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coverts "brownish slaty ; remainder o£ the upper surface ashy- 

 brown. Rectrices and remiges ashv brown^ with lighter 

 brown outer edges ; quills quite pale on the edges of the 

 inner webs. Chin, throat, chest, and sides of body cinnamon- 

 rufous; flanks washed with brawn ; middle of abdomen 

 white ; under tail-coverts buffy white. Iris olive ; feet 

 brown ; bill black. Wing 69-70, tail 52, tarsus 21, culmen 

 16 mm. 



? ad. Like the male, but smaller. Wing 63-64: mm. 

 Hab. Mt. Mada, Burn (3000 feet) . 



Khipidura superflua, sp. n, 



^ ad. Top and sides of head light brown ; a line from 

 base of bill to above the eyes brownish buff. Hind-neck and 

 uppermost part of back like the head ; remainder of upper 

 parts bright cinnamon -rufous. Remiges brownish black, the 

 inner edges of all whitish buff; outer edges of secondaries 

 bright rufous. Rectrices blackish brown, the base and outer 

 edges of basal part dark cinnamon-rufous ; all, including 

 the central pair, broadly tipped with cinnamon, darker on 

 the middle ones. Throat white, with a black patch across 

 the crop; remainder of under surface rufous-buff, the sides 

 washed with brown; under tail-coverts and thighs cinnamon. 

 Wing 68, tail 80, tarsus 18, culmen 13 mm. 

 2 smaller, wing about 62 mm. 



JIab. Mt. Mada, Bum (3000 feet). 



Pachycephala mela.\cra burl'exsis, subsp. n. 



The Thickhead, with golden-yellow under surface in the 

 male, from Burn, has hitherto been considered the same as 

 P. clio from the Sula Islands, but it differs considerably from 

 the latter species iti being of a much deeper dark greenish- 

 olive colour on the upperside and in having all the upper 

 wing-coverts pure black with narrow olive edges. The golden- 

 yellow collar on the back of the neck is unbroken, the pectoral 

 pure black collar being very wide and broadly united with 

 The black sides of the liead. The remiges are edged with the 

 col(;ur of the back; the tail black. The female differs also 



