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wing-coverts apple-green, bright blue along the outer edge. 

 Total length 125 mm., win;j: 86, tail 37, culmeii 16, tarsus 10. 

 Iris brown; bill deep brown. 



Hab. North coast of British New Guinea [coll. Anthony). 



Ohs. Named in honour of ^Tr. ^laclhvraith, from whom I 

 received the specimen. 



Pachycephala ga.mblei, sp. n. 



? . Similar to P. rvfinncha, Sclat., but with larger beak, 

 larger even than in the male of that species, and the rufous 

 nuchal patch extending over the head to the centre of the 

 crowm. Frontal white feathers with dark centres; olive 

 colour of back slightly darker. Total length about 170 mm., 

 wdng 83, tail 67, culmen 21, tarsus 29. 



Hab. Mount Cameron, Owen Stanley Ilange, 5000 feet 

 [coll. Anthony). 



Obs. Named in honour of ^llr. Eobert Gamble. 



I take this opportunity of mentioning that Dr. A. B. !Meyer 

 described a Pachycephala shaiyii in 1884 ; therefore Count 

 Salvadori's P. sharpii, described from Loria's collection in 

 1896, must be re-named, and I have much pleasure in calling 

 it P. sahadorii, uom. emend. 



Epimachus ASTUAPioinEs, sp. n. 



Head and upper neck brilliant metallic purple. A bare 

 spot behind the eye. Back and rump brownish black, some 

 feathers tipped with metallic greenish blue. Tail bhick ; 

 central tail-feathers one third longer than the second pair, 

 and shining steel-blue glossed with purple. "Wings black, 

 outer webs with steel-blue relieDtiuns. Chin and throat 

 blackish purple, lower neck metallic coppery red, fading into 

 shining coppery green on the breast. Abdomen green, the 

 basal half of each feather being black. Flank -feathers long, 

 extending beyond the -wings, green fading into a coppery 

 olive-green and mixed with some large scale-iike feathers, 

 purple with metallic-blue borders. Side plumes short, 

 metallic purple, tipped with brilliant peacock metallic blue. 

 Total length 830 mm., wing 185, tail 595, tarsus 50. 



Hab. Dutch New Guinea. 



