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6. Phlegoenas margarithae (D'Alb. & iSalvacl). 



A nfea, p. 28. 



1 (? ad., 2 ? ? ad., 3 juv. from Vulcan Island, December 1913, January 1914. 

 (Nos. 6415, 6444, 6494, 6500, 6506.) 



" Iris dark brown : bill black ; feet red." In the young birds the feet are " dull 

 reddish brown." 



7. Reinwardtoena reinwardtsi griseotincta Hart. 



Reimmrilloeiias rehmanjti giiseotineta Hartert, Nou. Zool. iii. p. 18 (1896 — New Guinea, type 



Mts. of British Papua). 

 (Cf. Nov. Zoiil. viii. p. 127.) 



(? ad., Vulcan Island, 5. xii. 1913. (No. 6306.) 



" Iris dark red ; bill light and dark horn-colour with red base ; feet purplish 

 red." 



8. Macropygia amboinensis meeki subsp. nov. 



cJad.: nearest to J/, a, ma/orensis ISalvad. from the island of Mafor in the 

 Geelvink Bay, but the upperside is darker, almost without the slightest rufous 

 admi.xture, like a dark sepia or clove-brown (Ridgway's nomenclature), not dark 

 chestnut browu, as in M. a. maforcnsis. The feathers of the breast are more 

 vinous ; the abdomen appears to be slightly less rusty yellow. The tail-feathers are 

 also less rnfous, being dark brown, almost exactly the same as the colour of the 

 back. Wings <? ad., 164-165, tail 190-194, cnlmen 21 mm. 



? . Top of head brown, with very little rusty spotting, feathers of hind-neck 

 with wide dark metallic-green or greenish purple tips and narrow buffy fringes, as 

 if powdered with buif at the utmost borders ; back dark brown, rump and upper 

 tail-coverts with ferruginous tips. Tail dark brown (clove-brown), outer rectrices 

 blackish at base, with an oblique black bar and a similar bright rnfous bar in the 

 middle, tip rufous, shaded with grey. Feathers of foreneck and chest sooty grey 

 with brownish buff fringes. 



cj. " Iris red with slaty blue inner circle ; bill black ; feet bright red." 



¥. "Bill dark brown ; feet ])urplish or brownish red." 



Type : c? ad., Vulcan Island, 28. xi. 1913. (No. 6308.) 



3 (?c? ad. (Nos. 6308, 6320, 6393) ; 1 c? fere ad. (No. 6317) ; 5 ? ¥ (Nos. 6275, 

 6295, 6297, 6303, 6356), Vulcan Island, November and December 1913. 



9. Myristicivora spilorrlioa (Gray). 



Anted, p. 28. 



2Si,\ ? ad., Vulcan Island, November and December 1913. (Nos. 6325, 

 6397, 6398.) 



10. Carpophaga pinon astrolabiensis Me3er. 



Antei, p. 28. 



2 c? c? ad., Vulcan Island, 3 and 21. xii. 1913. (Nos. 6344, 6472.) 

 Wing 286 mm. (one moulting). 



11. Carpophaga rhodinolaema Scl. 



Anted, p. 29. 



(J ad., Vulcan Island, 3. i. 1914. (No. 6505.) 



