1874.] BIRDS FROM QUEENSLAND. 603 



This new species is at least one quarter less in size than the New- 

 South-Wales bird, JE. smithii, and is only found on the East-Coast 

 ranges, about Cardwell, at Rockingham Bay. Several specimens 

 were obtained, but unfortunately so late in the season that the plu- 

 mage was much worn and discoloured. As far as I am aware, their 

 food is exclusively fruit, which may be fonud in abundance in the 

 dense jungles and scrubs which clothe the sides of the ranges. 



This species may easily be distinguished from 2E. smithii by the 

 black and white markings about the head and face, and the large 

 elongated heart-shaped spots on the under surface. 



Its note resembles that of M. smithii, but is not so distinct a cry, 

 and less bat-like, clearer, and more of a whistle. They assemble in 

 small flocks of from ten to twenty in number, and frequent the palms 

 and native fruit-trees in company with Ptilonopus superbus and Car- 

 pophaga assimilis. They are also found feeding in the immense fig- 

 trees which abound in the scrubs. 



3. Ptilotis frenata, nov. sp. 



Of this new species, for which I beg leave to propose the name 

 of P. frenata, on account of the markings at the base of the bill and 

 round the face, some few individuals were obtained frequenting the 

 Eucalypti while in blossom, near the margin of a swamp in the 

 Cardwell district. . 



The birds were shot by my (then) collector, Mr. Broadbent, who is 

 already well known as an enthusiastic and careful taxidermist. To 

 Mr. Broadbent's researches my collection is also indebted for the first 

 specimen of Eopsaltria inornata. 



Description.— Whole of the upper surface dull brown; head, 

 lores, and nape of neck blackish brown, the feathers having indistinct 

 lunulate markings and a gloss of olive in certain lights ; a semi-bare 

 space below the eve has a few minute buffy white feathers ; behind 

 the eye a semilunar patch of white feathers tipped with black, which, 

 extending in a narrow line, almost encircles that organ. Eye-lashes 

 black ; ear-coverts black, above them immediately behind the eye is a 

 small tuft of bright wax-yellow feathers joining a large triangular 

 patch of light greyish brown feathers on the side of the neck, which 

 has the upper portion of it, nearest the ear-coyerts, tinged with olive ; a 

 narrow indistinct line of yellow on either side bounding the ear-coverts 

 below, extending obliquely to the lower part of the chin, where, 

 meeting in an angle, they form an indistinct yellow patch on the 

 throat. Chin and remainder of the under surface dull brown, 

 slightly darker in tint on the breast and sides of the neck, lighter 

 on the centre of the abdomen and under tail-coverts; across the 

 chest are indistinct wavy lines of a darker tint, on the flanks indi- 

 stinct lanceolate markings of the same tint. Under surface of the 

 shoulders, inner margins of tertiaries, secondaries, and the basal por- 

 tions of inner margins of the primaries light buff. The outer webs 

 of the spurious wing- feathers, the tertiaries, and secondaries, with 

 some of the primaries, are on the upper surface tinged with olive. 

 Bill black, with the basal portion (except the culmen) yellow. The 



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