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8. Tropidorhynchus lessoni. 



Tropidorhynchus diemenensis. Less. Tr. d'Orn. p. 401 ; Pucher. 

 Arch, du Mus. 1855, t. 21. 



Hab. Port St. Vincent, New Caledonia (B.M.) ; Isle of Pines 

 (B.M.) ; Loyalty Islands (B.M.). 



9. ACANTHIZA FLAVOLATERALIS. 



Head and upper part of neck cinereous ; back olivaceous ; quills 

 blackish-fuscous, margined with olive ; throat, breast, middle of the 

 abdomen, and a line from nostril to above the eye cinereous white ; 

 sides of abdomen bright yellow ; tail fuscous, lateral feathers black, 

 marked near the tip of each with white ; bill and feet black. 



Length 3" 8'", wings 2" 1'". 



Hab. Island of Nu. (B.M.) 



10. ZOSTEROPS XANTHOCHROA. 



Yellowish-olive ; lore and beneath the eyes black, the latter sur- 

 rounded with white ; throat and imder tail-coverts yellow ; sides of 

 abdomen rufous-grey ; middle of abdomen white, tinged with yellow ; 

 bill and feet plumbeous ; the former long and acutely pointed. 



Length 4" 3'", wings 2" 4'". 



Hab. Island of Nu. (B.M.) 



11. ZoSTEROPS GRISEONOTA. 



Head, lower part of back, margins of the wings, and tail olive- 

 yellow ; upper part of back cinereous ; throat and under tail-coverts 

 yellow ; breast pale cinereous, tinged with rufous ; sides of abdomen 

 rufous-grey ; middle of abdomen white, tinged with yellow ; bill 

 short and conical. 



Length 4" 6'", wings 2" 7'". 



Hab. Island of Nu. (B.M.) 



12. TURDUS XANTHOPUS. 



Turdiis xanthopus, Forst. Descr. Anim. p. 266 ; G. Forst. Icon, 

 ined. 151. 



Hab. New Caledonia. " Degbe " of the natives. Island of Nu. 

 (B.M.) 



The Merula vinitincta of Mr. Gould (P. Z. S. 1855, p. 165) is 

 closely allied to this species. 



13. Petroica 1 



Turdus minutus, Forst. Descr. Anim. pp. 88 and 257. 

 Hab. Isle of Pines. 



14. Myiagra perspicillata. 



Greyish slate-colour ; ring round eyes white ; throat and breast 

 rusty red ; abdomen and middle of breast rufous-white ; under tail- 

 coverts white ; quills fuscous-black, very slightly margined with 



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