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Gninea. Mr. Dohpi'h' has now sent ns a male and ^female from Ta.kar, on the 

 north coast of New Gninea, nnder 130' long., i.e. not far from Kafn. This form, 

 as Dr. Meyer truly said, differ.s considerably from M. chalyhatd, bnt 1 find that it 

 closely resembles M. jobiensis \ in fact it only differs from the latter in a slightly 

 greener gloss all over and in having shorter wings. I therefore tliink full justice 

 is done to it if it is treated as a subspecies of >1/. yoi^/t'/(.sv'«. In several instances 

 birds from Jobi Island have near allies or reoccur on the northern coast of New 

 Gninea (cf Gcojjfroyus, Philemon, and others). The idea, once started by Dr. 

 Gnillemard, that M. chahjhutu is not specifically different from M. afra is absurd, 

 and has been opiwsed by Salvador! and others, and now generally abandoned. 



Sharpe has created the generic name Eucorax for Manucodia comrii. As the 

 structure of the feathers which is peculiar to M. comrii is for the most part only 

 well developed in adult males, I do not recognise it, besides thinking that, if such 

 slight structural characters of plnmnge are taken as generic differences, also ^[. afra 

 and M. chah/lxda might be sejiarated genericallyl I have, on the other hand, 

 recognised Phonygammuis, as this name has been spelt by its author, as a genns, 

 because all species in both se.xes show exactly the same structural differences from 

 all species of Manucodia. 



2. On some Genera not recognised by me. 



I have not, again, allowed generic rank to Puradisorim, Uranornix, Triclw- 

 paradisea, Asfrarchia, Drepananax, Craspedophora, Rhipidornis, as the su)i]iosed 

 generic characters of these so-called genera are all based on secondary miile 

 characters, while i\\Q females show no structural differences of any importance, ami 

 in some cases their specific differences are difficult enough to make on(. 



Dr. Sharpe told me he intended to separate geuerically my .UV/v/y//^ .>y//,7((//- 

 dis.vma. For the same reasons as above I cannot agree with him, for, apart from 

 an indication of the white base to the central rectrices so conspicuous in the male 

 and its smaller size, it is practically identical with the female of ,1. nigra. On 

 the other hand. Dr. Sharpe must be praised for separating the two species into 

 genera, as it proves him to be consistent, which few other zoologists seem to be, 

 in his views on the importance of secondary sexual characters as foundations 

 for genera. 



3. Falcinellus striatus (Rodd.). 



Being an advocate of the strictest priority, I have been obliged to adopt this 

 name for what is usually called Epimackus speciosus. The generic name Falcinellus 

 Vieillot has only been rejected on the erroneous impression that Falcinellus was 

 preoccupied as a generic term for the Glossy Ibis by Bechstein, but this is clearly 

 not the case, as that author never used the generic term Falcinellus, bnt always 

 called the Ibis " Tantalus Falcinellus'' The specific name striatus must be 

 adopted, as, although Boddaert gave it to the female, and named the male speciosa 

 on the same page, striata comes first, and I (luite agree with the Deutsche Zool. 

 <4es. that the name first mentioned in any book must stand, irrespective of any 

 other iiuestious. 



