28 NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE XXII. 1915. 



7. Chalcophaps stephani Puch. & Jacq. 

 See Nov. Zoo!. 1914, pp. 208, 286. 



11 c??, Dampier Island, February 1914 (Nos. 6511, 6539, 6571, 6016, 6702, 

 6703, 6709, 6719, 6732, 6733, 6735). 



8. Phlegoenas margarithae (D'Alb. & Salvad.). 

 See Nor. Zool. 1914, p. 208. 



1 c? ad. (No. 6523), 2 ? ? ad. (Nos. 6788, 6805), and 9 jnv. (Nos. 6524, 6568, 

 6569, 6570, 6591, 6760, 6772, 6777, 6793). 



The adult male has the throat and chest pure white, while in the adult female 

 there is a bufifish grey wash. 



9. Phlegoenas beccarii johannae .Scl. 



Phlogoeiias jokaiiiiae Solater, Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1877. p. 112, pi. xvi (exact locality not known, 

 but evidently Duke of York I., where Dahl collected it). 



1 c? ad. (No. 6731), 2 ? ? ad. (Nos. 6657, 6730), 2 ? ? jnv. (Nos. 6667, 6792), 

 Dampier I., February 1914. 



We take this to be the typical johannae, as the male aj)pears to agree in every 

 way with a male from New Hanover, and with the descriptions ; unfortunately, 

 however, we have no skins from the original locality. 



" Iris dark brown ; bill black (in young birds jiartly brown) ; feet, cJ ? ad., dark 

 red (in the young birds dull brownish red)." 



1 II. Macropygia rufa krakari subsp. nov. 



In colour hardly different from M. ruja rujocastanea from the Solomon 

 Islands, though less bright, a shade lighter, and with a delicate " bloom " on the 

 underside. 



Wings much longer: 147-150-5 mm., as compared with 138-146 mm. in 

 M. r. rufocastanea. Type, S ad., Dampier I., 4. ii. 1914 (No. 6565). 



9cJ?,all apparently adult, Dampier (or Krakar) I., February 2 to 8, 1914 

 (Nos. 6538, 6545, 6565, 6578, 6579, 6586, 6593, 6617, 6641). 



The iris is described as : " Reddish yellow, yellow, yellowish red, bright red ; 

 bill black ; feet bright red. crimson, cerise." 



11. Myristicivora spilorrhoa (Gray). 



Cari>ophaga spilorrhoa Gray, Proc. Zonl. Soc. London 1858. p. 186 (Aru Islands I). 



(Of. Nov. Zool. viii. 1901. p. 116. — There is no proof, so far, that several forms of Mi/risticivora 



hreed in the same localities, while all seem to be more or less migratory. Cf. Meyer & Wigles- 



worth, B. Celebes ii. pp. 627-31.) 



2cJf?, 2 ? ? ad., Dampier Island, February 1914 (Nos. 6558, 6572, 6633, 

 6704). 



"Iris dark brown ; bill, tip dull yellow, base slaty blue ; feet slate-blue." 



12. Carpophaga pinon astrolabiensis Meyer. 



Carpophaga loestennanni astrolabiensis A. B. Meyer, Abh. tfc Ber. Mus. Dresden no. 4. p. 14 (1891 — 

 Astrolabe Bay, German New Guinea). 



cJ ? ad., Dampier Island, 7. and 12. ii. 1914 (Nos. 6602, 6644). 

 " Iris dark red ; bill slate blue ; feet red." 

 Wing, cJ 282, ? 258 mm. 



