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170. Melanocharis striativentris Salvad. 



Mt&anocharit s&riativentru Salvadori, Aim. Mvs.CKv. Genova (2) xiv. p. 151 (181*4 — Muroka, Owen 

 Stanley Mts.). 



3 jnv., Owgarra, Angabnnga River, 15. ii. 05. (No. A 2084.) 



3, Head of Aroa River, 28. iv. 05. (No. A2134.) "Iris brown, bill and 

 feet black." 



AVe have further received five males and a female from Bihagi, at the head 

 oftheMambare River, collected in February and March 1906. The female does 

 not differ from the male, except that it is slightly duller, a little less greenish, 

 in colour. 



Our frieud Count Salvadori has kindly compared two of our specimens with 

 the type. 



171. Rhamphocharis maculata (Rothseh. & Hart.). 



Eafa maculata Rothsch. & Hart., Woo. Znol. x. 1903. p. 448 (Owen Stanley Range, B.N.G.). 



c??, Owgarra, Angabnnga River, 11, 16. i. 05. (Nos. A 1978, 1998.) "Iris 

 brown, feet black, bill dark brown." 



These two birds agree fully with the type, except that the spots and white 

 tips of the feathers on the underside are not quite so large. 



Hartert has compared the type of " Eafa maculata " with those of 

 Rhamplwcharis crassivestris in the Genoa Museum, and can fully corroborate 

 Salvadori's opinion, that maculata belongs to the genus Rhamphocharis. 



Recently we have received the adult male and other examples from Bihagi, 

 head of Mambare River. Its upperside is olive-green, the base of the feathers 

 grey, separated from the olive-green tips by a blackish zone, but the general 

 appearance of the upper surface is uniform olive-green, only the crown and upper 

 tail-coverts being darker. Wings slaty black, outwardly margiued with olive- 

 green, inwardly with brownish white or whitish brown. Rectrices slaty black, 

 bases to the outer four white, shafts whitish from below. Uuder-surface light 

 grey, very faintly tinged with greenish. Under wing-coverts and axillaries white. 

 "Iris brown ; bill and feet blackish." Wing 71, tail 50, cnlmen 20, metatarsus 

 18-1 mm. 



Young birds are uniform olive-brown above, the females uniform brown below, 

 young males evidently brownish grey. The under wing-coverts are dark brown 

 along the middle. 



Perhaps Rhamphocharis maculata is only the southern representative of 

 Rh. crassirostris which is found at Arfak. 



172. Pristorhamphus versteri Finsch. 



Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 217. 



3 ? , Avcra, Aroa River, Febrnary, March 1903. (Nos. A 176, 375.) 



3 3 3, 2 ??, 2 3 jnv., Owgarra, Angabnnga River, October, November, 

 December 1904, January, February 1905. (Nos. A 1844, 1855, 1856, 1967, 

 1999, 2094.) 



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



1 3 jnv., Head of Aroa River, 30. iv. 05. (No. A 2147.) 



The young male is like the adult female, except that the bill is not so wide 

 and thick, the wings are shorter, ami the throat and chest, are more ashy olive. 



