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For a long time, from 1871 to 1894, no specimen of Aniblyomis inwnata with 

 a crest was known, though Bruijn's hunters, D'Albertis, and others had brought many 

 females and males out of the Arfak region. In 1884 Sharpe described the totally 

 distinct A. snixdaris, also from a female (or young male), without any sign of a 

 crest, but soon afterwards I-'insch & Jleyer made us acquainted with the beautifully 

 crested moie. In 1890 the names of jl. vnacgregwiae &i\A A. miisgravianv^ were 

 given to crested males from the mountains of British New Guinea, but no specimens 

 of that form reached Europe until this year. As late as 1894 a crested male of 

 A. inornata was first made known by Meyer, and I have since acquired seven. Quite 

 lately came, among some birds sent for sale to London from the Victoria district, 

 two mal«8 which fully agreed with the description of ^4. macijregai'iae (that of 

 .4. musgrnvianus being very incomiilete and in general terms). Tliev wore very much 

 like the Arfak birds, but the crest decidedly shorter, and the whole bird rather small. 

 Comparing my specimen (the other is in the British Museum) with the series of 

 A. inornata from Dutch New Guinea, I soon anticipated that they would probably 

 be not more than subspecies. I was, therefore, not a little surprised when in the 

 last collection from the Eafa district I found a beautiful male, with a crest fully 

 as long as any of those from Arfak, and not different in size! I now give the 

 measurements of the crested nudes at present in my collection in niillimfetres : — 



On the upperside is no remarkable difference in colour between any of these, but beneath 

 Nos. 1, 2, 4, 5, fi are somewhat more rufous, and No. 7 is exactly between these and the paler 

 ones, which are Nos. 3, 8, 9. 



One more reason not to attach great importance to the length of crest in 

 this Amhlywnis is that it is not constant in A. snbalnris. 



Crestless si^ecimens from Arfak (Bruijn coll.) have mostly shorter wings, and 

 these are apparently /ema/ee, while some, evidently young 'nudes, have the wings as 



