. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 18. PSEFDOGEBYOOXE. 2] 5 brown, slightly tinged with olive on the primaries, the secondaries with paler ashy margins; sides of face ashy brown, rather darker on the ear-coverts; in front of the eyes a loral spot of dull white ; cheeks and entire under surface of body sulphur-yellow; under wing-coverts and axillaries white, washed with pale yellow; quills browu below, edged with white along the inner web. Total length 3-6 inches, culmen 0-4, wing 1-85, tail 1*4, tarsus 0-65. Hab. Island of Solor. a. Ad. sk. Solor. A. R. Wallace, Esq. (Type of spec
. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 18. PSEFDOGEBYOOXE. 2] 5 brown, slightly tinged with olive on the primaries, the secondaries with paler ashy margins; sides of face ashy brown, rather darker on the ear-coverts; in front of the eyes a loral spot of dull white ; cheeks and entire under surface of body sulphur-yellow; under wing-coverts and axillaries white, washed with pale yellow; quills browu below, edged with white along the inner web. Total length 3-6 inches, culmen 0-4, wing 1-85, tail 1*4, tarsus 0-65. Hab. Island of Solor. a. Ad. sk. Solor. A. R. Wallace, Esq. (Type of species.) 7. Gerygone hyposantha. Gerygoue xanthogaster, Miis. Lvijd. Gerygone hypoxantha, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. xii. p. 345; Shurpe, Notes Leyden Mus. i. no. 9, p. 28. Adult male (Misori, Von Rosenberg ; type of species). General colour above dull olive-brown, more dingy on the head ; wing-coverts and quills dark brown, edged with the same olive-colour as the back, a little brighter on the primaries; tail-feathers dark brown, edged with olive and lighter ash-colour at the tips, before which is a shade of black forming an indistinct bar ; lores yellowish white ; in fi'ont of the eye a spot of dusky black ; round the eye a ring of yellow ; sides of face and cheeks yellow, with an olive shade on the upper margin of the ear-coverts ; under surface of body yellow from the chin to the vent, the sides of the upper breast olive-brown, the flanks washed with olive ; under wing-coverts white, washed with yellow. Total length 3-7 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 1-95, tail 1-45, tarsus 0-6. (Mus. Lugd.) Adidt female. Like the male, but a little duller in colour. Total length 3"6 inches, culmen 0-5, vring 2. tail 1-5, tarsus 0-6. (Mus. Lugd.) Hab. Island of Soek or Misori, in the Bay of Geelvink. 18. PSEUDOGERYGONE. Gerygone, pt., auct. recent. Type. Pseudogerygone, Skarpe, Azotes Leyden Mus. i. no. 9, p. 28 (1878) P. Wing of Pseitdoc/erygonepersonata. Mange. New Guinea an
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