296 NnVITATES y.OOLOGirAE XXI. lOU. 



"Iris tlurk brown ; l)ill bhink, whitish :it Inse of lower mandible ; tVot dull 

 black." 



Wings of males 67-.i-Tl, puce 75'o ; of the three females 64-5-G7 mm. 



4U. Graucalus papuensis ingens Rothsch. & Hart. 



Gmxcalus papmiisls iiifieiix Rothschild and Hartert, Bull. B.O. Club xxxiii. p. 107 (I'.IM— Manus^ 

 Admiralty Islands). 



"Nearest to G. p. schiferi from New Britain and the neighbouring islands, but 

 larger, and diftering from all the forms of 0. papunnsis in having the shafts of the 

 tail-feathers seen from below blackish, either entirely or for the greater part of their 

 length, and not whitish thronghout. 



"Wing cJ 167-170, ? 162-170;"); tail 119-128; culmen 3.5-36 mm." 



As in the other forms of G. papuensis the male has, of coarse, the lores and 

 forehead black, while they are slate-grey in the females. 



We have received two males (Nos. 6012, 6117) and seven females (Nos. 6016, 

 6019, 6U43, 6145, 0189, 6216, 6220). 



The iris is dark i)rown, bill and feet black. 



41. Edolisoma amboinense admiralitatis llothsch. ct Hart. 



Edollsoiiia ambi)'iiieii^p admiralitatis Rothschild and Hartert, Bull. B.O. Club, xx.xiii. p. 108 (1911— 

 Manus, Admiralty Islands). 



S ad. Nearest to E. a. roohi {Bull. B.O. Club .xxxiii. p. 107 and Xov. Zool. 

 xsi. p. 215), but smaller, and with the edges of the greater upper wing-coverts and 

 secondaries whitish, not blue-grey. 



Wing 104-110 mm. 



? ad. Like that of E. a. roohi, but more reddish underneath, and with the 

 whitish streaks on the ear-coverts less pronoiuiced. Throat uniform bull or pale 

 rufous or with a few blackish dots only, not barred as iu most females of 7^. a. ijrui/i 

 and E. n. rooki. 



Wing 103-] 05 mm. 



4 (Jc? ad. (Mos. 5062, 6123, 6128, 6102); 2 .JcJjuv. (Njs. 610S, 6211) ; 4 ? ? 

 (Nos. 6107, 6191,6205, 6212). 



Iris dark brown, bill and feet black in both sexes. 



42. Pachycephala pectoralis goodsoni subsp. nov. 



6 <?c? ad. (Nos. 5958, 5970, 5974, 5980, 5981, 5982, 5983) ; 2 (JcJjuv. (Nos. 

 5961, 6015); 3 ? S (Nos. 5959, 5964, 6036), Manns, September and October 1913. 



The adult males are more brilliant golden yellow underneath than two males 

 from Rook Island {anted, p. 216), and two others from New Hanover, and the bills 

 are rather longer, in fact distinctly larger than in the two males from Hook Island, 

 though not more so than iu the New Hanover ones. Moreover the females have 

 the throat almost pure white, not brownish buff I Wings 83-94 mm. Named after 

 Mr. Arthur Goodson. 



In -Xov. Zool. p. 216 we have used binomial nomenclature for P. Jinschi, 

 because it appeared from the literature that P. Jinschi and dahli occurred in the 



