No, l.J THE AUSTRAL AVIAN RECORD 13 



outer edge a line of green ; tail-feathers like the primaries ; 

 throat white, remainder of under-surface yellow, hke 

 the under wing-coverts ; upper mandible black, lower 

 yellow ; iris black ; feet yellow. Total length 120 mm. ; 

 culmen 10 (7 wide), wing 69, tarsus 14, tail 54. 



Type and Range, Cape York, North Queensland. 



Collected by Mr. Robin Kemp on February 28th, 1913. 



This is a most interesting addition to the Austrahan 

 avifauna. Its nearest allies seem to be the forms 

 Eopsaltria capito Gould and E. nana Ramsay. These 

 forms have been bandied about, at one time placed in 

 Eopsaltria and classed in the family Laniidce, at another 

 in Poecilodryas and referred to the Muscicapidm. In 

 the " Reference List " I lumped both the genera named 

 with PachycepJiala, and included all in the latter family. 

 I later separated the members of the genus PachycepJiala 

 {sensu lat.) into restricted genera, and was compelled 

 to introduce Tregellasia for the species named. They 

 were very aberrant and of restricted locale. The present 

 species gives us a nearer ally than hitherto known, but 

 its weak legs and feet amply distinguish it. In the 

 British Museum collection is a specimen from British 

 New Guinea which has been wrongly identified, so 

 that we have the fact that the present species also occurs 

 in that country. Whether Tregellasia is the offshoot 

 of Kempiella or vice versa is at present indeterminable, 

 but further collections will help to solve the question, 

 and also determine the relationship of both. 



Gregory M. Mathews. 



