360 A NATUItALIST'S WANDERINGS 



Bob. Insulas Tenimberenses Larat et Maru. 



Ohs. Sp. gutture albo et dorso postico et crisso castaneis, sicut ■videtur, 

 facile dignoscendo. 



The two specimens of this species in the colle3tion (ire both marked as 

 $ ; but the male would probably not differ in coloration. " Irides dark 

 brown ; upper mandible sooty brown, lower mandible same at top, but 

 pale flesh colour at base ; feet lavender pink." 



This species belongs to the section with small bill, and the tail- 

 feathers much graduated, the outer pair being 1'3 in. shorter than the 

 middle pair. Uelow, the tail is pale, rufous, the inner webs of the 

 rectrices passing into blackish. Above, the outer tail-feathers are 

 margined externally at their bases with the chestnut-red of the rump. 



24. Mtiagra ruLvivENTEis, Sclater. 



Supra plumhea, capite et dorso nitore ccervleo tinctis ; alts et Cauda fusco- 

 nigricantibus ; subtus saturate castaneo-rufa, ahdomine et subalaribus 

 fulvis ; remigum marginibus interioribus albicantibus ; rostro et pedibus 

 nigris : long, iota 5'8, aim 2"7, caudce 2'7. 

 Eab. Larat, ins. Tenimberensem. 



06s. Proxima 71/. rufigulx ex Timor, sed ventre et subalaribus fulvis 

 distinguenda. 



"Irides dark brown, bill lavender-blue, legs and feet black:" The 

 type was obtained in Larat on August 2nd, 1882 ; and others later. 



25. MiCECBCA HEMixANTHA, Sclatcr. 



Supra flavLcanti-olivacea ; alls caudaque fuscis dorsi colore marginatis, 



loris et linea superciliari obsoleta flavidis ; macula auriculari fusca ; 



subtus flava, remigum marginibus internis albidis ; subalaribus flavis ; 



rostri fusci mandibula inferiore pallida ; pedibus nigris: long, tota i.'S 



alee 2 '9, caudoe 2'L 

 Bab. Larat et Lutur. 



Ohs. Species Peecilodryadi papuanse, quoad colores, fere similis, sed, ut 

 videtur, generi Microecie apponehda. 



26. Aetamides tjnimodtjs, Sclater. 

 Graucalus unimodus, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 55. 



The collection contained two ma'es and three females of this species. 

 The sexes are not quite similar, as wul be seen from the subjoined 

 diagnoses. 



$ Cinereus ; fronte, loris et capitis lateribus cum gutture toto ad medium 

 pectus ceneo-nigris ; alis et cauda nigris illis cinereo extus marginatis ; 

 subalaribus pallide isabellinis ; remigum patina inferiore albicanti- 

 cinerea; rostro et pedibus nigris : long, tota 13 '5, alse,l'i, caudoe 6 "5, 

 tarsi 1 ■ 3. 

 $ Mari similis, sed paulum obscurior et colore nigro nisi in loris carens ; 



crassitie paulo minore. 

 Bab. Larat, ins. Tenimberensem. 



Obs. Species Graucalo cseruleo-griseo afiBnis, sed colore corporis cineras- 

 centiore et remigibus intus non albis distinguenda. 



27. A. TiMOKLAOENSis, Meyer, in ' Zeit. f. die Ges. Omith.' 1884, p. 10. 

 ■ 28. Gkaucalus mklanops, V. & H. 



29. Lalage mcesta, Sclater. 



Supra sericeo-nigra ; superciliis brevibus et uropygio albis ; alis nigris, 



tectricibus minoribus et majoribus et secundariis albo late terminates; 



corpore subtus, subalaribus et remigum pogoniis internis ad basin omnino 



