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Show 198 MR. P. L. SCLATER ON BIRDS FROM TIMOR LAUT. [Apr. 17, feathers much graduated, the outer pair being 1*3 inch shorter than the middle pair. Below, the tail is pale rufous, the inner webs of the rectrices passing into blackish. Above, the outer tail-feathers are margined externally at their bases with the chestnut-red of the rump. 15. GRAUCALUS UNIMODUS, Scl. P. Z. S. 1883, p. 55. The present collection contains two males and two females of this species, which was described from a single female example. The sexes are not quite similar, as will be seen from the subjoined amended diagnoses. 8 . Cinereus ; fronte, loris et capitis lateribus cum gutture toto medium pectus aneo-nigris; alis et cauda, nigris illis cinereo extus marginatis; subalaribus pallide isabellinis; remigum pagina inferiore albicanti-cinerea ; rostro et pedibus nigris. tota 13*5, ala 7*3, cauda 6*5, tarsi 1*3. 2 . Mari similis, sed paulum obscurior et colore nigro nisi in carens ; crassitie paulo minore. 20. PACHYCEPHALA FUSCO-FLAVA, sp. nov. (Plate XXVIII.) Pachycephala, sp. inc. §, Scl. supra, p. 51. Supra olivaceo-viridis, alis caudaque nigris, olivaceo limbatis; fulvescenti-fiava, in ventre imo et crisso fiavicantior, lateribus capitis rufescentibus; subalaribus et remigum marginibus ochracescenti-albis; rostro nigro, pedibus corylinis. tota 7*3, ala 4*2, cauda 3*3. 2 . Mari similis, sed colore corporis subtus ochraceo distinguenda. Hab. Larat, ins. Tenimberensem. The first collection contained a single female example of tbe present species, which I was unwilling to describe. W e have now a male from the same island, which enables me to characterize the species. It would appear to belong to sect, i c of Count Salvadori's arrangement; but, as noted above, the sexes are not quite similar in coloration. The male is labelled " irides dark brown, legs and feet sooty blue ;" the female, " irides dark brown ; legs and feet black." 21. STIGMATOPS SQUAMATA, Salvad. Orn. Pap. ii. p. 386. Nectarinia, sp. inc., Scl. supra, p. 51. The former collection contained two skins in bad condition (marked " $ ") which I thought might probably be referable to a female of some species of Nectarinia. The present collection comprehends nine specimens of the same bird of both sexes. It is evidently a Meliphagine bird of the genus Stigmatops, and, so far as I can tell without actual comparison with the types, inseparable from S. squamata of Salvadori. This species was discovered by Rosenberg on Kbor Island between the Ke group and Ceram laut, and may therefore probably also occur in the Tenimber group, from which Khor lies not very far north. |