360 THE CEUISE OF THE ' CUBAQOA.' 



PLATE IV. Fi«. J. 

 GLYOIPHILA GALEBONIGA. 



(Gljciphila modesta, G. R. Gr.Pmc. Zool. Soc. 18.59, p. 160 ; Glyciphila caledonica, 

 G. R. Gr. Hand, list of B. i. p. 155.) 



Upper surface obscui'e cinereous, darker ou the head ; back 

 varied with olive ; quills and tail fuscous black, margined exter- 

 nally with olive ; throat, breast, and sides greyish brown, varied 

 with cinereous white ; abdomen pale greenish brown, tinged with 

 yellow ; ear-coverts shining grey. 



Length 5" 6'", wings 3", bill 10^'". 



New Caledonia is the abode of this sombre species. 



PLATE IV. Fig. 2. 

 GLYOIPHILA FLAVOTINGTA. 



(Glyciphila flavotincta, G. R. Gr. Ann. and Mag. of K H. 1870, p. 331.) 



It is very like Glyciphila modesta. Gray, of New Caledonia ; 

 but it is rather larger in all its proportions, and it has a promi- 

 nent tinge of yellow on the back and beneath the body, which is 

 not fovmd on the bird referred to. 



Length 6", wings 3" 3"", bill 12", tarsi 10"". 



' Eyes black. Contents of stomach, honey. Male and female.' 



Three specimens were obtained at Eramanga Island. 



