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throat being, instead of white, tinted by the same rich yellow which occupies 

 the remainder of the underparts, by the front of the forehead being greyish, 

 by the lores and eyebrows being brownish yellow, and by the regions of the 

 ears being darker in the middle, also by the tail being longer and the beak 

 more compressed. 



" Wing 2 inches 2 lines, tail 2 inches 1 line, tarsus 74 lines, middle toe 

 4 lines." 



In ' Reistochten naar de Geelvinkbaai op Nieuw- Guinea,' door C. B. H. 

 von Rosenberg, p. 140, we find 



"Macheirhynchus nigripectus, Schl. 



" Differs from the species found in the Papuan Islands by the following : 

 it has a black collar across the chest, a yellow throat, greyish forehead, a 

 brownish yellow stripe along the lores and above the eye, with the region 

 round the eye dark-coloured ; it has a longer tail, and also a somewhat more 

 flattened bill. 



" Length — wings 2 d. 2 st., tail 2 d. 1 st. 



''Hal, Hattam.'' 



Perhaps my readers know the difference between a Dutch dium and an 

 English inch, or a Dutch streep and an English line. It is about the same 

 measurement, I believe, but by no means claim infallibility ! 



Mr. Gould thus describes MachcBrirhjnchus flaviventer (Aves, pi. xxxiii.), 

 P. Z. S. 1850, p. 277 ; also Handbook to the Birds of Austraha, vol. i. p. 257 :— 



" Crown of the head, lores, ear-coverts, wings, and tail black, the wing- 

 coverts tipped with white ; the secondaries margined with white, and the 

 outer tail-feathers margined on the apical portion of the external web and 

 largely tipped with white, the white becoming less and less until only a slight 

 trace of it is found on the central feathers ; back olive-black ; throat white ; 



