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the bill, but diflfering in its softer body-plumage, longer toes, 

 softer tail and wings, and less graduated tail. Agreeing with 

 Amalocichla in its soft plumage, but differing totally by the 

 less compressed, shorter, and stouter bill. The wings are 

 evidently of the usual rounded form of TimeliidcB, but caunot 

 be described, being in moult. The tail is incomplete, but 

 seems to be almost square ; bill a little shorter thau the head ; 

 the strong tarsus about half as long as the tail. 



Ifrita coronata, sp. n. 



Crown black, with a broad blue circle; lores and a narrow 

 frontal line bu2. Above the eye a small rusty buff patch, 

 below the eye a black semicircle. Ear-coverts dark brown, 

 behind the eye a patch of elongated white feathers. Rest of 

 upper parts olive-brown; tail and wings dark olive-brown; 

 quills with more yellowish-brown outer edges and rust- 

 coloured inner edges. Some of the wing-coverts with buff 

 tips. Below pale ochraceous, washed with olive-brown on the 

 flanks and vent ; throat lighter, almost whitish. Under- 

 wing-coverts bright ochraceous buff. Maxilla deep brown, 

 mandible light-coloured. Wing about 88 mm., tail about 

 63, exposed part of bill 19, tarsus 29. 



Low country east of Port Moresby, Brit. New Guinea. 



Charmosyna atrata, sp. n. 



^ . Bill red ; forehead purplish black, centre of crown 

 darker. A patch of elongated lilac-blue feathers on the 

 occiput; neck and upper back black, with a reddish shade; 

 under surface dull black, sides of the breast dark green ; 

 back and upper wing-coverts dark green; lower back, rump, 

 and sides of the belly carmine ; rump with a large patch of 

 lilac-blue; upper tail-coverts dark purplish green; quills 

 black, outer webs broadly bordered with dark green ; lateral 

 rectrices green, with very narrow yellow edges near the tip, 

 blackish towards the base, without any red ; central rectrices 

 absent ; thighs purplish black ; under tail-coverts dark 

 purplish, with deep crimson tips ; feet orange, with black 

 claws. Wing 146 mm. 



Hab. Mt. Scratchley, British New Guinea. 



