174 NOVITATES ZOOLOOICAE XXVT. 1919. 



306. Myzomela obsciira meeki Rothsch. & Hart. = Myzomela obscura meeki. 

 Myzomela obscura meeki Rothschild & Hartert, Nov. Zool. 1907. p. 479 (Upper Aroa River). 



Type: ? ad., Upper Aroa River, British New Guinea, 6.ii. 1905.' A. S. 

 Meek leg. No. B. 208. 



(Mr. Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis, Suppl. II. 1915, pp. 51, 52, united the forms from 

 the Aru Islands and from British New Guinea with 31. obscura obscura, but he 

 forgot to mention our meeki. The Aru specimens are darker, the ones from 

 the Aroa River smaller than M. obscura obscura. The birds from Outanata are 

 probably like the Aiu ones, but we have seen no specimens from there, nor 

 did we receive any from the Mimika River.) 



307. Myzomela albigula Hart. = Myzoinela albigulu albigula. 

 Myzomela cUbigula Hartert, Bull. B.O. Club, viii. p. sx. (1898 — Roasel Island). 



Type : <? ad., Rossel I., Louisiade group, 27. i. 1898. A. S. Meek Coll. No. 

 1306. " 



308. Myzomela pallidior Hart. = Myzomela albigida pallidior. 



Myzomela pallidior Hartert, Bull. B.O. Club, viii. p. xsi. (1898 — St. Aignan Island). 



Type : cj ad., St. Aignan, Louisiade group, 31. vii. 1897. A. S. Meek coll. 

 No. 725. 



In NoviTATES ZoOLOGiCAE 1907, p. 480, I suggested that even albigula and 

 pallidior might be subspecies of M. obscura, but the striped character of their 

 undersides seems to me now so peculiar that it appears to be more natural 

 to accept another species on the Louisiade Islands, which will then stand as 

 Myzomela albigula albigulu and M. albigula pallidior. Cf. also Novitates. 

 ZOOLOGICAE, 1899, pp. 79, 210. 



309. Myzomela nigrita louisiadensis Hart. = Myzomela nigrita louisiadensis. 



Myzomela nigrita louisiadensis Hartert, Nov. Zool. v. p. 527 (1898— Sudest Island). 



Type : o ad., Sudest Island, Louisiade group, 8.iv. 1898. A. S. Meek CoU. 

 No. 1690. 



310. Myzomela batjanensis Hart. = Myzomela sanguinolenta batjancnsis. 

 Myzomela batjanensis Hart«rt, Nov. Zool, 1903. p. 56 (Batjan), 



Type: cj ad., Batjan, vi. 1902. John Waterstadt leg. No. B. 579. 



311. Myzomela kuehni Rothsch. = Myzomela kuehni. 

 Myzomela kuehni Rothschild, Bull. B.O. Club, xiii. p. 42 (1903 — Wetter). 



Type: <? ad.. Wetter Island, 5.x. 1902. Heinrich Kiihn leg. No. 5693. 



312. Anthi'eptes meeki Hart. = Oedistoma pygmaeum meeki. 



Anthreples meeki Hart«rt, Nov. Zool. 1896. p. 239 (Fergusson Island). 



Type: S ad., Fergusson Island, D'Entrecasteaux group, 6.x. 1894. A. S. 

 Meek leg. 1^ 



