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fuscous, with a patch of yellow on each side, which may 

 reach almost round the throat ; rest of under surface dull 

 olive-grey, the centres of the upper breast-feathers rather 

 darker; abdomen dark ashy grey, with pale tips, forming 

 indistinct bars ; under tail-coverts pale fuscous, edged with 

 isabel-grey ; metacarpal edgings and under wing-coverts buff 

 stained with pale fuscous : "" iris brown ; beak black ; feet 

 yellow." Length 182 mm., wing 85, tail 87, culraen 10, 

 tarsus 19. 



"Two females: Mt. Scratchley, at 12,200, Oct. 5th and 

 Sept. IGth, 1890." 



The dark forehead aud throat, white-spotted face, grey- 

 spotted abdomen, and sordid under tail-coverts separate this 

 bird from the nearly allied P. subfrcnata, Salvad. 



22. Ptilotis ojjscuha, sp. nov. -f- 

 Above dull olive, feathers of head aud back with fuscous 



shaft-streaks; wing and tail fuscous, edged with olive-green, 

 the primaries narrowly edged with greyish green ; lores 

 fuscous, a supraloral ijand i'rom forehead isabcl ; below pale 

 rufous brown, washed with olive-brown and varied with narrow 

 fuscous shaft-streaks on lower throat and breast ; chin and 

 upper throat butfy white; under tail-coverts buff; under 

 wing-coverts bufty white; a few post-auricular plumes with 

 whitish tips ; sides of throat fuscous : beak black ; legs pale 

 brown; toes dark brown. Length 170 mm., wing 82, tail 

 70, culmcn 13, tarsus 23. 



From Mt. Scratchley ; condition bad, aud sex not de- 

 termined. 



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23. AcANTnocnacKA ruscA, sp, nov. 



Male. Above and below fuscous, feathers of back obscurely, 

 of breast more distinctly edged with grey ; chin and upper 

 throat-feathers speckled with brown, the tips of their shafts 

 naked ; abdomen smoky brown ; upper tail-coverts smoky 

 brown, with rufous-grey edges; naked skin of head confined 

 to a suboeular stripe and postocular spot; inner edges of 

 lateral rectriecs below grey : " iris brown or light brown ; 



