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could oi)ly apply to tlis Sula bird and not tj the bird from 

 Buru, judging from the description. 

 Hub. Bum. 



Pachycephala meeki, sp. n. 



cJ ad. Similar to P. leucoy aster, but differs iu having the 

 black cro^vii less sharply defined and almost passing into the 

 colour of the back, which is much darker and more blackish 

 than in P. leucogasfer. The tail and upper tail-coverts are 

 almost pure black and much darker than in the last-named 

 species. The sides of the breast and abdomen are grey, not 

 white. Tl'ie wi)ig is shorter, measuring only about 82 mm. 

 (against about 90 in P. leucog aster'). P. meeki also differs 

 from P. arciitorques in its grey sides and darker back, the 

 latter species being more closely allied to P. Itucogaster than 

 to P. metki. Measurements of the male: wing 81-82, 

 tail 64, culmen from base 17 mm. 



2 ad. Above mouse-brown, more greyish on the upper 

 tail-coverts; an indistinct line over the eyes and ear-coverts 

 rufous-brown ; throat buffy white ; remainder of under 

 surface rusty buff ; chest with some small and narrow 

 blackish shaft-lines ; middle of abdomen white; sides of 

 chest and flanks washed with grey ; under wing- and under 

 tail-coverts pale buff. 



Hah. Eossel Island, Louisiade A.rchipelago. 



Pachycephala contempta, sp n. 



The yellow PacJitjcepIiala of Lord Howe Island has been 

 treated as the same as P. gaitirralis iu the ' Catalogue of 

 Birds,^ vol. viii., where at least three different species or 

 subspecies are united under the title of P. gutturalis ; but 

 P. contempta, as I propose to call the Lord Howe Island form, 

 differs from P. gutturalis in having the basal portion of the 

 tail for more than half of its length greenish, often for two- 

 thirds of its length, in having the bill stronger and longer, 

 in having the yellow band on the hind-neck interrupted by 

 pale olive-green in the middle, and in being generally larger. 

 Wing 92-94.-, tail 83, culmen from base 1 7-18 mm. Another 



