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It may, with a very large material, be possible to subdivide siibplacens again, 

 as it seems as if iiidividnals from the higher mountains are finer, having larger bills 

 and a larger blue auricular patch, and that the Woodlark birds have slightl}' smaller 

 bills than those from British and German New Guinea, and the auricular patch 

 generally paler and more lilac ; but at present we could not speak with certainty 

 about the constancy of any of these features. 



33. Charmosynopsis pulchella (Gray). 

 Besides a series of 13 skins from the Beran Peninsula, we have : 



One male (not sexed), collected by H. 0. Forbes at Moroka, 5000 ft., in 

 November 1885. 



One male (not sexed) from Moroka, 3000 to 6000 ft. (Anthony coll.). 



One female (not sexed), Mt. Gaivara, British New Guinea, 2000 to 9000 ft., 

 1898 (collector unknown). 



One male (not sexed), Eafa District (Anthony coll.). 



34. Charmosyna stellae A. B. Meyer. 

 We have before us : 



Seven adults and one immature bird from Mt. Cameron, Owen Stanley Range, 

 5000 and 6500 ft. (Anthony coll.). " Jris yellow, feet orange, bill red." 



Om/emale, Mt. Gaivara, 2000 to 9000 ft. (native collector). 



Four from between Mts. Alexander and Bellamy, about 5000 to 6000 ft., 

 October 1895 (Authony coll.). 



One ? ad., Owen Stanley Range, about 7000 ft. (Hunsteiu coll.). 



Two without definite locality (H. 0. Forbes coll.). 



Two without definite locality (collector unknown). 



Two immature birds from the Upper Aroa River, 3000 to 7000 ft. (Emil 

 Weiske coll.). 



Oae/emale, with no locality, labelled by A. Boucard (according to handwriting) 

 as being brought home by Mons. Laglaize ; looks exactly like a female of stellae, 

 but is smaller (wing only 132 mm.), as ojiposed to 142 to 145 mm. in ? stellae. 



Mivart figures the female of josejj/iinae with a green tail. Our specimen, 

 however, is a little larger than our two 7n,ales otjosepkinae. 



If this bird is josephinae, it would go to prove that the latter form is only 

 a subspecies of stellae. 



35. Oreopsittacus grandis Grant. 



We have now before ns eight specimens of this large form of Oreopsittacus 

 from the following places : 



Mt. Scratchley, Moroka District, Mt. Knntsford, (11,000 ft., Anthony coll.), 

 Mt. Owen Stanley, 5000 to 7000 ft. 



The Genus CYCLOPSITTA. 



36. Cyclopsitta edwardsi Oust. 



We have before ns a large series from Konstantinhafen (Knbary), Simbang 

 (Cotton and Webster, Nyman), and Stephausort (Nymau), in Kaiser Wilhelm's 

 Land. The iris is red in both sexes. The adult male has the breast red, i\K female 

 and young male green. The very young bird has the cheeks covered with shorter 



