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Psittacella brehmi pallida Clever. 

 A. B. :Me_ver in Zeitschr. f. i/es. Ornitli. 111. p. 3 (1880) described as a new 

 sjiecies from some females from British New Guinea PsHtncdla pallida, because it 

 (iift'ered from females of P. brehmi from Dutch New Guinea in being paler and 

 washed with greyish on the throat and sides of the head, and in having a shorter 

 tail. Salvador! aftemards (ef. Gat. B. Brit. Mus. XX. p. 499, 1891) declared 

 that he had not been able to detect any difference between the supposed two species. 

 We have now received three maks from tlie Eafa district, and, comparing them with 

 three malen and four females from Arfak, I find that they differ from the latter in 

 liaving the throat and sides of the head paler and with a slight greyish wash, and in 

 being more \ellowisli green on the breast and abdomen, while the 7iorth-westeni 

 Inrds are more grass-green. These characters are quite noticeable in the specimens 

 before me, but as they are not quite constant they can hardly be considered to justify 

 a specific separation, but they seem constant enough for a subspecijic distinction. 

 I may add that there is no great difference in the lengtli of the tail or in size, 

 thougli P. h. jjalllda is a little smaller as a rule, l^e W^ {Rep<n-l, 1894) mentions 

 some doubtful specimens which seem to belong to a third form, to judge from his 

 remarks. E. H. 



Charmosyna stellae .Meyer. 

 Males and females from the Eafa district and Mount ^■ictoria. 



Accipiter cirrhocephalus (VieilL). 

 An evidently perfectly adult 'male, with the wing 185 mm. long, fi'om .Mailu. 



Falco severus Horsf. 



A fine skin from Mount Mctoria. Some of the old feathers on the underside 

 are paler, and have longitudinal black spots, which are proljably tlie remainder of the 

 immature plumage. The rectrices have a narrow rufous terminal border. E. H. 



Falco ernesti Sharpe. 



A beautiful male (though marked fenutle on the label by mistake) from the 

 Eafa district, October 1895. " Iris brown, feet and cere yellow." 

 The Tring ISIuseum has also a, female from .\rfak. 



Reinwardtoenas reinwardti gi-iseotincta Hartert subsp. no\-. 



Comparing specimens of Reinwa/rdtoenus reinwardti from S.E. New Guinea, 

 Kaiser-NVillielnisland, Arfak, Waigiu, and the Moluccas, I find that the .Moluccan 

 birds are much more white on head, neck, and breast, and have more dark feathers on 

 the wing-coverts, besides being a trifle smaller as a rule ; wliile the birds from New 

 Guinea have the head, neck, and breast of a much darker grey, more rufous on the 

 wing-coverts, and are jierhaps a little larger. Waigiu specimens stand somewhat 

 between Moluccan and Papuan specimens in the darkness of the neck and breast, 

 but belong rather to the latter. Of the New Guinea specimens it may be said that 

 tho.se from Arfak seem to be a little lighter tiian those from the Eastern and Southern 

 parts of the island, where they are of the darkest grey. In any case, however, the 



