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5. Halcyon macleayi, Jard. & Selby. 



Halcyon macleayi, Jard. & Selby, 111. Orn. vol. iii. pi. 101 ; Gld. 

 B. of Austr. ii. pi. 24 ; Sharpe, Ale. pi. 78. 



Cyanalcyon macleayi, Gld. Handb. B. Austral, i. p. 133. 



One male specimen from Cape York. "No. 161. Eyes, bill, and 

 legs black. Stomach contained insects." 



6. Artamus leucopygialis, Gld. 



Artamus leucopygialis, Gld. B. of Austr. ii. pi. 33 ; id. Handb. 

 i. p. 154. 



One specimen from Cape York. " No. 177, 6 • Bill blue tipped 

 with black, feet black. Stomach contained insects." 



7. Graucalus hypoleucus, Gld. 



Graucalus hypoleucus, Gld. B. of Austr. ii. pi. 57; id. Handb. 

 i. p. 196. 



One skin of this species from Cape York. " No. 151, ? . Legs, 

 bill, and eyes black. Stomach contained insects." 



8. Pachycephala, sp. inc. 



"No. 196, 3 . Pachycephala. Eyes brown, bill and legs horn- 

 colour. Stomach had insects." 



A single skin of a Pachycephala from Booby Island, immature, 

 still retaining some of the rufous feathers characteristic of imma- 

 turity in its wings. It is certainly one of the species which, when 

 adult, are yellow beneath, the under tail-coverts being bright gam- 

 boge-yellow. The species of this group are so hard to determine, 

 unless males and in adult plumage, that it seems better to leave this 

 bird, although not exactly like any Pachycephala I have been able 

 to examine in the British Museum or in Mr. Godman's collection, 

 without a name for the present, more particularly as Mr. Sharpe is, 

 I believe, now working at this group for the next volume of his 

 catalogue. 



9. PlNAROLESTES RUFIGASTER (Gld.). 



Colluricincla rufigaster, Gld. B. of Austr. i. p. xxxvii; id. Handb. 

 B. Austr. i. p. 226. 



Pinarolestes rufigaster, Sharpe, Cat. of B. iii. p. 296. 



"No. 170, $. Shrike." 



One specimen, from Cape York, of this difficult genus. Mr. Gould, 

 to whom I showed the specimen, was inclined to identify it with his 

 Colluricincla parvissima 1 (Ann. & Mag. N. H. ser. 4, x. p. 1 14), and 

 has kindly lent me the type of that species (which Mr. Sharpe, t.c. 

 p. 297, treats as the young of P. rufigaster) for comparison. I find, 

 however, that the Cape-York bird has a distinctly shorter wing, a 

 stronger and more arched bill, and is less rufous on the underside. 

 Mr. Sharpe, who has recently worked up this group for his cata- 

 logue, has examined this specimen, and refers it to P. rufigaster. 

 1 Count Salvadori suggests that this really=-P. megarhynchus of New Guinea. 



