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Ptilotis polygramma, G. R. Gr. 



Head greyish black ; throat white ; upper surface fuscous black, 

 margined with olive yellow ; feathers of nape, wing-coverts, and 

 across the middle of the back speckled with triangular spots of white ; 

 quills and tail fuscous, margined with olive yellow ; beneath the body 

 white; the feathers of the breast fuscous along the shafts, while each 

 feather of the abdomen has an irregular band of black ; all are fringed 

 with yellow. 



Total length 6" 6'", bill from gape 11'", wings 3" 3'". 



Hab. Waigiou. 



Tropidorhynchus marginatus, G. R. Gr. 



This species differs from the Tropidorhi/uchus novce guinecs in 

 having olivaceous margins to the quills. It seems also to be rather 

 larger in all its dimensions. 



Hab. Waigiou. 



Mach.erirhynchus albifrons, G. R. Gr. (PI. XLIII. fig. 1.) 



This bird is like the J/, xanthogemjs, G. R. Gr., in many respects ; 

 but it is at once distinguished by the front and streak over the eyes 

 being white, and by the bill being rather narrower and slightly 

 sharper in front. 



The young bird is of a yellowish olivaceous, with the front and 

 eyebrows pale rufous ; throat and breast white, the latter is waved 

 with fuscous ; beneath, the rest of the body yellow, and olivaceous 

 on the sides ; wings and tail fuscous, with the coverts of the former 

 margined with white, while the quills are margined with yellow. 



Total length 4" 11'", bill from gape 9^'", wings 2" 4'". 



Hab. Waigiou and Mysol. 



, ToDOPSis wallacii, G. R. Gr. (PI. XLIII. fig. 2.) 



Top of the head black, with the tips of the feathers light blue and 

 the shaft bluish white ; back rufous ; whigs and tail dark brown ; 

 wing-coverts tipped with white ; round the eyes, lores, ear-covcrts, 

 and beneath the body white ; quills margined narrowly with white ; 

 the tips of the outer tail-feathers also white. 



Total length 4" 7'", bill from gape 8'", wings 2". 



The young bird is rufous white on the throat ; the bill is black, 

 tipped with yellowish white ; it differs from that of the typical To- 

 dopsis in being longer and somewhat curved, and in having the 

 bristles as long as the bill, 



Hab. Mysol. 



Pachycephala griseonota, G. R, Gr. 



Brownish grey above ; quills and tail fuscous, margined with grey ; 

 beneath, the body white ; breast tinged with brownish-white. 

 Total length 5" 9'", bill from gape 9'", wings 3" 2'". 

 Hab. Mysol. 



Campephaga schisticeps. 



The figure of this bird in the ' Voyage au Pole Sud ' represents 



