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17. PaCH^CEPHALA SORORCULA, Sp. nOV. '^^"(^ <- 



Male. Occiput and all above olive-green; head brown, a 

 little ashy ; supracaadals with bright yellow tips ; cheeks, 

 chin, and upper throat grey, with fuscous centres and ashy- 

 white tips ; jugular collar smoky grey, its lateral and hind- 

 most feathers greenish yellow ; all the rest beneath yellow ; 

 wing-coverts, secondaries, and base of inner primaries edged 

 with yellow, the other primaries with ashy ; wing fuscous 

 brown ; tail dark brown, tinged with olive-green above and 

 brighter yellowish green below ; metacarpal edge and adjacent 

 under wing-coverts yellow ; inner edge of remiges within 

 ashy ; thigh brown, the hinder lower feathers with yellowish 

 tips : bill black ; feet light brown. Length 150 mm., wing 

 85, tail 68, culmen 10, tarsus 26, gape 18. 



Described from a spirit-specimen. 



Fam. CERTHIIDiE. 



18. Daphcenositta miranda, gen. et sp. nov. 



Daph(enositta, gen. nov. 



Bill subulate, straight, shorter than the head, not notched ; 

 nostril basal, exposed, in front of an operculated groove ; no 

 rictal bristles ; wing more than twice as long as tail, first 

 primary reaching beyond primary-coverts, tip of wing sharp, 

 formed by third, fourth, and fifth primaries, secondaries 

 short ; tail short, obtusely granulated : feet crimson ; tarsus 

 and hallux (with claw) of equal length, longer than middle 

 toe ; claw of hallux as long as its phalanx. 



DaPHCENOSITTA MIRANDA, Sp, UOV. 



Above and below black, the feathers broadly edged with 

 lead- grey ; wing and tail fuscous brown; the four rectrices 

 largely tipped with pink, nearly half the outermost being of 

 that colour ; rump stained with crimson ; forehead, chin, and 

 some feathers of the orbital ring rich crimson ; metacarpal 

 edge and adjacent under wing-coverts white ; middle third 

 of primaries and secondaries white on under surface of inner 

 webs, forming a broad band across the wing; lateral rectrices 

 below darker pink than on the upper surface: "iris straw- 



