58 MACHiEMRHYNCHUS NIGEIPECTUS. 



line from the nostrils over each eye, the breast, abdomen, and under tail- 

 coverts bright yellow ; bill black ; feet bluish black. 



" Total length 5 inches, bill |, w^ing 2, tail 2 J, tarsi ^. 



" Hob. Cape York, Northern Australia." 



This bird has been figured also in the ' Birds of Australia,' Supplement. 



Mr. George Robert Gray, in his list of birds obtained by Mr. Wallace 

 in the Aru and Ke Islands, says (P. Z. S. 1858, p. 176) :— 



^^Mach^rirhynchus xanthogenys. 



" Differs from M.Jlaviventris, Gould (B. of Austr. Suppl. pi.), by having 

 a rather larger bill, by the back being less green, and the ear-coverts being 

 yellow instead of black. 



" Length 5'' ?^\ wings "2!' 4'\ 



"Hah, Aru Islands. 6 in British Museum." 



Again, the same author says (P. Z. S. 1861, p. 429), in his list of 

 Mr. Wallace's birds from Waigiou, Mysol, and Gagie Islands : — 



" Mach^rirhynchus albifrons, G. R. Gray. (Plate XLIII. fig. 1 ) 



" This bird is like the M. ccanthogenys, G. R. Gray, in many respects ; 

 but it is at once distinguished by the front and streak over the eyes being 

 white, and by the bill being rather narrower and slightly sharper in front. 



" The young bird is of a yellowish olivaceous, with the front and 

 eyebrows pale rufous; throat and breast white, the latter is waved with 

 fuscous beneath ; the rest of the body yellow, and olivaceous on the sides ; 

 wings and tail fuscous, with the coverts of the former margined with white, 

 while the quills are margined with yellow. 



'' Total length 4^^ 11^^ bill from gape 9i''; wings 2'' A'\ 



"Hal. Waigiou and Mysol.'' 



