fJoVITATES Zooi.or.icAE XXI. 1914. 9g* 



15. Phlegoenas beccarii admiralitatis snbsp. nov. 



Cf. Nov. Zool. 1906, p. 246. 



Compared with a skin of a male from New Hauover, and a male and two 

 females from Dampier Island— which we take to be like typical 70//// /;;/«<!— this 

 new form difiPers as follows : S. Top of head to uape nniform slate grey, without 

 a bronzy greenish patch on the occiput ; throat and chest-patch darker, more 

 greyish. ? . Throat and chest ashy grey, instead of the throat being whitish and 

 the foreneck to the chest greyish cinnamon buff ; abdomen brown instead of 

 cinnamon buff. The males of P. h. admiralitatis differ from those of P. h. intermedia 

 in the colour of the alidomen, which is cinnamon rufous-brown, not purplish bronze- 

 brown as in the latter. Wing of P. b. admiralitatis: i 105, 109, ? 104 mm. 



a c?<? ad. Manns, 1 ? ad. Manns, September and October 1913 (Nos. 6130, (5185, 

 0243). 



(? ? : " li-is dark brown ; bill black; feet dark purplish red." 



The female ditfers from the male in wanting the violet-purple patch on the 

 upper wing-coverts, in having the whole throat dark ashy grey like the crown, 

 the back, rump, and upper tail-coverts a shade more greenish, and in being 

 slightly smaller. Wing of males 105 and 110, of female 103 mm. 



16. Myristicivora subflavescens (Finsch). 



Carpophaga subflavescens Finsch, jljix 1880. p. 2 (■' Extreme nnrth corner of New Ireland "). 



(? ad. Manns, 11. ix. 1913 (No. 6038). 



" Iris dark brown; bill slaty blue ; feet slaty blue and light horn." 



17. Carpophaga rhodinolaema Scl. 



(Cf. Nov. Zool. xxi. p. 209.) 



Carpophaga rhodinolaema Solater, Proc. Zool.Soc. London, 1877. p. 555("Hab. Ins. Admiralitatis"). 



10 <? ? ad. Manus, 9.viii.— 1. x. 1913 (Nos. 5954, 6029, 6047, 0079, 6091, 0112, 

 6148, 0150, 01.52, 6190). 



" Iris dark red ; bill slaty bine ; feet purplish red." 



All these specimens are typical rhodinolaema, like those from Rook Island 

 (cf. Nov. Zool. xxi., anteii p. 209). We find that also the birds recorded by us 

 from St. Aignan and from the Egum group as C. van-wi/cki should be 

 rhodinolaema. 



These two forms are very similar to each other, and we find that certain 

 specimens are not easy to place. 



According to Friedrich Dahl {Mitt. Zool. S'lmml. Berlin i. 3, pp. 155, 156, 

 1809), C. ran-wijcki is entirely an inhabitant of small uninhabited coral islands with 

 high trees, while C. rhodinolaema lives on the large islands of New Ireland and 

 New Britain. Dr. Dahl thinks that some of the records may be incorrect, and 

 his view is very likely quite correct. The distribution of the two supposed species, 

 C. rhodinolaema and mn-wjcki, is, nevertheless, peculiar and little known. We 

 have C. rhodinolaema from : Admiralty Islands, New Ireland, New Britain, Rook 

 Island, St. Aignan, Egum ! We have, however, also a skin collected by C. Wahnes 

 from Massawa, where, according to Dahl, only van-wycki should occur, which 

 we cannot sepai-ate from rhodinolaema ! 



