(467 ) 



2 (?(?, 2 ? ?, Avera, Aroa River, February and March 1903. (Nos. A 180, 

 251, 412, 439.) 



" Iris dark brown (light brown), feet smoky brown or smoky slate, bill dark 

 brown." 



Wiug of c?, Mt. Cameron, 54 ; cJc?, Avera, 52, 53; ? ?, Avera, 48, 51 ; 

 ??, Mt. Gayata, 50-3 (not 51) mm. 



125. Sericornis arfakiana Salvad. 

 Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 228. 



4 c??, 1 c? juv., Avera, Aroa River, May, June 1903. (Nos. A 482, 487, 

 572, 573, 599.) 



3 (J?, Owgarra, Angabunga River, November 1904, Jaunary 1905. (Nos. 

 A 1831, 1843, 1970.) 



1 ? ad., 1 ? jnv., Head of Aroa River, April, May 1905. (Nos. A 2128, 2246.) 



Nos. A 573 and 2128 are evidently youug birds ; they are much more 



oehraceous brown, both above and below, entirely lacking the olive shade above 



of the adnlt birds ; the throat is rufous ochraceons, and so are the sides, the 



middle of the abdomen ouly being dull sulphur-yellow. 



126. Pratincola caprata aethiops (Scl.). 



Poecilodri/as aethiops Sclater, P. Z.S. 1880. p. 66. PI. VII. fig. 1. (New Britain). 

 Pratincola caprata atrala Rothsch. <fe Hart., Nor. Zool. 1903. p. 468 (Mt. Scratchley). 



3 cfcf, 2 3 juv., Owgarra, Angabunga River, October, November 1904. 

 (Nos. A 1820, 1877, 1894, 1939, 1947.) 



1 ? (sexed " S "), Avera, Upper Aroa River, 24. ii. 03. A. S. Meek. 

 (No. A 287.) 



Apparently the large form of black Pratincola from New Guinea must after 

 all be separated from the Ceylonese atrata, as the females appear to be greyer 

 and paler, and have white under and upper tail-coverts. Possibly the black of 

 the males is deeper and more glossy, hut larger series should be examined. 

 Our specimen (No. A 287) has white tail-coverts, and so have the two supposed 

 young males. 



127. Artamus maximus Meyer. 



Artamus maximus Meyer, Silziingsber. k. Akatl. Wiss. Wieii, lxix. p. 203 (1874 — Arfak). 



3 cj J, Owgarra, Angabunga River, December 1904. (Nos. A 1900, 1901, 

 1938.) 



2 S ad., 1 6 juv., Avera, Aroa River, March 1903. (Nos. A 334, 335, 336.) 

 " Iris dark brown, feet slate, bill chalky blue." 



128. Melanopyrrhus anais orientalis (Schleg.). 



Gracula <i,iui< orientalis Schlegel, Nederl. Tydschr. Dierk. iv. p. 52 (1871 — Boudey in New Guinea). 



S, Upper Aroa River, 30. xii. 1904. (No. B 120.) 



tJ, Lower Aroa River, 1905. (No. B 258.) 



"Iris bright clear yellow, feet pale yellow, bill straw-yellow." 



