cit, PL XIIL 



P. Icehirensis, Meyer, op. sup. cit. 

 P. vieddii, Meyer, op. sup. cit. 



Supra ciherea , alls caudaque nigris cinereo limhatis, jy ilea niiclia et capitis 

 later ihiis nigris ; snhtus alha, torqne jugidari angiisto nigro ; suhaJarihics 

 et remigum marginihus interiorihus alhis ; rostra et pedihus nigris : long, 

 tola 5"5, ala^, 3'0, caudx 2'2. Fern. Supra ftisca, in pileo ru/escens ; 

 alts nigris extiis rufo limhatis ; suhtiis alha, obsolete nigro striata. 



Hah. Larat, ins. Tenimbcrenscm. 



Dr. "Meyer, in the paper referred to, has described two new species of 

 PacJiycephala, whose names are given above as synonyms. If he is correct 

 in his determinations we have the'cunous fact that, notwithstanding my 

 more thorough examination of a wader field, which included the region 

 whence he obtained his birds, the whole series obtained by me contained 

 no females of P. arditorquis and no males of P. riedelii (were Dr. ^leycr^'s 

 sixiclraens sexed?); while those who made the collection examined by 

 Dr. Meyer, obtained in Babbar (an island at no great distance to the 



W. of Yamdena) females of P. arctitorqtti^, and evidently no males (so 



recognised by Dr. Meyer), and females of P. KefeiVerrs/s (Meyer), Trtrith- 

 out one of its males. I dai^y ?aw the collections made in Timor-laut by 

 the Amboinese hunters maknig this collection, and I feel confident that 

 no species of Pachycephala— one of the groups I am particularly in- 

 terested in— was obtained by them which was not also in my collection. 

 After comparing Dr. Meyer's descriptions wuth the long series I have 

 of this bird, nearly all of which Dr. Sclater had before him when writing 

 his original description, and which contains birds in almost every stage 

 of plumage, from the young bird to the fully adult, I have little hesita- 

 tion in affirming that P. arctitorquis, ( ? Meyer), from Timor-laut and 

 Babbar, is but the immature male, and P. kehirensis (Meyer) the nearly 

 fully adult /e??2a?e of P. arctitorquis, in which the colour of the bird when 

 fully adult is black; while P. riedelii is a still younger /e?M?e of the 

 same species. From this it would seem clear to me that A aixtiforqnis, 

 ScL, occurs in Babbar also, for the examples before Dr. Meyer from that 

 island were young males and immature females, w^hile from Timor-laut 

 he had adult males, immature males (?, Meyer), and still younger 

 females (riedelii, Meyer). [H. 0. F.] 



33. P. fusco-flava, Sclater, loc. cit., PL XXVII.; Forbes, P. Z. S., 18S3, 



pi, 5^8, PI. LIII. 

 Obs. Similis P. leucogastroy scd torque angusto distinguenda. 

 The pair of these species w^ere obtained in Larat, in the first week of 

 August 1882- The iris is marked "reddish brown" in the male, and 

 dark brown" in the female; the feet *' blue -black" in the male, and 

 lavender-pink " in the female. 





31. Dictum fttlgidum, Sclater. 



(Figured in Gould's 'Birds of New Guinea,' par^ 16.) 



