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69. Ptilopus superbus (Temm.). 

 Kiriwina, Trohriaiids. " Iris yellow." 



70. Ptilopus lewisi vicinus Hartert. 

 See Nov. Zool. II. pp. 02, (13, where I described this subspecies from Fergussoii 

 Island. In a later collection we received it also from Kiriwina, Trobriands. 



E. H. 



71. Macropygia doreya cinereiceps Tristr. 

 1 cj and 2 ? from Fergusson Island are termed as above with some hesitation. 

 The females seem not to differ from the females of the allied forms, but the male 

 is less distinctly barred on the breast than two mules of M. doreya from Hatam, 

 Arfak, and there is a little more grey on the crown and nape; but we have a male, 

 evidently quite adult, from Ansus, May 6th, 1875, which has on its label, in Salvadori's 

 handwriting, " h. Macropyrjia doreya var. griseinucha Salvad. Typus. Bruijn." 

 This bird does not differ from our Fergusson Ttude except in a slightly more purplish 

 hind-neck, a character which is changeable individually, and in having the breast 

 slightly more distinctly barred, but nobody would think of describing this slight 

 difference if they came from the same locality. This Ansus specimen is evidently 

 specimen x. of Salvadori's list in Orn. Papuasia III. p. 155, where it is said that 

 it belongs to M. doreya, not to J/, griseinucha, which is said to be coniined to 

 Miosnom, though this " typus " is from Ansus ! If this Ansus bird is true M. doreya, 

 then my Trobriand bird is certainly scarcely even a subspecies of it. I strongly 

 suspect that M. ciiwreicepjs, M. griseinucha, and probably also M. goldiei will have to 

 be classified as subspecies under M. dweya, if that. E. H. 



72. Chalcophaps stephani Rchb. 

 Fergusson Island. See Nov. Zuui.. II. p. (14. 



7o. Chalcophaps chrysochlora Gould. 



Fergusson and Kiriwina, Trobriands. " Iris hazel." March l(.)th and .\pril 18th, 

 nests with two eggs each. In one clutch one egg is much more yellowish and 

 measures 28'u : 20'5 mm., while the other, whiter one, measures 29-3 : 21 '0. 



E. H. 



74. Porphyrio melanoptenis I'p. 

 Kiriwina, Trobriands, and Woodlark Island. " Iris red, hazel in young liirds." 

 Sharpe, Cat. B. XXIIl. p. 203, calls this species Porp/h. snumujdiaim Tenun., 

 but this is, in my opinion, wrong. Temm., Fl. Col.m, figures a bird with the 

 thighs of a lighter blue than the abdomen, while in the species under discussion they 

 are of a deeper colour. Temminck's bird has a deep bluish green back, and he 

 describes it as having " le dos, les ailes et la queue, d'uu bleu noiratre a legcre nuance 

 verdatre," but our bird has a black back. Moreover Temminck states that his species 

 has been diagnosed by Horsfield imder the name of i'. indicus, and that it inhabits 

 the lakes of the islands of Java and Banda. Now our bird does not live in .lava, nor 

 is it, as far as I can make out, recorded with certainty from Banda. It is said by 

 Sharpe to live "throughout the .Moluccas," and though this is probable, there are 

 manv of those islands where it has not yet been found. Therefore the name 



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