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The Queensland Naturalist, 
VoL. I. 
DESCRIPITON OF A NEW PSEUDOGERYGONE 
FROM SOUTH-EAST QUEENSLAND. 
By W. E. Weatherill, of the Q’land Museum. 
Pseuclogerygone cantator, sp. iiov. 
Adult. General colour above, olive brown, tinged 
with fawn on the rump ; lesser and median wing-coverts 
like the back, greater coverts dark brown, narrowly mar- 
gined with olive brown. Primaries and secondaries edged 
with pale brown, which becomes indistinct towards the 
outermost featlier. Tail crossed by a broad band of black, 
basal half brown, each feather, with the exception of the 
two central ones whicli are brown, has a large white spot 
near the extremity of the innerweb, the two outermost 
feathers have two white spots, which are separated by a 
strip of brown running along the edge of the quill. Eye- 
ring, feathers under tlie eye, lores, and a line above the eye, 
gray. In front of the eye is an indistinct blackish spot. 
Under surface ashy white, lighter on the throat and under 
tail coverts. Thighs gray, lianks asliy gray, underwing- 
coverts and auxiliaries white, quills white below, becoming 
darker near tlie tips. Lhider surface of the primaries and 
secondaries wliitish along the edge of the inner web. Bill 
and feet black, iris red. 
Young have the eye-ring, a line above the eye, lores, 
feathers below the eye, and the edges of the primaries and 
secondaries sulpliur yellow. 
Measurements of an adult male in flesh. 
Total length 
Culmen 
Wing 
Tail 
Tarsus 
114 millimeters 
10 
56 
45 
20 
Differs from Pseuclogerygone fusca, with which it has 
been generally confounded, in the following characters 
Flanks and under tail coverts washed witli buff ; 
feet and legs weak ; size small, length (in 
millimeters) 96.5 ; culmen, 8.45 ; wing, 
48.35; tail, 43.20; tarsus, 16.50 .. fvsca. 
Flanks ashy gray ; under tail coverts white ; feet 
and legs strong ; size large, length (in milli- 
meters) 114; Culmen, 10; wing, 56; tail, 
45 ; tarsus, 20 
cantator. 
