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Show 1874.] BIRDS FROM QUEENSLAND. 603 This new species is at least one quarter less in size than the New- South-Wales bird, M. smithii, and is only found on the East-Coast ranges, about Cardwell, at Rockingham Bay. Several specimens were obtained, but unfortunately so late in the season that the plumage was much worn and discoloured. As far as I a m aware, their food is exclusively fruit, which may be fonud in abundance in the dense jungles and scrubs which clothe the sides of the ranges. This species may easily be distinguished from JE. smithii by the black and white markings about the head and face, and the large elongated heart-shaped spots on the under surface. Its note resembles that of AH. smithii, but is not so distinct a cry, and less bat-like, clearer, and more of a whistle. They assemble in small flocks of from ten to twenty in number, and frequent the palms and native fruit-trees in company with Ptilonopus superbus and Carpophaga assimilis. They are also found feeding in the immense fig-trees which abound in the scrubs. 3. PTILOTIS FRENATA, nov. sp. Of this new species, for which I beg leave to propose the name of P. frenata, on account of the markings at the base of the bill and round the face, some few individuals were obtained frequenting the Eucalypti while in blossom, near the margin of a swamp in the Cardwell district. The birds were shot by m y (then) collector, M r . Broadbent, w ho is already well known as an enthusiastic and careful taxidermist. To Mr. Broadbent's researches m y collection is also indebted for the first specimen of Eopsaltria inornata. Description.-Whole of the upper surface dull brown; head, lores, and nape of neck blackish brown, the feathers having indistinct lunulate markings and a gloss of olive in certain lights ; a semi-bare space below the eye has a few minute buffy white feathers ; behind the eye a semilunar patch of white feathers tipped with black, which, extending in a narrow line, almost encircles that organ. Eye-lashes black ; ear-coverts black, above them immediately behind the eye is a small tuft of bright wax-yellow feathers joining a large triangular patch of light greyish brown feathers on the side of the neck, which has the upper portion of it, nearest the ear-coverts, tinged with olive ; a narrow indistinct line of yellow on either side bounding the ear-coverts below, extending obliquely to the lower part of the chin, where, meeting in an angle, they form an indistinct yellow patch on the throat. Chin and remainder of the under surface dull brown, slightly darker in tint on the breast and sides of the neck, lighter on the centre of the abdomen and under tail-coverts; across the chest are indistinct wavy lines of a darker tint, on the flanks indistinct lanceolate markings of the same tint. Under surface of the shoulders, inner margins of tertiaries, secondaries, and the basal portions of inner margins of the primaries light buff. The outer webs of the spurious wing-feathers, the tertiaries, and secondaries, with some of the primaries, are on the upper surface tinged with olive. Bill black, with the basal portion (except the culmen) yellow. The 39* |