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showing a dorsal white patch ; white aLir bor broad and well- 

 defined ; tail-feathers black and twelve in number ; throat 

 and all under surface white; middle under tail-coverts 

 black ; feet reddish orange in skin. Nasal caruncles well- 

 developed. 



This species is exactly intermediate between P. atriceps 

 •and P. verrucosus in the disposal of the black and white 

 on the sides of the head and neck. In P. atriceps the ear 

 is situated in tlie middle of the white area, while in 

 P. verrucosus the ear is in the middle of the black area. In 

 the new species the ear is exactly on the border, half in the 

 white and half in the black area. 



Wing 305 to 310, tail 145, culmen 65, tarsus 65, outer 

 toe and claw 110 mm. 



Had. jMacquarie Inlands. Seat by Mr. Henry Travers. 



A note ^ras read from Dr. Bowdler Sharpe calling 

 attention to the differences exhibited by the Robin-Fly- 

 catcher {Petroeca leggii) from Southern and Western 

 Australia. The examples from the latter country seemed to 

 be distinct, and Dr. Sharpe proposed for them the name of 



PeTRCECA CASIPDELLI, sp. U. 



Similis P. leggii, sed fascia frontali alba minore, et albediue 

 alarum magis restricta. 

 Hub. W. Australia. 



Mr. F. J. Jackso.v sent for exhibition specimens of two 

 apparently new species from Nandi in Equatorial Africa, 

 for which he proposed the names of 



Pholidauges sHARPir, sp. n. 



P. purpurascenti-niger : speculo alari albo nullo : gutture 

 albicante, prrepectore et corpore reliquo subtiis dilute 

 cervinis : subcaudalibus quoque cervinis : subalaribus 

 et axillaribus nigris. Long. tot. 72 poll., culm. 0"55, 

 alte 4'15, caudte .2'6, tarsi 0'85. 



Parus xigricinereus, sp. u. 



d" . Similis P. funereo, A'err,, sed tectricibus alarum albido 

 niinule npicatis : capitis plumis schistaceo marginatis : 



