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XXXV.— Description of two new Species of Birds from South¬ 
eastern New Guinea. By R. Bowdler Sharpe, F.L.S., 
F.Z.S., &c., Senior Assistant, Department of Zoology, 
British Museum. 
In a collection of birds recently sent to England by Mr. 
Kendal Broadbent from the interior of South-eastern New 
Guinea, there are two apparently new species, which, injustice 
to that energetic collector, should, I think, be made known at 
once. I therefore append diagnoses of these birds. 
Fam. Muscicapidae. 
Genus PCECIEODRYAS. 
Poecilodryas favicincta, sp. n. 
P. supra flavicanti-viridis: tectricibus alarum remigibusque fusces- 
centi-nigris, viridi dorsi colore marginatis: rectricibus fusces- 
centi-brunneis, extus viridi limbatis et vix albido terminatis: 
pileo nuchaque saturate ciuereis : mento, genis anticis et regione 
parotica pileo concoloribus, hac paullo nigricante : genis posticis, 
gula ima et jugulo laete flavis, ut et colli lateribus, fasciam latam 
transversalem jugularem exhibentibus : praepectore et pectore 
summo flavicanti-viridibus : corpore reliquo subtus laetissime 
flavo : subalaribus axillaribusque albidis laete flavo lavatis. Long, 
tot. 5'3, culm. 0-7, alae 3'65, caudae 2’2, tarsi 0-9. 
Of the same group as P. capito and P. leucops, but quite 
different from either of them in its coloration. 
Fam. Platycercidae. 
Genus Aprosmictus. 
Aprosmictus Broadbenti , sp. n. 
A. similis A. calloptero, Salvad. et D’Albert., sed minor, occipite 
nuchaque, ut et interscapulio summo, laete caeruleis, subcauda- 
libus caerulescenti-nigris, coccinoo terminatis distinguendus. Long, 
tot. 14, culm. 1-0, alae 7'6, caudae 8’7, tarsi 07. 
The types of both the species here described are in the 
British Museum. 
