198 MR. p. L. SCLATER ON BIRDS FROM TIMOR LAUT. [Apr. 17, 



feathers much graduated, the outer pair being 1-3 inch shorter 

 than the middle pair. Below, the tail is pale rufous, the inner 

 •webs of the rectrices passing into blackish. Above, the outer tail- 

 feathers are margined externally at their bases with the chestnut-red 

 of the rump. 



15. Graucalus TJNiMODUs, Scl. P. Z. S. 1883, p. .55. 

 The present collection contains two males and two females of this 

 species, which was described from a single female example. The sexes 

 are not quite similar, as will be seen from the subjoined amended 

 diagnoses. 



(J . Cinereus ; f route, loris et capitis laterihvs cum gutturetoto ad 

 medium pectus CBneo-nigris ; alis et cauda, nigris illis cinereo 

 extus marginatis ; subalaribus jmllide isabellinis ; remigum 

 pagina inferiore albicanti-cinerea ; rostro et pedibus nigris. Long, 

 tota 13"5, alee 7'3, caudee 6"5, tarsi 1*3. 

 5 . llari simiiis, sed paulum obscurior et colore nigro nisi in loris 

 carens ; crassitie paulo minore. 



20. Pachycephala fusco-flava, sp. nov. (Plate XXVIII.) 

 Pachycephala, sp. inc. 5, Scl. sw^ra, p. 51. 



Supra olivaceo-viridis, alis caudaque nigris, olivaceo limbatis ; sub- 

 tus fulvescenti-flava, in ventre imo et crisso flavicantior, lateribus 

 capitis rufescentibus ; subalaribus et remigum marginibus in- 

 ternis ochracescenti-albis ; rostro nigro, pedibus corylinis. Long, 

 tota 7'3, alee 4-2, caudee 3*3. 

 5 . Mari simiiis, sed colore corporis subtus ochraceo distinguenda. 

 Hab. Larat, ins. Tenimberensem. 



The first collection contained a single female example of the 

 present species, which I was unwilling to describe. We have now 

 a male from the same island, which enables me to characterize the 

 species. It would appear to belong to sect, i c of Count Salvadori's 

 arrangement ; but, as noted above, the sexes are not quite similar in 

 coloration. 



The male is labelled " irides dark brown, legs and feet sooty 

 blue ;" the female, " irides dark brown ; legs and feet black." 



21. Stigmatops squamata, Salvad. Orn. Pap. ii. p. 386. 

 Nectarinia, sp. inc., Scl. supra, p. 51. 



The former collection contained two skins in bad condition 

 (marked " $ ") which I thought might probably be referable to a 

 female of some species of Nectarinia. The present collection com- 

 prehends nine specimens of the same bird of both sexes. It is evi- 

 dently a Meliphagine bird of the genus Stigmatops, and, so far as I 

 can tell without actual comparison with the types, inseparable from 

 S. squamata of Salvadori. This species was discovered by Rosen- 

 berg on Khor Island between the Ke group and Ceram laut, and 

 may therefore probably also occur in the Tenimber group, from which 

 Khor lies not very far north. 



