1877. ] NORTH-EASTERN QUEENSLAND. 351 
290. MreLITHREPTES L/TIOR. 
Melithreptus letior, Gould, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, 
vol. xvi. p. 287. 
291. CALOPSITTA NOVH-HOLLANDIZ. 
Calopsitia nove-hollandie, Gould, Handbk. B. Austr. ii. p. 84. 
292. PTILOSCLERA VERSICOLOR. 
Ptilosclera versicolor, Vigors; Gould, Handbk. B. Austr. ii. p: 98. 
Some fine specimens were obtained on Carron’s Creek. 
This brings my list of Birds of North-eastern Queensland &c. to 
aclose. I might have added several more to it had I been enabled 
to remain longer in some of the inland districts; and I regret also 
that I did not shoot specimens of some of the species. These con- 
sequently I have not been able to determine with that degree of 
certainty I should like; for I find in one or two instances the birds 
I then took to be identical with our New-South-Wales species have 
turned out to be new. This is the case with Oreocincla, sp. No. 110, 
which I find to be O. codura of Mr. Gould. 
T also observed that the Sittella leucocephala, from the neigh- 
bourhood of Port Denison, has a white band through the wing 
instead of a reddish or “rusty-red” one, as described by Mr. Gould. 
In other respects it is almost exactly the same. I have only ob- 
served three specimens with this peculiarity, but am daily expecting 
a large series from Bowen, when I will make some further remarks, 
and give a fuller description of the bird; for the present I propose 
the name of albata for the Port-Denison specimens, distinguished "by 
having a white band through the wing, commencing on the first 
primary and extending to the 9th quill. 
SITTELLA ALBATA, Sp. NOV. 
Head and neck, a small spot at the base of the primaries on the 
underside of the wing, a band through the wing as far as the Yth 
quill, the upper tail-coverts, and the tips of all the tail-feathers ex- 
cept the centre two, snow-white ; under surface ashy white, with a 
broad dark-brown stripe down the centre of each feather ; under 
tail-coverts of a darker brown, tipped and margined anteriorly with 
white ; back and scapulars brown, darker in the centres of the fea- 
thers ; wing- and tail-quills blackish brown, the former crossed with 
a white band as far as the ninth quill; bill at the base, the legs and 
feet, and skin round the eye yellow, remainder of the bill black. 
Length 3:7 inches, wing 3, tail 1°5, tarsi 1:7, bill 0°5, bill from 
gape 0°7. 
Finally, I may as well correct an error which occurs in the 
name of sp. no. 57, Part I. of this paper (P. Z.S. 1875, p. 584): 
Artamus cinereus should be Artamus albiventris, Gould. And under 
sp. no. 125, Stigmatops subocularis, the latter part of my remarks 
refer to Stigmatops ocularis, the Sydney species. 
