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wings. It is certainly one of the species which, when adult, are yellow 

 beneath, the under tail-coverts being bright gamboge-yellow. The species 

 of this group are so hard to determine, unless males and in adult plu- 

 mage, that it seems better to leave this bird, although not exactly like 

 any PachycepJiala I have been able to examine in the British Museum or 

 in Mr. Godman's collection, without a name for the present, more 

 particularly as Mr. Sharpe is, I believe, now working at this group for 

 the next volume of his catalogue. 



9. PlNAROLESTES RUFIGASTEB (Gld.), 



Colluricincla rujiyaster, Gld. B. of Austr. i. p. xxxvii ; id. Handb. B. 

 Austr. i. p. 226. 



Pinarolestes mifigaster, Sharpe, Cat. of B. iii. p. 296. 



No. 170, 2 Shrike." 



One specimen, from Cape York, of this difficult genus. Mr. Gould, 

 to whom I showed the specimen, was inclined to identify it with his 

 Colluricincla parvissima* (Ann. & Mag. N. H. ser. 4, x. p. 114), and has 

 kindly lent me the type of that species (which Mr. Sharpe, t. c. p. 297, 

 treats as the young of P. rujlgaster) for comparison. I find, however, 

 that the Cape-York bird has a distinctly shorter wing, a stronger and 

 more arched bill, and is less rufous on the underside. Mr. Sharpe, who 

 has recently worked up this group for his catalogue, has examined this 

 specimen, and refers it to P. rujigaster. 



10. MANUCODIA GOULDI, Gray. P. Z. S. 1878, 



Manucodia gouldi, Gld. Handb. B. Austr. i. p. 236 ; Sharpe, Cat. of B. P ' 

 iii. p. 181. 



Manucodia Iceraudreni, Gld. B. Austr. Suppl. pi. 9. 



Two female specimens. " No. 152. Bower-bird. Eyes orange, bill 

 and legs black. Stomach contained small seeds. For curious loop in 

 the wind-pipe see body. This bird was shot on the island opposite 

 Somerset by Moseley." The colours of the soft parts and contents of 

 the stomach are the same in the other specimen. 



The two skins sent agree well with Mr. Sharpe's description and differ 

 from Mr. Elliot's figure of the New-Guinea species (M. Jceraudreni) in 

 the points noticed in Gray's original description of the species. The 

 curious conformation of the trachea in M. Tceraudreni has long been 

 known, having been originally described by Lesson. Beccari (Ibis, 1876, 

 p. 252) says he thinks it probable that this is a peculiarity of the male 

 sex. Mr. Murray's notes, however, would seem to contradict this vie\v, 

 unless, as is hardly likely, two species otherwise so nearly allied should 

 differ in this peculiarity. 



* Count Salvador! suggests that this really = P. megarhynchus of New Guinea. 



