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



feathers much graduated, the outer pair being TS 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 unimodtjs, 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. 



S . Cinereus ; f route, loris et capitis lateribvs cum gutture toto ad 

 medium pectus ceneo-nigris ; alis et cauda, nic/ris illis cinereo 

 extus marginatis ; subalaribus pallide isabellinis ; remigum 

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

 tota 13'5, alcB 7'3, caudce 6'5, tarsi 1*3. 

 5 . Mari similis, sed paulum obscurior et colore nigra nisi in loris 

 carens ; crassitie paulo tninore. 



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

 Pachycephala, sp. inc. $, ^c\. supra, 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, alcB 4'2, caudcB 3*3. 

 $ . Mari similis, sed colore corpoi'is subtus ochraeeo distinguenda. 

 Hah. 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 " 5 ") 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 Melipbagine 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. 



