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"'Skin, adult female, 5/3/'99. Length of wing, 4'7 ins.; tail, 

 •4-5 ins. 



This bird was concluding its moult, and the innermost quill 

 was "bursting." The winglet feathers had their sheaths still 

 attached. 



The finding of M. flauigula in West or S.W. Australia is now 

 placed on record, and the law of representation with this genus, 

 as defined by Gould, is a little interfered with. In likely proba- 

 bility it has journeyed from the central portion of the continent. 



Glycyphila albifrons, Gould. 

 Glycyphila albifrons, Gould, Bds. Austr., fol. vol. IV., pi. 29 ; 

 Gadow, Brit. Mus. Cat. Bds., vol. IX.. p. 211; Hall, "Key Bds. 

 Austr.," p. 39. 



a. Immature skin, 27/ll/'98. 



b. Immature skin, male, 27/ll/'98. Forehead black, a few of 

 the lateral feathers feebly tipped with slatey-white ; around eye 

 black, a faint ring of white appearing ; crown black ; narrow 

 line leaving angle of lower mandible, white; ear coverts silvery- 

 slate, behind which is an irregular line of white ; chin feathers 

 dusky-black, edged with impure white ; primaries and primaries- 

 coverts-margins yellowish-green ; under surface of wing fulvous ; 

 upper tail coverts rufous, central parts black ; abdomen, flanks, 

 and under tail coverts whitish, with centres of feathers narrowly 

 marked with brownish-black ; bill, legs, and feet black. Wing, 

 3 ins.; tail, 3 ins.; tarsus, 0*8 ins.; culmen, 065 ins. 



Entomphila leucomelas, Cuvier. 



Melicophila picala, Gould, Bds. Austr., fol. vol. IV., pi. 49. 

 Entomophila leucomelas, Gadow, Brit. Mus. Cat. Bds., vol. IX., 

 p. 220; Hall, "Key Bds. Aust," p. 40. 

 Skin, adult female, 19/10/'98. 



Cuculus pallidus, Latham. 



Cunulu? Inornatus, Gould, Bds. Austr., fol. vol. IV., pi. 85. 



Cuculus pallidus, Shelley, Brit. Mus. Cat. Bds., vol. XIX., p. 

 261; Hall, "Key Bds. Austr." p. 58. 



Skin, adult male, 4/9/'98. 



The male skins in my cabinet appear to fall into three phases 

 in the development of the plumage : — 



a. Young, in which white predominates throughout the 

 plumage, the feathers being broadly edged and dentated by the 

 white ; quill tips also white ; the pigment of the plumage beyond 

 the white patches is blackish-brown. Bill nutty-brown ; culmen, 

 0*65 in. 



b. Immature, in which white does not predominate throughout 

 the plumage. The feathers are narrowly edged with white, and 



