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colours of the Harlequin ; on the forehead a band of bright scarlet, 
surrounded by cobalt, a shade of the same colour encircling the 
latter, narrow above, broader below ; on the cheeks, from the base of 
the bill to the tips of the ear-coverts, a band of scarlet like that on 
the forehead; and below this is an obscure band of purplish blue, 
gradually fading off into the green of the neck; flank-feathers tipped 
with bright lemon-yellow; quills externally blue, the inner secondaries 
green, with the usual tiny patch of scarlet adjoining the back ; tail 
green; under wing-coverts green, the outer ones washed with blue ; 
quills blackish below, diagonally crossed near the base with a yellow 
band. Total length 54 inches, wing 33, tail 1, tarsus 3. 
Female. Differs from the male in wanting the scarlet cheeks: in 
other respects similar. 
Hab. Rockingham Bay, Queensland. 
This pretty little species is quite different from all the Cyclopsitte 
known, and finds its allies in C. coreni and C. diophthalma. It is 
one third less in size than C. coreni, and about equal to C. dioph- 
thalma in dimensions; it is, however, even more beautiful than the 
latter in the colours of its face. 
I gladly accede to the suggestion of Mr. Waller that this species 
should be named after Professor M‘Coy, who has done so much for 
Australian science. 
Family MeLipHaGip2. 
3. PriLoTIs FLAVOSTRIATA, Sp. nl. 
Head and hind neck dusky blackish, with a distinct shade of 
olivaceous on the crown, leaving a pure black patch on each side of 
the occiput ; hind neck distinctly marked with triangular spots of 
dull white; mantle straw-yellow, the bases to the feathers dusky 
brown ; scapulars brown, with large triangular whitish spots; lower 
back and rump brown, with dull olive margins to the feathers ; upper 
tail-coverts and tail brown, paler at tip, the feathers narrowly mar- 
gined with olive ; wing-coverts brown, with large triangular whitish 
spots as on the scapulars, the greater series dark brown, tipped with 
whitish and margined with whity brown; quills dark brown, externally 
edged with olive and slightly tipped with whitish ; region of the eye 
bare and yellow ; the few feathers on the ear-coverts hoary ; cheeks 
dull olivaceous buff, running into a distinct tuft of bright yellow ; 
throat greyish white, washed with olive on the lower part; chest 
olivaceous, distinctly streaked with shaft-lines of bright yellow, the 
breast paler, the feathers being brown with broad triangular longi- 
tudinal spots of white; flanks and under tail-coverts light brown, 
washed with olive ; under wing-coverts yellowish buff; the lower sur- 
face of the wings and tail ashy brown, with broad rufous buff mar- 
gins to the inner webs. ‘Total length 73 inches, bill 13, wing 33, 
tail 3, tarsus 1}. 
Hab. Rockingham Bay. 
