EUTHYRHYNCHUS FLAVIGULA, seaz

Yellow-tinted Brown Honey-eater.

Euthyrhynchus flavigula, Schl. Neder). Tijdschr. Dierk. iv. p. 40 (1871).—Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. xii
9. 340 (1878).—Rosenb. Malay. Arch. pp. 553, 586 (1879).— Salvad, Ann, Mus, Civic. Genov. ol)
». 78 (1880).—Id. Orn. Papuasia e delle Molucche, ii. p. 341 (1881).

Timeliopsis, nov. sp.?, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genoy. vii. p. 964 (1875).

Euthyrhynchus faviguaris, Gadow, Cat. B. in Brit. Mus. ix. p. 287 (1884).

? Euthyrhynchus griseigularis, Guillemard, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1885, p. 642.

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Tuts species differs from its near ally 2. griseigula in having a more distinct wash of olive-yellow on the
under surface of the body; but under certain lights the two species seem to be almost inseparable. In size
it is rather smaller than L. e7rzsergula.

The type of this species is in the Leyden Museum, where it was described by the late Professor Schlegel.
It was discovered by Baron Von Rosenberg on the western shores of the bay of Geelvink in North-western
New Guinea, and it has been obtained at Sorong by the late Dr. Bernstein, and at Ramoi by Dr. Beceari.
Dr. Guillemard’s specimen from Andai was also evidently the present bird. He gives E. flavigula as a
synonym of E. griseigula without any comment. These two species may prove to be identical, it is true,
but at present the material at our disposal is not sufficient to settle the question.

General colour above olive, a little duller on the back, tail, and under tail-coverts ; the head and neck slightly
clearer olive, with the frontal feathers stiffened; wing-coverts dusky, edged with olive, the lesser coverts
like the back; the bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills pale dusky brown, externally edged with olive
like the back ; tail-feathers also dusky brown, broadly edged with olive like the back; lores and feathers
round the eye a little lighter olive than the head; cheeks and ear-coverts olive like the head, a little paler on
the former ; under surface of body pale drab-brown, clearer on the flanks and thighs; the throat, breast,
abdomen, and under tail-coverts distinctly washed with olive-yellow; under wing-coverts and axillaries pale
drab-brown, washed with olive-yellow ; quills
web. Total length 6°3 inches, culmen 0°8, wing 31, tail 2°5, tarsus 0-9.

The above description has been taken from the specimen lent to us by the Marquis Doria, and the Plate

dusky below, pale ashy rnfous along the edge of the inner

has been drawn from the same bird.
[R. B. S.J