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and round the fore and lower part of the latter white, with hair- 

 like black shaft-lines ; ear-coverts dark brown ; chin and cheeks 

 white, the hinder part of the latter streaked with dusky brown ; 

 lower throat tinged with yellow and streaked with blackish centres 

 to the feathers;' remainder of under surface white, slightly tinged 

 with yellow and broadly streaked with dark brown on the fore neck 

 and chest and with rufous-brown on the breast and abdomen; 

 thighs and tarsal plumes yellowish, spotted with brown; under tail- 

 coverts white, with a few heart-shaped spots near the end of the 

 feather; axillaries and under wing-coverts deep yellowish buff, 

 broadly streaked with chocolate-brown, the central markings more 

 or less irregular in shape ; quills dusky brown, barred with white, 

 somewhat ashy whitish on the quills, but very pure white on the 

 lower series of under wing-coverts, which resemble the lower surface 

 of the quills in appearance. Total length 15 inches, culmen 0-85, 

 wing 10-2, tail 6*5, tarsus 1-45. 



3. Corvus coronoides, V. if H. 

 Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. iii. p. 20. 



a. £ ad. Port Molle, Queensland, ilay 1881. 



4. Oriolus flavicinctus {King). 



Sharpe, t. c. p. 206. 



Mimeta flavocincta, Ramsay, t. c. p. 188. 



a. $ . Port Darwin. Oct. 1881. Bill flesh-colour ; legs and feet 

 slaty grey ; iris bright red. 

 A smaller bird than the Cape-Tork examples (wing 5-2 inches), 

 with rather a smaller alar speculum. The black centres to the 

 feathers of the upper surface are wider, and the bird consequently 

 appears darker ; but this is probably due to abrasion and wearing 

 away of the plumage. 



5. Sphecotheres flaviventris, Gould. 

 Sharpe, t. c. p. 225 ; Ramsay, t. c. p. 188. 

 a, b. 2 • Thursday Island, Aug. 1881. Iris black. 



6. Chibia bract eata (Gould). 

 Sharpe, t. c. iii. p. 236 ; Ramsay, t. c. p. 182. 



a, 6. d . Friday Island, Aug. 1881. 



c. cJ. Port Darwin, Oct. 1881. Iris orange-colour. 



7. Grallina picata {Lath.). 

 Sharpe, t. c. p. 272 ; Ramsay, t. c. p. 180. 

 a. jj . Port Curtis, April 1881. 



