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with green, the lores fuscous grey (fuscous bases and white 

 tips) ; orbital ring yellow ; ear-coverts fuscous green with 

 white shafts ; under surface citrine-yellow, paler on throat 

 and under tail-coverts ; metacarpal edge and adjacent under 

 wing-coverts yellow ; under surface of wing and tail ashy 

 brown ; inner web of secondaries narrowly edged with grey : 

 '' iris light brown in male, brown in female ; beak above 

 black in male, corneous in female, lower mandible yellow ; 

 feet yellow." Length 133 mm,, wing 78, tail 60, culmen 10, 

 tarsus 12. 



Male and female : " Boirave, July 9th and 16tb, 1896 ; 

 contents of stomach, insects. Native name ' Kui Kui.'' " 



26. ZOSTEROPS L^TA, Sp. UOV. T 



Above yellowish green, the head rather duller; rump 

 bright yellow ; lores, orbital ring, cheeks, and ear-coverts 

 yelloAV, the last two greenish ; a dusky spot before the eye ; 

 body beneath and under wing-coverts yellow, feathers of the 

 throat white at the base ; Aving-coverts and tail fuscous, edges 

 uniform with the back ; tail beneath brown, washed with 

 green ; lateral rectrices edged beneath with dull olive-green : 

 bill brownish black ; upper part of tarsus yellow, lower and 

 feet pale yellowish brown. Length 115 mm., wing 75, tail 44, 

 culmen 8, tarsus 18. 



Described from two spirit-specimens. 



Fam. S Y L v 1 1 D iE. 



27, Megalurus punctatus, sp. nov. -I— 

 Above rufous brown, a little redder on head and upper 



tail-coverts; feathers of head and upper tail-coverts with 

 narrow fuscous shaft-streaks, those of head with much broader 

 streaks ; tail like back, with broad fuscous shaft-streaks, in 

 which are numerous darker bars ; lores grey ; a bufiy-grey 

 superciliary stripe behind the middle of the eye; ear-coverts 

 brown, with white shaft-streaks : below impure white ; lower 

 throat pale brown, Avith fuscous spots auteriorly, mostly on 

 either side of it ; sides of breast, flanks, crissals, and under 

 tail-coverts slightly rufous brown, the terminals of the last 

 with narrow fuscous shaft-streaks ; metacarpal edge and 



