Genus— TREGELLASIA. 
Tregellasia Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., 
pt. 5, p. 110, Dec. 24, 1912. (Type by original 
designation) ... ... ... ... ... Eopsaltria capito Gould. 
When I proposed this name I ’wrote : “ Differs from Pcecilodryas in its shorter, 
wider bill, weaker legs and feet and different wing-formula.” 
I admit two species and the second species was placed under Poecilodryas 
by Messrs. Rothschild and Hartert, though it had been described as a Leuco- 
phantes by Salvadori : the type species had been named by Gould as an 
Eopsaltria and a form was also so placed by Ramsay. 
Here my action was confirmed by that most antagonistic critic of my 
work, Ogilvie-Grant, who wrote : “ The type of Poecilodryas has large strong 
feet and tarsi, and the relative proportions of the wings and tail are very 
different, the wings being very little longer than the tail. In M. papuana the 
wings are proportionately very much longer and extend nearly to the end of 
the tail. Mr. Mathews has proposed the name Tregellasia for Eopsaltria 
capito Gould (= Poecilodryas capito of Sharpe, Gat., IV., p. 245). M. papuana 
is obviously congeneric with E. capito, and should also be included in the 
genus Tregellasia, together with various allied yellow forms, such as P. 
leucopsP 
The bill in Tregellasia is broad and short, somewhat flattened, and the tip 
strongly decurved, the rictal bristles pronounced. The wing has the first 
primary longer than half the second, which is shorter than the seventh ; the 
third much exceeds the seventh and is little less than the fourth, fifth and 
sixth which are subequal and longest. 
The tail is long and square. 
The feet are medium, but relatively weaker than those of Poecilodryas, 
as admitted above by Ogilvie-Grant. 
Key to the Genus. 
White ring round eye 
No white ring round eye 
196 
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leucops, p. 200 
capito, p. 197 
