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110. Goura victoria victoria Fras. 



Jobi and Scliouten Islands in Gc'elvink Baj', and perhaps coasts of Geelvink 

 Bay. 



We have before ns seven skins : 



1 albinistic variety, withont locality. 



1 l)onght at Waropen by William Doherty. 



1 Biak (W. Doherty coll.). 



1 Serni, Jobi, bonght by AV. A. Doherty. 



2 ( c? ? ) Jobi (Gnillemard coll.). 

 1 (J Ansus, Jobi (Powell coll.). 



117. Goura victoria beccarii Salvad. 



This subspecies only differs from typical G. victoria in its larger size and paler, 

 more blue-grey colour of tlie upper-surface. The white tips to tlie crest-feathers are 

 also generally wider. 



We have iive specimens : — 



1 f?) Humboldt Bay (purchased from a dealer). 



2 Konstantinhafen (Kubary coll.). 

 2 Stephansort (Kubary coll.). 



Ib^. Goura victoria huonensis A. B. Meyer. 



Dr. A. B. Meyer has, under the nnme of Goura hoccurii huonensis, separated 

 a third form of the rictorin group,* which he describes as differing from beccarii by 

 its larger size and more bluish'colonr above. This would then be a further development 

 in the same direction in which heccarii differs from victoria. We have, un- 

 fortunately, no specimens from Huon Gulf or from farther south-east. The 

 statement of the larger size of huonensis is not borne out by the author's measure- 

 ments ; in fact, we have a specimen of still greater measurements. 



The colour-difi'erences mentioned by Dr. Meyer are unimportant, as oar 

 specimens vary somewhat inter se, but quite what one might expect from the Huon 

 Gulf district, where many forms differ from those found on the nortliern coast from 

 Humboldt Bay to Astrolabe Bay. 



IV. MEGAPODIIDAE. 

 1. Megapodius duperreyi duperreyi Less. & Garn. 



Mr. Ogilvie-Grant, in Vol. XXII. of Cat. D. Brit. Mas., has enumerated seven 

 species wliicli come within our area. He unites Megapodius affinis Meyer with 

 M.forsteni. From the examination of our material we have come to the conclusion 

 that there are two species and a number of subspecies in the Papuan subregion, and 

 that ajjinis is separable as a subspecies. The typical duperreyi has a very wide area. 

 It was originally described from Dorey, and ranges from the Lesser Suiida Islands 

 to the Torres Straits. Mr. Ogilvie-Graut unites with it the M. tamtdus from North 

 Australia, couteuding that, although the majority of duperreyi were widely different 

 from typical tumulus, every intermediate colouration was foniul. We concur in tliis 



* Orn. Mimatxbcr. 1S!)3, p. G5. 



