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CoUuricincla megarhyncha (Quoy & Gaim.). 

 S. Mailu, July 'M)i\\, 189.5. "Iris dc-rp brown, bill and feet dark grey." 

 Wing 92 mm. 



Melanocharis bicolor Kams. 

 ? . Mailu. " Iris grey, feet and beak brown." Wing 67 mm. 



Pachycephala schlegeli obscurior Ilartert subsp. nov. 

 The south-eastern representative form of the Pachycephala schlegeli typica from 

 the Arfak region of New Guinea, of which two males are at hand for comparison 

 with fifteen males from Ai'fak, difiers only from the latter in having the abdomen 

 of a deeper tawny orange, which colour seems also to be extended farther on towards 

 the sides, in haviug a larger black chin-spot, and the white of the throat less in 

 extent. We have it from the Eafa district from heights of oUOO to 6000 feet, and 

 from the Victoria district Mr. de Vis has had siiecimens from 6000 to 8000 feet. 

 Wing. 85 mm. E. H. 



Myzomela rosenbergi Schleg. 

 Two from the Eafa district, not distinguishable from a large series from Arfak 

 in the Triug Museum. K. H. 



Ptilotis visi Hartert sp. nov. 



Ptilotis, speeiei P. chrysotis dictae similis, sed corpore sui)ra et alis rufescen- 

 tioribus, guiture pallidiove, regione supra-auriculari pallidiore facile distinguenda. 



Hub. Nova Guinea meridionali. 



This species has been mixed up with P. Jiligera Gould, from North Que'ensland, 

 by Salvadori, Gadow (cf. Omit. Papaasla II. p. 345; Cat. B. Brit. Mus. IX. p. 237), 

 and others, but it is not typical P. filigera from Queensland (Cape York), from 

 which it dififers in being much darker above and below, the top of the head not being 

 grey but greenish oli\e, the breast being washed with greenish olive, the white mark 

 above the ear-coverts indistinct, if visible at all, the whitish grey spots on the nape 

 smaller and sometimes quite absent. In fact Ptilotis visi is nearer to P. chrysotis 

 of North-Westeru New Guinea, from which it difiers in the quite different colour of 

 the upper parts, which are strongly washed with rusty rufous, the paler chin and 

 throat, the jjaler ear-coverts, the paler Hue above the ear-coverts (which is almost 

 black in P. chrysotis), and generally in the presence of some greyish spots on the 

 nape. The breast is also less greenish (though distinctly so), the wings more rufous 

 outside and with much broader inner rufous margins. The type of P. visi is from 

 the Mailu district, from where the Tring :Museam has four beautiful skins; but we 

 have also specimens q, u, v, r, x of Salvadori's list (I.e. p. 346), wliich I consider to 

 belong to this species, as well as two skins fi'om the Fly River which seem to belong 

 to the same form, although the white mark above the ear-coverts is rather distinct 

 and the region above it ratlier dark. They may be subspecilically distinct, but. more 

 material is required from that place to decide that question. We have also two 

 skins from A\'okan, Aru Islands, which are not P. visi, but nearer to P. filigera. 

 They are, however, skinned after having been preserved in spirits of wine (see 

 Salvadori, I.e. \>. 346), and therefore not much weight can be attached to their 



