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8. Tropidorhynchus lessoni. 



Tropic! or hynchus diemenensis, Less. Tr. d'Orn. p. 401 ; Pucher. 

 Arch, du Mus. 1855, t. 21. 



Hab. Port St. Vincent, New Caledonia (B.M.) ; Isle of Pines 

 (B.M.) ; Loyalty Islands (B.M.). 



9. ACANTHIZA FLAVOLATERALIS. 



Head and upper part of neck cinereous ; back olivaceous ; quills 

 blackish-fuscous, margined with olive ; throat, breast, middle of the 

 abdomen, and a line from nostril to above the eye cinereous white ; 

 sides of abdomen bright yellow ; tail fuscous, lateral feathers black, 

 marked near the tip of each with white ; bill and feet black. 



Length 3" 8"', wings 2" V" . 



Hab. Island of Nu. (B.M.) 



10. ZOSTEROPS XANTHOCHROA. 



Yellowish-olive ; lore and beneath the eyes black, the latter sur- 

 rounded with white ; throat and under tail-coverts yellow ; sides of 

 abdomen rufous-grey ; middle of abdomen white, tinged with yellow ; 

 bill and feet plumbeous ; the former long and acutely pointed. 



Length 4" 3 ,n , wings 2" 4"'. 



Hab. Island of Nu. (B.M.) 



11. ZOSTEROPS GRISEONOTA. 



Head, lower part of back, margins of the wings, and tail olive- 

 yellow ; upper part of back cinereous ; throat and under tail-coverts 

 yellow ; breast pale cinereous, tinged with rufous ; sides of abdomen 

 rufous-grey ; middle of abdomen white, tinged with yellow ; bill 

 short and conical. 



Length 4" 6"', wings 2" 7"'. 



Hab. Island of Nu. (B.M.) 



12. TURDUS XANTHOPUS. 



Turdus xanthopus, Forst. Descr. A.nim. p. 266 ; G. Forst. Icon, 

 ined. 151. 



Hab. New Caledonia. " Degbe " of the natives. Island of Nu. 

 (B.M.) 



The Merula vinit.incta of Mr. Gould (P. Z, S. 1855, p. 165) is 

 closely allied to this species. 



13. Petroica — ? 



Turdus minutus, Forst. Descr. Anim. pp. 88 and 257. 

 Hab. Isle of Pines. 



14. Myiagra perspicillata. 



Greyish slate-colour ; ring round eyes white ; throat and breast 

 rusty red ; abdomen and middle of breast rufous-white ; under tail- 

 coverts white ; quills fuscous-black, very slightly margined with 



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