376 Mr. C. W. De Vis on new or little-known 



wing beneath ashy brown, edges of inner webs more ashy : 

 upper mandible dark brown, lower pale, with dark tip ; legs 

 and feet dark brown. Length 145 mm., wing 77, tail 92, 

 culmen 12, tarsus 17* 



Described from a spirit-speeimen, 



8. Petrceca bivittata, sp. uov. 



Above dull dark grey, on the forehead a large silky-white 

 spot j wings dark brown, tips of quills edged with grey ; 

 inner secondaries and tertials, especially the last tertial, 

 edged with greyish white on the apical half of the outer web, 

 forming an obscure cross-baud ; inner primaries with a 

 white spot near the base, forming a second oblique band; 

 primary -coverts with a broad white band across their ceiltres ; 

 beneath down to upper breast smoky grey, rest of under surface 

 white ; thighs smoky brown ; metacarpal edge, under wing- 

 coverts, and axillaries white : " iris brown ; beak black ; feet 

 corneous.^' Length 122 mm., wing 71, tail 50, culmen 7, 

 tarsus 145. 



" Female : Mt. Scratchley, at 12,200 feet, Oct. 5th, 1896 ; 

 contents of stomach, insects." 



9. P(ECILODRYAS NITIDA, Sp. UOV. 



Above olive ; upper tail-coverts tinged with yellow and 

 edged with brighter yellow ; head-feathers subsquamate, 

 slightly tinged with orange and obscurely edged with 

 brown ; a large silky-white malar spot continuous with 

 a similar loreal spot, which towards the forehead becomes 

 greenish on the tips ; ear-coverts fuscous washed with 

 yellowish green ; chin grey, tinged with yellow ; sides of 

 throat fuscous, barred with white margins ; rest of lower 

 surface bright yellow ; under wing-coverts lemon-yellow j 

 wing and tail brown ; primaries edged with grey ; secondaries, 

 primary-coverts, and rectrices with olive : " iris brown ; beak 

 grey, black at point; feet grey." Length 128 mm., wing 

 68, tail 67, culmen 8' 5, tarsus 11. 



" Female : Boirave, July 14th, 1896 ; contents of stomach, 

 insects. Native name ' Totodidiari.' " 



