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G. simus and sckistaceigularis of the Fiji Islands aud New Hebrides are their 

 representatives. Probably the representative on New Guinea is castaneiventris, 

 but we prefer, in order to avoid an error, to name the new form binomially, 

 Cacomantis excitus. 



The type is No. A 2104, Owgarra, Angabnnga River, 16. ii. 05. " Iris brown 

 (light brown), feet yellow (chrome yellow, lemon yellow, dirty yellow), bill black." 

 We have the following skins in addition to the type : 

 <J, Avera, Aroa River, 21. ii. 03. (No. A 202.) A. S. Meek coll. 



2 (?(J, Bihagi, head of Mambare River, north side of Owen Stanley Mountains, 

 10. ii. 00. (Nos. A 2426, 2362.) A. S. Meek coll. 



1 ad., Aroa River. E. Weiske coll. 



The following young bird appears to belong to this form : 



1 nestling, Mt. Knntsford 11,000 ft., 19. viii. 1898. A. S. Anthony coll. 

 Upperside brown, unbarred, with rusty edges to the feathers, reetrices (quite short, 

 not yet half-grown) bluish slate-black, the middle ones edged, the lateral ones 

 also barred with rufous, underside barred. 



Cacomantis variolosus (Horsf). 



Cueidus variolosus Vig. & Horsf., Trans. Linn. Sue. London, xv. p. 300 (18'20 : Australia). 

 Cueulus symbonomus Miiller, Verh, Nat. (resell., Land- en Volkenk., p. 177 ( l8ii'J-44 : Timor). 



Salvadori, Om.-Pap. I. p. 340, and Finsch, Notes Leyden Alus. xxii. p. 89, 

 reject the name variolosus, probably because the type is a young bird : an arbitrary 

 proceeding which, if followed, would — like the introduction of philological scruples — 

 go far to endanger stability in nomenclature. 



Besides a series from Australia, the Key Islands, Ceramlaut, Batjan, Kisser and 

 Obi, we have an adult bird shot by William Doherty near Dorey, in June 1897, 

 and two young ones from German New Guinea, shot by Dr. Nymau and Captain 

 Webster. 



Chrysococcyx meyeri Salvad. 



Chrysococcyx meyeri Salvadori, Aim. Mus. Civ. Gen., vi. p. 8'2 (1874 : Arfak). 



1 ? ad., Arfak (Mori), 29. iv. 1875. Beccari coll. (Specimen f of Salvadori's 

 list, Orn. Pap. i. p. 346.) 



1 S ad., Kapaur, 3000 ft,, December 1896. W. Doherty coll. 



3 c? ad., 3 ? ad., Bihagi, head of Mambare River, March 1906. A. S. Meek 

 coll. (Nos. A2515, 2552, 2599, 2611, 2612, 2653.) 



1 <J ad., Aroa River, 5000 ft, January 1900. E. Weiske coll. 



2 c? ad , Avera, Aroa River, 28. i., 28. ii. 03. A. 8. Meek coll. (Nos. A 142, 

 323.) ' 



1 ? ad., 1 <S juv., head of Aroa River, 24, 27. iv. D5. A. S. Meek coll. (Nos. 

 A 2115, 2130.) 



1 <S ad., 1 ? ad., 1 juv. Owgarra, Augabuuga River, 6000—8000 ft., 16. xi.04 ; 

 17, 10. i. 05. (Nos. A 1857, 1963, 1973.) 



1 ?, Kone District, British New Guinea, June 1898. A. S. Anthony coll. 



1 cj ad., Mt, Cameron, Owen Stanley Range, 7000 ft., 12. viii. 1896. A. S. 

 Anthony coll. 



2 ? ad., Milne Bay, British New Guinea, 9. ii., 12. iv. 1899. A. 8. Meek 

 coll. (Nos. 2286, 2460.) 



