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Show 448 MR. p. L. SCLATER O N BIRDS FROM [May 20, and front. In the tvpical specimen the lores and front are quite In other respects the two skins do not materially differ, regard being had to the fact that tbe type was formerly preserved in spirit. 2. GRAUCALUS SUBLINEATUS, sp. nov. (Plate XXXVI.) Cinereus ; remigibus et rectricibus nigris, Mis extus cum tectricibus majoribus anguste albo marginatis; abdomine albo regulariter transfasciato ; subalaribus albis cinereo transfasciatis; remigum pagina inferiore albicante; rostro et pedibus nigris. Long, iota 9, alee 5*4, caudee 4*3. Hab. Nova Hibernia (Brown). Obs. Sp. forma et statura G. lineati et ejusdem coloris, sed loris vix nigricantibus et fasciis abdominis diversa. Of this apparently new species of Graucalus, one specimen, marked male, is in the collection, obtained in the district of Topaia, New Ireland, in September 1878. The irides are described as " yellow ;" and the bird is said to be also met with in N e w Britain. 4. PACHYCEPHALA MELANURA, Gould, B. Austr. ii. pi. 61. From Palikuuru Island ("a small island in midchannel between New Britain and Duke-of-York Island ") Mr. Brown sends five examples of a Pachycephala which I do not venture to separate from P. melanura of North Australia. Two adult males agree closely with a skin of P. melanura from Cape York in the collection of Messrs. Salvin and Godman, except in having the outer edgings of the secondaries rather more greyish. Of three examples marked "female," all have the abdomen yellow and back olive, and one has brown-chestnut margins to the secondaries and wing-coverts. It is possible these may be really young males, as the female of the Cape- York bird (in Mus. S.-G.) is of a much paler and more uniform colour, with only a wash of yellowish below on the breast and crissum. Mr. Brown in his M S . noted this species as "abundant" in Palakuuru, and " eyes and legs black" in both sexes. I do not know Pachycephala citreogaster (!), Ramsay, P. L. S. N. S. W . i. p. 67, described from a spirit-specimen from New Britain, unless it be referable to another stage of plumage of this species. 5. MYZOMELA SCLATERI, Forbes, anted, p. 275, PI. XXV. fig. 2. Mr. Brown now sends a pair of this fine new Myzomela, Mr. Forbes's type of which was received in a letter from the same correspondent. Like the type, they were obtained on the island of Palakuiiru in June 1878. The female may be diagnosed as follows :- Supra saturate olivacea ; pileo, alis et cauda nigricantibus, extus olivaceo limbatis ; subtus grisescenti-flavida, gula coccineo vix tincta. 6. MYZOMELA CINERACEA, sp. nov. (Plate XXXVII. fig. 1.) Saturate cineracea unicolor; subalaribus et remigum marginibus |