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29. Glyciphila modesta. 



2 • Brown, with dashes of dark brown on the feathers ; beneath 

 the body white, with some pale-phimbeous dasbes on the sides ; 

 feathers of the breast pale brown, margined broadly with white. 



Length 5" 3'" ; wings 2" 6'". 



Hab. Aru Islands. $ in Mr. Wallace's Collection. 



A specimen is contained in British Museum from Goold's Island. 



30. Glyciphila ocularis. 



Glyciphila ocularis, Gould, B. of Austr. iv. pi. 31. 

 Hab. Am Islands. S in British Museum. 



31. Ptilotis filigera. 



Ptilotis filigera, Gould, B. of Austr. Suppl. pi. 

 Hab. Am Islands. 3 $ in British Museum. 



32. Ptilotis similis. 



Ptilotis similis, Homb. & Jacq. Voy. Pole Sud, t. 17. f. 2, 3. 

 Hab. Aru Islands. 6 $ in British Museum. 



33. Ptilotis megarhynchus. 



<S . Brown ; top of head olive, with dashes of black in the middle 

 of each feather ; eyes surrounded with yellow ; throat yellowish 

 white, with minute dashes of fuscous ; breast and upper part of ab- 

 domen fuscous, margined with yellowish olive ; sides, abdomen and 

 under tail-coverts rufous brown ; under wing-coverts rufous white. 



Length 8" ; wings 3" 6'" ; bill 1" 1'". 



Hab. Aru Islands. J in Mr. Wallace's Collection. 



34. Tropidorhynchus nov^e guinea. 



Tropidorhynchus novce guinece, Mull. Verh. Nat. Gesch. p. 153. 

 Hab. Aru Islands. 6* $ in British Museum, 



35. Tropidorhynchus plumigenis. 



$ . Differs from the former by wanting the knob on the basal 

 part of culmen, and by the sides of the head beneath the eyes being 

 plumed ; the ends of the tail-feathers are margined with brownish 

 white. 



$ juv. Blackish brown ; feathers round the base of neck mar- 

 gined with yellow or white. Probably a younger bird than the 

 female. 



Hab. Ke' Island. J $ in Mr. Wallace's Collection. 



Luscinid^e. 



36. Gerygone chrysogaster. 



Olive-brown ; stripe from nostrils to eyes, ear-coverts, and sides 

 of neck pale brown ; throat and breast white ; abdomen and under 

 tail-coverts pale yellow. Bill and feet dusky. 



Length 4" 3"'; wings 2" 1"'.- 



Hab. Aru Islands. <$ $ in British Museum. 



