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44. Myzomela cineracea Scl. 



Myzoinela cineracea Sclater, Proc. Zocl. Soe. London, 1879. p. 448, pi. 37 (New Britain). 



8 <? ad., 4 ? ad., Rook Island, July 1913. (Nos. 5718, 5719, 5784, 579G, 5810, 

 5811, 5840, 5863, 5870, 5880, 5881, 5882, A. S. Meek Coll.) 



" Iris brown ; bill black ; feet slaty-blue." 



Reichenow described only the young, but not the adult female. The adult 

 male has the upperside slate-grey, upper tail-coverts with narrow brownish edges. 

 Chin, throat and chest slate-grey, an almost imperceptible shade darker along the 

 middle, gradually merging into the ashy-grey abdomen. Under wing-coverts and 

 inner lining of quills white. Wings 75-78 mm. The adult female is much smaller, 

 chin with pink edges to the feathers, throat as pale as abdomen, only along the 

 middle an elongated dark slate patch. Wings only 64-65 mm. In nearly all 

 Myzomela the female is considerably smaller than the male. 



45. Cinnyris freuata frenata (S. Miill.). 



Neclarhna frenaia S. MilUer, Verh. Nat. Gescli. Nederl. Bez., Land- en VolkenkunJe p. 17S (1843— 



Lobo, New Guinea). 

 Cinnyris frenaia Jtava Heinroth, Journ.f. Orn., 1903, p. 85 (New Britain). 



(J ad.. Rook Island, 8. viii. 1913. (No. 5947, A. S. Meek Coll.) 

 40. Cinnyris sericea corinna (Salvad.). 



[Cinnyris sericeus Lesson, Diet. So. Natur. i. \\. L'l (1827— " Dovery," which ia evidently a false 



rendering of " Dorey," New Guinea).] 

 Hermotimia corinna Salvadori, .itti R. Ace. Torino, xiii. p. 532 (1878— Duke of York Islands). 



5 cJ ad., 2 ? juv., 3 ? , Rook Island, July 1913. (Nos. 5748, 5757, 5782, 5785, 

 5797, 5798, 5801, 5838, 5839, 5864, A. S. Meek Coll.) 



47. Munia spectabilis (Scl.). (?) 



Dnnacicola xpet-lnbili.i Si'later, Pror. Zool. Soe. London, 1879, p. 449, pi. xxxvii (New Britain, 

 Brown Coll.). 



lie?? jnv. (? and ¥ ad.). Rook Island, July and August 1913. (Nos. 5824, 

 5825, 5826, .5827, 5828, 5829, .5846, 5847, 5848, 5849, 5850, A. S. Meek (!oll.) 



These birds are all immature, unless the adult female closely resembles the 

 young, in which case two or three of the females may be adult. A few of these 

 birds show black feathers appearing on the crown and throat, and one white ones 

 on the breast, also black on the under tail-coverts. They appear to be M. sjiectabiUs, 

 but to be sure of this it would be desirable to compare adult birds. 



48. Aplonis metallica nitida (Gray). 



[Lamprotornis metallicus Temminck, PI. Col. 2Gl) and text (1824 — " Timor, Celebes " — errore ! We 



have substituted Amboina as the original locality).] 

 Calornis nitida Gray, Proc. Zool. Soe. London 1858. p. 181 (New Ireland). 



8 c?? ad., 1 ? jun.. Rook Island, July and August 1913. (Nos. 5710, 5711, 

 5720, 5721, 5722, 5948, 5949, 5951, 5952, A. S. Meek Coll.) 

 " Iris crimson, bill and feet black." 

 A. m. nitida is well distinguishable from ^1. m. metallica. Cf Stresemann, 



