416 Ant. Reichenow und Her man Schalow: 



on their inner webs, whicli is widest at tlie base and does not 

 extend to the tips of the feathers; the legs and feet black; the 

 bin long and streng, curved, yellowish horn-colour, with the tip 

 only black. 



Total lengtb 4,8 to 5 inches ; wing 2,7 ; tail 1,95 ; tarsus 0,8. 



Hab.: Solomon Islands. 



374. Plectorhyncha fulviventris. 



E. P. Ramsay', Proc. Linn. Sog. K S. W. Vol. 6. p. 718. 

 Total lengtb about 8 inches; wing 3,8; tail 3,2; bill frora 



forehead 0,95; from nostril 0,5; from gape 1 inch. The fifth and 

 sixth quill nearly eqnal and longest, tail of 12 feathers. The 

 whole of the upper and under surface of a duU brown washed 

 with olive, browner on the rump and upper tail coverts; very 

 faintly tinged with olive-yellow on the outer webs of the wing 

 feathers; on the head and back of the neck the olive-yellow is 

 raore defined; the throat slightly fulvous, the breast, under wing- 

 coverts, abdomen and unter tail-coverts more decidedly fulvous, 

 inner webs of the wing feathers fulvous , the other portions of 

 the wings and tail dull light brown; legs flesh-colour; bill light 

 straw-colour, dark brown along the culmen. The third primary 

 is slightly shorter than the fourth; the fifth and sixth quill equal 

 and longest, the fourth very slightly shorter than the fifth; the 

 tail not quite so even as in Plectorhyncha lanceolata (Gould). 



Hab.: Mountain ranges of South East Coast of New-Guinea. 



375. Ptilotis marmor ata. 



R. B. Sharpe, Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. Vol. 16. 1882. 

 p. 319. 



Similis P. cinereae Sei., sed minor et plumis gutturis et prae- 

 pectoris albido marginatis distinguenda. 



Long. tot. 7; culm. 1,05; alae 3,8; caudae 3,7; tarsi 1,05. 



Hab.: S. E. Neu Guinea. 



376. Stigmatops Blasii. 



F. Salvador i, Ornith. Pap. pt. 3. 1882. p. 543 u. 566. 

 Griseo-olivascens, dorso magis olivascente; pilei cervicisque 



plumis in medio linea fusca notatis et fusco-olivascente limbatis; 

 genis paullum rufescente tinctis; subtus grisescens, pectore vix 

 olivaceo tincto, collo antico squamato, seu plumis prope apicem 

 pallidioribus et apice ipso fusco marginato; alis et cauda grises- 

 centibus; subalaribus et margine interno remigum, basin versus, 

 albis; iride brunnea; rostro fusco; pedibus in exuvie plumbeis. 



L. t. 0,120; al. 0,057; caud. 0,045; rostri 0,016; tarsi 0,016 m. 



Hab.: Amboina. 



377. Tephras oliiiaceus. 



E. P. Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales. Vol. C. p. 180. 



General colour above uniform dull brown, washed with olive, 

 the forehead and sides of the face of a smoky-brown tint; the 

 wings and tail blackish-brown, washed with olive on the outer 

 webs of the feathers, the inner webs of the quills and axillaries 



