362 A NATURALIST'S WANDERINGS 



referred to, have the tips of the remiges quite as broad as in those from 

 Timor-laut. In a Lombock specimen (" ex Stevens ") the tips of all the 

 feathers are white ; a Batanta and a New-Holland specimen have no white 

 tips at all ; one from, Halmaheira and one from Burn (both from Mr. 

 Wallace's collection) except in one feather, have no white on the remiges ; 

 yet all of them have been determined to be, and are undoubtedly A. 

 leuaigaster (Val.) [H. 0. F.] 



31. DiCRUROPSIS BRACTEATUS, Gould. 



32. Pachyoefhala arctitorqcis, Sclaler, loo. cit, PI. XIII. 



P. kebirensis, Meyer, op. sup. cit. 

 P. riedelii, Meyer, op. sup. cit. 

 Supra cinerea, alls caudaque nigris cinereo limbatis, pileo nucha et capitis 

 lateribus nigris ; subtus alba, torque jugulari angusto nigra ; subalaribus 

 et remigum marginibus interioribus albis ; rostra et pedibus nigris : long, 

 tota 5'5, alse, 3'0, caudx 2'2. Fern. Supra fusca, in pileo rufescens ; 

 alis nigris extus rufo limbatis ; stibtus alba, obsolete nigra striata. 

 Hah. Larat, ins. Tenimberensem. 



Dr. Meyer, in the paper referred to, has described two new species of 

 Pachycephala, whose names are given above as synonyms. If he is correct 

 in his determinations we have the curious fact that, notwithstanding my 

 more thorough examination of a wider field, which included the region 

 whence he obtained his birds, the whole series obtained by me contained 

 no females of P. arctitorquis and no males of P. riedelii (were Dr. Meyer's 

 specimens sexed?); while those who made the collection examined by 

 Dr. Meyer, obtained in Babbar (an island at no great distance to the 

 W. of Yamdena) females of P. arctitorquis, and evidently na males (so 

 recognised by Dr. Meyer), and females of P. kebirensis (Meyer), with- 

 out one of its males. I dai'y saw the collections made in Timor-laut by 

 the Amboinese hunters making this collection, and I feel confident that 

 no species of Pachycephala — one of the groups I am particularly in- 

 terested in — was obtained by them which was not also in my collection. 

 After comparing Dr. Meyer's descriptions with the long series I have 

 of this bird, nearly all of which Dr. Solater had before him when writing 

 his original description, and which contains birds in almost every stage 

 of plumage, from the young bird to the fully adult, I have little hesita- 

 tion in affirming that P. arctitorquis, (S Meyer), from Timor-laut and 

 Babbar, is but the immature male, and P. kebirensis (Meyer) the nearly 

 fully adult /emoZe of P. arctitorquis, in which the colour of the bird when 

 fully adult is black ; while P. riedelii is a still younger female of the 

 same species. From this it would seem clear to me that P. arctitorquis, 

 Sol., occurs in Babbar also, for the examples before Dr. Meyer from that 

 island were young males and immature females, while from Timor-laut 

 he had adult males, immature males (?, Meyer), and still younger 

 females (riedelii, Meyer). [H. 0. F.] 



33. P. Fusco-FLAVA, Sclater, loc. cit., PI. XXVII. ; Forbes, P. Z. S., 1883, 

 pi. 588, PI. LIII. 



Obs. Similis P. leucogastro, sed torque angusto distinguenda. 



The pair of these species were obtained in Larat, in the first week of 

 August 1882. The iris is marked " reddish brown " in the male, and 

 "dark brown" in the female; the feet " blue-black " in the male, and 

 " lavender-pink " in the female. 



3i. Dica;uM FCLGIDTJM, Sclater. 



(Figured in Gould's 'Birds of New Guinea,' fiarf 16.) 



