Birds from British Neiv Guinea. 379 



suffused with buff ; rump, upper tail-coverts, and basal three- 

 fifths of upper surface of tail white, the coverts strongly, 

 the tail faintly tinged with buff; under wing-coverts black ; 

 quills beneath entirely black : " iris brown ; beak and feet 

 light blue/' Length 182 mm., wing 103, tail 85, culmen 

 16, tarsus 23. 



" Male : Neneba, Mt. Scratchley, at 4000 feet, Nov. 4th, 

 1896 ; contents of stomach, insects.''^ 



With regard to this Grallrna, there are two possibilities ; 

 either it forms a new species still smaller than G. bruijni, 

 Salvad., a supposition favoured by the fact that males of G.pi- 

 cata are larger, as a rule, than their females ; or, more pro- 

 bably, as it seems to me, it is the true male of G. bimijni — 

 more probably because it is more unlikely that the sexes of 

 G. bruijni should have identical colouring, while those of 

 G. picata have distinguishing characters, than that G. brvijni 

 should be larger on Mt. Arfak than on Mt. Scratchley. If, 

 however, Salvadori should be right as to the sex of the 

 example of G. bruijni which he considers to be a male, then 

 the present species must be different^. 



16. Pachycephala, sp. inc. 



Female. Above brown, slightly washed with rufous on the 

 back and hind neck; ear-coverts, sides of neck, a broad 

 pectoral baud, and flanks pale tawny brown; rest of under 

 surface white; indistinct shaft-streaks on throat and breast; 

 under wing-coverts white, whity brown near edge of wing ; 

 edges of quills beneath white, with a tawny wash ; wing 

 fuscous, primaries edged with grey, rest of quills edged with 

 the colour of the back ; a spot before the eye dusky ; a 

 superciliary stripe from the lore brownish buff 5 tail brown : 

 beak black ; legs and feet brown. Length 145 mm., wing 

 77, tail 68, culmen 10, tarsus 20. 



Young male and two females : " Boirave, July llth-24th, 

 1896. Iris brown ; beak black, corneous in male ; feet grey, 

 pink in male. Contents of stomach, insects.'' 



* [Mr. De Vis has sent home a skin of this bird for comparison. 

 Dr. Bowdler Sharpe considers it to be undoubtedly referable to 

 G. bruijui. — Edd.] 



