NOVTTATES ZOOLOBICAE XXV. 1918. 319 



and the bill appears to be, as a rule, from one-half to one mm. longer. They differ 

 from the form inhabiting Fergusson Island (D'Entrecasteaux group) in being a 

 little larger, above darker, browner, without a greenish tinge, the brownish 

 tinge on the underside duller, paler. 



The upperside of G. ?«. tagukam is sombre brown, brighter, and with a 

 yellowish rusty tinge on the upper tail-coverts. The wings are blackish brown 

 with olivaceous bro\vn outer and pale, often whitish, brown inner edges. Tail 

 olivaceous brown with a wide black ante-apical bar and a black tinge towards 

 the base of the inner A\ebs : fresh sldns have also a small light spot on the inner 

 web, immediately behind the black bar. The throat is wliite, rest of under-sur- 

 face buff, brightest on breast and belly and mider tail-coverts, middle of under- 

 side nearly white. " Bill black, iris dark red, brownish red, Ught brown, greyish 

 brown (!). Feet slate-blue " (Eichhorn Bros.). Some, probably more juvenile, 

 specimens have the underside, including the greater part of the throat, buff. 

 Wing 55-57, in one of the birds marked $ only 54 mm. Tail 40'5-42 mm. 



Habitat. Sudest Island, Louisiade group. Type : (J ad. Mt. Riu or Rattle- 

 snake, Sudest, 20. iv. 1916. Eichhorn Bros. leg. No. 7565 of the A. S. Meek 

 collections. 



We make use of this opportunity to name another subspecies, that from 

 Fergusson Island. It is very closely allied to G. magnirostris magnirostris of 

 AustraKa, but the upperside is richer, the underside much more buff. Wings 

 52-55 mm. We call this form — 



Gerygone magnirostris proxima subsp. nov. 



Type : o Fergusson Island, 3. i. 1895, A. S. Meek coll. No. I. Eight skins 

 compared. 



Ptilotis analoga vicina Rothsch. & Hart. 



Ptilotis analoga vicina Rothschild & Hartert, Nov. Zool. 1912. p. 203 (Sudest Island). 



Some fresh specimens confirm the differences stated by us. 



There are, however, two misprints or slips in our former notes. In Novi- 

 TATES ZooLOGiCAE, 1898, p. 527, under Ptilotis notala. No. (2), the sentence 

 should read : 



" The yellow line below the eyes, which is distinct, yellow, broader, and 

 almost running into the auricular patch in those from Fergusson Island, is 

 narrower, less distinct, very pale yellowish, and quite separated from the yellow 

 auricular patch in the birds from Sudest." 



In NoviTATEs ZooLOGiCAE, I9I2, p. 203, Under P. analoga analoga, the 

 middle sentence about the " Cape York form " is not quite correct. There are 

 undoubtedly two forms at Cape York, a smaller one, gracilis, and a larger one, 

 notata — evidently two species — and our comparison must have been made wth 

 specimens of gracilis, as the bill in notata is not smaller, but larger. 



Philemon novaeguineae tagulanus subsp. nov. 



Our former collection contained no specimens of a Philemon, but in this 

 last collection were three very fine examples, all sexed as males. 



They are nearest to Ph. novaeguineae brevipennis R. & H. (cf. Novttates 

 ZOOLOGICAE, 1913, p. 513) from the lower ranges of the Snow Mountains in 



