(480) 



Wing 3 about 69 — 7m (rather worn) ; wing ? about 62 mm. 



Type of M. obscura meeki : ? , 6. ii. 05. (No. B 208.) This female has been 

 selected as the type because it is in the best plumage. 



In our list of the specimens of the genus Myzomela {Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 224) 

 we have explained that we adopted the name fumata for the Aru birds, though 

 it was originally given to a specimen from Ontanata in South New Guinea, 

 because generally the birds from the southern lowlands of New Guinea are like the 

 Aru forms. For the same reason we have given a new name to the form found by 

 Meek, as it is not at all probable that the Myzomela from the high mountains 

 on the Upper Aroa River is the same as that from the lowlands on the southern 

 coast of Papua. 



Formerly we kept separate as two species the simplex group and the obscura 

 group, also cineracea from New Britain, for want of sufficient knowledge about 

 it. Hartert is now inclined to unite all these forms as subspecies of one species, 

 and even albigula and pallidior. If this be correct the forms of this group would 

 be distributed as follows : 



Northern Queensland to Cape York : obscura Gould, 1842. 



Northern Territory of" South Australia" : grisescens Hart., 1005. 



Mountains of British New Guinea : meeki Kothsch. & Hart., 190". 



Lowlands of Southern New Guinea (Ontanata) and Aru Islands ( ? ) : fumata 

 Bp., 1850. 



St. Aignan, Louisiade Islands : pallidior Hart., 1898. 



Eossel, Louisiade Islands : albigula Hart., 1898. 



New Britain : cineracea Bel., 1879. 



Mysori Island in Geelvink Bay : rubrobrunnea Mey., 1874. 



Obi, Central Moluccas : rubrotincta Salvad., 1878. 



Morty, Northern Moluccas : mortgana Hart., 1903. 



Batjan, Northern Moluccas : simplex Gray, 1860. 



179. Melithreptus lunulatus albogularis Gould. 

 Cf. Nov. Znol. 1905. p. 235. 



4 33, Upper Aroa River, November, December 1904. (Nos. B 42, 49, 

 50, 79.) 



Specimens from New Guinea agree with ours from Australia. Mr. Meek 

 collected a nice series at Cape York. 



180. Glycichaera fallax Salvad. 

 Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 435. 



3 ?, Upper Aroa River, October 1904. (Nos. B 15, 10.) 

 " Iris light grey ; feet slate; bill light brown." 



181. Glyciphila modesta Gray. 

 Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 435. 



6 3 ?, Upper Aroa River, November, December 1904. (Nos. B 60, 72, 73, 

 74, 77, 78.) 



" Iris brown ; feet and bill light brovyn." 



