( 475 ) 



The females have the head all ronnd, nape and throat ashy white, most feathers 

 with a more or less distinct grey shaft-line : in most specimens the upper tail-coverts 

 are pnre white, only the lateral ones having wide black median stripes, while in one 

 every feather has a blackish shaft-stripe, these stripes being wider on the longest 

 coverts, which are also washed with brown. One, evidently younger, female has 

 the head light brownish grey, each feather with a blackish shaft-stripe. Round the 

 eyes, in both sexes, is a bare yellow ring, which has evidently been yellow in life, 

 like the bill and feet. The males have larger dimensions, the wings beiug longer. 

 The top of the head is blackish grey with hoary whitish margins to the feathers, 

 the throat and jugulum are white with very broad blackish central areas, or one 

 might say blackish grey with wide white edges to the feathers. The males measure, 

 wings 81 to 85 ; females, wings 77 to 80-5. 



In addition to the skins from Owgarra, mentioned above, we have now 

 received : 



2 3 S and 4 ? ? from Bihagi, at the head of the Mambare River, on the north- 

 eastern side of the Owen Stanley Mountains. 



164. Cinnyris aspasia aspasia Less. 



Cf. Nnv.Zool. 1903. p. 211. 



1 i, 4 ??, Upper Aroa River, December 1904, January, February 1905. 

 (Nos. B87, 123, 157, 182, 210.) 



165. Cinnyris frenata frenata (S. Mull.). 



Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 213. 



<? ? , Upper Aroa River, January, February 1905. (Nos. B. 151, 222.) 



166. Dicaeum geelvinkianum rubrocoronatum Sharpe. 

 Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 215. 



4 S S, Avera, Aroa River, March, April 1903. (Nos. A 198, 460, 467, 475.) 

 6 <$S, 3 ? ?, Upper Aroa River, December 1904, January, February, 1905. 

 (Nos. B 109, 143, 148, 149, 150, 169, 185, 205, 215.) 



167. Oreocharis arfaki (Meyer). 

 Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 479. 



1 c? ad., 1 c? jnv., 2 ? ad., Owgarra, Angabunga River, October, November, 

 1904, January 1905. (Nos. A 1818, 1834, 1964, 1996.) 



168. Melanocharis bicolor Rams. 



Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 216. 



When enumerating the various forms of Melanocharis (I.e.) in 1903 we did 

 not fully understand them, for want of material, and made some great mistakes, 

 mixing up " Urocharis longicauda" with Melanocharis. We now give a new 

 and more correct list of our specimens, which belong to the following forms : 



