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8. Amblyoruis subalaris ^harpe. 

 In moult. " Eye brown, lilack ball." 



9. Pomareopsis bruijni (Salvad.). 



We have now also received feiiinJes of this rare bird, while formerly we had onlv 

 males. 



Antea, p. 14, I omitted to give my reasons for adopting the generic name 

 Pomareopsis. It was done because I was not convinced that this bird is a true 

 GralUna. The tarsus, which is very strongly scutellated in the Australian Orallina, 

 is covered by one lamina, only showing some more or less indistinct divhsions at the 

 lower end. The wing is distinctly more pointed in Orallina. The feathering on 

 the rump is fuller and richer in Pomareopsis. The sexes differ remarkably in the 

 colour of the under parts. E. H. 



10. Peltops blainvillei (Less. & Garn.). 

 A 0.VC from Oriori. Mr. de ^'is, in a " lieport on Ornithological Collections " 

 written in June 1894 (date of publication not exactly known to me), "proposes" to 

 separate some birds he received from British New Guinea as P. minor. Salvadori, in 

 an article in the Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, Vol. XVL, of which he most kindly sent 

 separate copies to his friends, says that he thinks specimens from S.E. New Guinea 

 cannot be separated. The question is, whether De Vis' specimens belong to the same 

 form as those of Salvadori ? In reading De "\'is' remarks it seems to me that he had 

 immature birds, which he tried to separate from old ones, but that he did not comjiare 

 birds from S.E. New Guinea with those from other jmrts of New Guinea. A curious 

 fact is that De Vis says his birds are smaller than usual, while Salvadori's were larger ! 

 In fact our birds (we have several more from S.E. New Guinea) ai-e also averaging a 

 little larger than those from Dutch New Guinea, but some of the latter are just as 

 large. De A'is' measurement of the wings is 92 mm., while our above-named old 

 S.E. New Guinea specimens have the wing in the male 112, in the female 107 mm. 

 The iris Anthony describes as " rose-colour " ; bill and feet black. De Vis speaks of 

 the " crimson of the back " being " more or less mixed with black-centred, white-edged 

 feathers " ; but the back in P. hlainviUei is never crimson, but lilack, the rump and 

 upper tail-coverts only being red above. Probably De Vis' expression was incorrect, 

 for if his birds really had crimson hacl's he would have emphasised that fact, I should 

 say. E. 11. 



11. Microeca flavovirescens Gray. 

 Oriori. In no way distinguishable from one collected by Guillemard in .lobi 

 Island. E. H. 



12. Poecilodiyas albifacies Sharpe. 

 Oriori. ? . " Iris dark grey ; feet bright yellow." De Vis' Monachdla viridis is 

 undoubtedly tliis species. E H. 



13. Monarcha periophthalmicus Sharpe. 

 Oriori. The young bird, as already mentioned by Meyer, Zeilsclir. f. ges. Oni. 

 III. p. 15, has the occipmt and nape longitudinally spotted with Mack. I'". II. 



