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378 Mr. C. W. De Vis on vein or little-hnoivn 



tail-coverts^ the latter darker ; feathers of front, lores, and 

 cheeks mottled with lighter tips and darker centres ; ear- 

 coverts brown, slightly rufescent ; beneath dingy yellowish 

 white to pale fawn on lower breast and white on middle of 

 abdomen ; rectrices olive, with a broad fuscous shading near 

 the tips, which are grey on the mesials, white on the laterals, 

 the outermost tip broad and well defined on the inner web ; 

 axillaries, metacarpal edge, and under wing-coverts pale 

 leraon-yellow ; wing- and primary-coverts fuscous, edged with 

 olive-brown ; inner webs of remiges edged with grey ; base 

 of under mandible whitish ; under surface of toes yellow : 

 " iris straw-yellow ; beak corneous ; feet light corneous in 

 male, corneous in female/^ Length 100 mm., wing 60, tail 

 39, culmen 8, tarsus 18. 



''Male and female: Mt. Scratchley, at 12,200 feet; con- 

 tents of stomach, insects.^' 



Approximates to G. magnirostris, Gld., but has a longer 

 bill, shorter tail, and the upper surface olive. 



14. Gerygone brunnea, sp. nov. 



All above brown, slightly tinged with olive ; wings fuscous 

 brown, with a broad subtermiual fuscous band, the two 

 outermost rectrices tipped with brownish grey ; all beneath, 

 under wing-coverts, and inner edges of remiges dingy fulvous 

 white, more nearly pure white on abdomen ; cheeks as the 

 under surface, but with fuscous mottling : bill black ; legs 

 and feet brown. Length 105 mm., wing 62, tail 10, culmen 

 7'5, tarsus 18*5. 



Described from a spirit-specimen. 



Fam. Laniid^. 



15. Grallina bruijni, Salvad. 



Male. Above blue-black ; wing-coverts, except the outer- 

 most of the greater and all the primary series, white; 

 secondaries and tertials fringed with white, forming with 

 the coverts a continuous white band across the rump ; lores, 

 cheeks, and all beneath to abdomen (its sides included) 

 black ; a supraorbital stripe behind the eye, the ear-coverts, 

 and sides of neck white ; middle of abdomen, thighs, crissals, 

 under tail-coverts, and basal three-fifths of the tail white. 



