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10. PffiCILODRYAS CANICEPS, Sp. nOV. "-I — 



Above, edges of wing-coverts, of remiges, and rectrices 

 olive-green ; head above and on the sides dull brownish grey ; 

 cliin and throat pale grey, varied with darker ; upper breast 

 yellowish green; lower breast and abdomen bright yellow, 

 deepening to nearly orange-yellow on the under tail-coverts ; 

 wing and tail fuscous brown, under surface of wing rather 

 paler, with ashy edging to the quills ; under wing-coverts 

 pale fuscous, tipped with yellow ; tail beneath dark brown, 

 strongly washed with olive, the shafts white : bill black ; 

 legs and feet horn-brown. Length 160 mm., wing 85, tail 70, 

 tarsus 25. 



Description taken from a spirit-specimen. 



11. PCECILODRYAS LORALIS, Sp. UOV. -V" 



Above delicate ash-grey, becoming whitish on the rump 

 and upper tail-coverts, brownish black on the head ; wing 

 and tail uniform blackish brown ; whole body beneath, face, 

 and a large loreal patch nearly covering the forehead white ; 

 spot before the eye black ; under wing-coverts dark brown : 

 bill, legs, and feet black. Length 155 mm., M'ing 100, tail 65, 

 culmen 10, tarsus 21. 



Description taken from two spirit-specimens. 



12. PcECILODRYAS SUBCYANEA, Sp. UOV. 



Evidently the eastern representative of P. cyanea, Salvad., 

 from which it differs in the almost entire absence of the 

 white bases of the remiges, one specimen only showing a 

 trace of them, in the feathers of the lower abdomen and the 

 under tail-coverts being tipped with white or buff, except in 

 one other specimen in which the white tips are obsolete, and 

 iti the throat being fringed with brown. Of P. cyanea 

 Dr. Gadow says (Brit. Mus. Cat. viii. p. 183) that the 

 scales in the front of the tarsus are fused into one long 

 scutum; in the present bird they are distinct. Length 

 155 mm., wing 94, tail 64, culmen 15, tarsus 27. 



Described from four spirit-specimens. 



13. Gerygone murina, sp. nov. 



Above olive-brown, purer brown on the head and upper 



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