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1 <?, Dorey, Jnne 1897. W. Doherty coll. 



2 <?(?, 2 ??, Kapaur, December 1896, January, February 1897. W. 

 Doherty coll. 



1 cJ, Maori Mountains, Humboldt Bay, 3000 ft., January 1899. J. 

 Dumas coll. 



Melanocharis niger chloroptera Salvad. 



Like M. niger niger, but the male with the outer webs of the remiges and 

 greater upper wing-coverts olive-green. 

 Am Islands. 

 We have six specimens {Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 216). 



Melanocharis bicolor Rams. 



8. Above and below blue-black, under wing-coverts white, axillaries pale 

 sulphur-yellow. Outer rectrices with grey ante-apical patch, outer web in the 

 middle, inner web near the tip with white edge. Under tail-coverts mixed with 

 greenish or whitish. ? and c? jnv. apparently indistinguishable from that of 

 M. niger. 



British New Guinea, German New Guinea, and along the north coast to the 

 Amberuoh River, thus evidently meeting M. niger along the northern coast. 



We have no specimen from Jobi, where a form (M. unicolor Salvad.) occurs 

 which seems entirely to resemble M. bicolor, except that the under tail-coverts 

 are entirely black. 



We have before us the following series : 



4 cJcJ, 2 ? ?, Avera, Aroa River, February and March 1903. (Nos. A 257, 

 273, 316, 321, 344.) "Iris, <?, light brown (dark brown), feet black (slate, 

 dark slate), bill black. ? similar." 



7 SS, 1 ?, Upper Aroa River, November, December 1904, January, February 

 1905. (Nos. B 58, 80, 106, 118, 138, 195, 217, 220.) A. S. Meek coll. 



6 ?, Kotoi district, August 1898. A. S. Anthony coll. 



1 ?, Kone district, June 1898. A. S. Anthony coll. 



1 S, Ori-ori district, January 1895. A. S. Anthony coll. 



1 (?, Mailu district, July— August 1895. A. S. Anthony coll. 



1 S, Mt. Cameron, Owen Stanley Range, August 1896. A. S. Anthony coll. 



1 S, 2 ? ?, said to be from Mt. Gayata, Richardson Range, collected by 

 Emil Weiske (bought from Mcllwraith & Eacham in London). 



2 d<$, Mountains of British New Guinea. Emil Weiske coll. 



1 (J, 1 ¥, Milne Bay, February and April 1899. A. S. Meek coll. (Nos. 

 2355, 2461.) 



1 <?, Sattelberg, 27. vi. 99. E. Nyman coll. 



1 ? , Simbang, 4. ix. 99. E. Nyman coll. 



2 c?c?, 1 ?, Ambernoh River. J. Dumas coll. 



4 c? eJ, 4 ? ? , Takar, October— November 1896. W. Doherty coll. 



1 ?, Tana Mera, October 1896. W. Doherty coll. 



[We have also a specimen of the evident " make " of one of the native 

 hunters of Dutch New Guinea. It moults from the olivaceous plumage of the 

 young to the black one of the old male. Its locality is not known, but as it 

 is a rather good, full skin, it may have come from Tana Mera or thereabouts, 

 whence the best made skins used to come.] 



