448 MR. P. L. SCLATER ON BIRDS FROM [May 20, 



and front. In the typical specimen the lores and front are quite black. 

 In other respects the two skins do not materially differ, regard being 

 had to the fact that the type was formerly preserved in spirit. 



2. Gratjcalus sublineatus, sp. nov. (Plate XXXVI.) 



Cinereus ; remigibus et rectricibus nigris, Mis extus cum tectricibus 

 majoribus anguste albo marginatis ; abdomine albo regulariter 

 transfasciato ; subalaribus albis cinereo transfasciatis ; remigum 

 pagina inferiore albicante ; roslro et pedibits nigris. Long, tota 

 9, al<e 5 - 4, caudce 4 - 3. 

 Hab. Nova Hibernia (Brown). 



Obs. Sp. forma et statura G. lineati et ejusdem coloris, sed loris 

 vix nigricantibus et fasciis abdominis diversa. 



Of this apparently new species of Graucalus, one specimen, marked 

 male, is in the collection, obtained in the district of Topaia, New 

 Ireland, in September 1878. The irides are described as " yellow ; " 

 aud the bird is said to be also met with in New Britain. 



4. Pachycephala melanura, Gould, B. Austr. ii. pi. 61. 



From Palikuiiru Island ("a small island in midchannel between 

 New Britain and Duke-of-York Island ") Mr. Brown sends five 

 examples of a Pachycephala which I do not venture to separate 

 from P. melanura of North Australia. Two adult males agree closely 

 with a skin of P. melanura from Cape York in the collection of 

 Messrs. Salvin and Godman, except in having the outer edgings of 

 the secondaries rather more greyish. Of three examples marked 

 "female," all have the abdomen yellow and back olive, and one has 

 brown-chestnut margins to the secondaries and wing-coverts. It is 

 possible these may be really young males, as the female of the Cape- 

 York bird (in Mus. S.-G.) is of a much paler and more uniform 

 colour, with only a wash of yellowish below on the breast and 

 crissum. 



Mr. Brown in his MS. noted this species as "abundant" in 

 Palakuiiru, and " eyes and legs black " in both sexes. 



I do not know Pachycephala citreogaster (!), Ramsay, P. L. S. 

 N. S. W. i. p. 67, described from a spirit-specimen from New Britain, 

 unless it be referable to another stage of plumage of this species. 



5. Myzomela sclateri, Forbes, anted, p. 275, PI. XXV. fig. 2. 



Mr. Brown now sends a pair of this fine new Myzomela, Mr. 

 Forbes's type of which was received in a letter from the same 

 correspondent. Like the type, they were obtained on the island 

 of Palakuiiru in June 1878. The female may be diagnosed as 

 follows : — 



Supra saturate olivacea ; pileo, alis et cauda nigricantibus, his 

 extus olivaceo limbatis ; subtus grisescenti-flavida, gula coccineo 

 vix tincta. 



6. Myzomela cineracea, sp. nov. (Plate XXXVII. fig. 1.) 

 Sattirate cineracea unicolor ; subalaribus et remigum marginibus 



