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31). Myiagra nitida novaepomeraniae Rchw. 



(? Au Myiagra nitida nitida.") 



\_Milii\ijra nitida Gould, Proc. Zoul. Soc. London, 18.37. p. 142 ("Australia").] 



Myiagra novaepomeraniae. Reichenow, Orn. Monatsber. 1899. p. 3 (Neiipommern = Ne w Britain); 

 Mitt Zool. Samml. Miis. Berlin, i. .3. pi. ii. fig. 1 (1899). 



1 c?, 2 ?, Uook Lslaod, July and August 1913. (Nos. 5806, 5832, 5897, A. S. 

 Meek Coll.) 



Reicheuow somewhat rashly described one single female from New Britain, 

 after comparison with one single female from Tasmania — not the typical locality, 

 which is New Sonth AVales — as a new species. We consider onr three examples 

 not sufficient to judge if this form is seimrable, but the bill of most of our Australian 

 skins is a little larger. The gloss on the crown varies, and is even more developed 

 in some females from Sudest Island than in those from Rook and in Reicheuow's 

 type, judging from the figure. There does not seem to be anything in the supposed 

 deeper ferruginous colour of the chest, as one of our birds from the Cape York 

 Peninsula has it even deeper than " novaepomeraniae.'" In any case more material 

 is required to confirm the supposed new species, which is, of course, a closely allied 

 subspecies of ^[. nitida. 



37. Rhipidura ti-icolor melaleuca Qnoy & Gaim. 



[Mnacirapa tricolor Vieillot, Nour. Duil. dlli.-it. Xat. xxi. p. 490 (1818—" Timor," errore !). 



Substituted correct locality : New South Wales, by Stresemann from examination of the type. 



Cf. Journ.f. Orn. 1913. p. 606.] 

 Ehipidnra melaleuca Quoy & Gaimard, Voi/. Astrolabe, Zool. i. p. 180 (1830— New Ireland). 



? ad.. Rook Island, 25. vii. 1913. (No. 5823, A. 8. Meek Uoll.) 



38. Graucalus novaehoUandiae melanops (Lath.). 



[Turdus novae HoUandiae Gmelin, Si/st. Nat. i. ii. p. 814(1789—" Habitat in terra van Diemen."— 



Cf. Mathews, Nov. Zool. 1911. p. 326).] 

 Corrus melanops Latham, Ind. Orn. Suppl. p. xxiv. (1801—" Hab. in Nova HoUandia."— N. S. Wales, 



teste Mathews, I.e.). 



cJ ad., Rook Island, 2. viii. 1913. (No. 5900, A. S. Meek Coll.) 



G. n. melanops differs from G. n. novaehoUandiae in having, as a rule (though 



not always), a much larger bill, but it cannot be said to be paler on the upperside. 



According to Stresemann, G. n. melanops is only a winter visitor in the Papuan 



subregion (cf. Nov. Zool. 1914, jjart i.). 



39. Graucalus papuensis sclateri Salvad. 



[Corvus papnensi.'!Gnie:\m,S!;st. Nat. i. 1. p. 371 (1788— ex Daubeuton and Latham, " habitat in 



Nova Guinea").] 

 Graucalus sclateri Salvadori, .inn. Mas. Civ. Genova xii. p. 325 (1878 -New Ireland). 



1 (J, 2 ?, Rook Island, July and August 1913. (Nos. 5857, 5875, 5909, 

 A. S. Meek Coll.) 



40. Edolisoma amboinense rooki Rothsch. & Hart. 



Edollsoma amboinense rooki Rothseh. & Hartert, Bull. B. 0. Club, xxxiii. p. 107 Febr. 1914 

 (Rook I.). 



<S ad. slaty blue ; ¥ with the back brown, crown bluish grey, lores black, 

 feathers on eyelid above and below eye pale buff; underside buff, barred with black. 



