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4 c?(?,:3 ? ?, Wetter, September, October, 19i)2. (Nos. Sfito, SiiTl, r.lirii— 

 5675, 5843). " Iris brownish white (pale ochreous, whitish ochreous), feet bh\ckish, 

 bill bliick." 



All onr specimens are alike. They aj^ree with Dr. Finsch's description and 

 have a yellow wash on the sides of the abdomen, though they are fully adult. 



92. Gerygone kisserensis kisserensis Finsch. 



Geri/ijom l-isnercnsis Finsch, Nales Leijdni Mus. xx. p. 133 (18118 : Kisser) ; iJ., up. r!l. xxii. p. 253, 

 Taf. iv. fig. 1, figura mala. 



4 (?(?, 4 ¥ ¥, Kisser, April— June 1901. (Nos. 3840, 385G, 3040, 4069, 4070, 

 4072, 4112, 4113.) 



11 c?c?, 8 ¥ ?, Moa, November, December 1902. (Nos. 6108—6110, 0168— 

 6176, 6264 ; the rest without numbers.) 



4 c? cJ, 4 ¥ ¥ , Letti, November, December 1902. (Nos. 6016—6020, 6o34, 6(t35.) 



" Iris bright crimson (reddish white, scarlet, burnt-sienna red with whitish 

 outer ring), feet black (greyish black), bill black, base of lower mandible greyish." 



Adult birds are white underneath, the sides widely rust-brown, young birds 

 are lemon-yellow underneath. I canuot separate those from Kisser, Moa and Letti. 



93. Gerygone kisserensis sequens subspec. nov. 

 Very close to G. k. kisserensis, but above more richly coloured, the back and 

 wing-coverts more tinged with cinnamon-rnfons, the crown of a deeper tint. The 

 young are also yellow underneath. 



Mr. Kiihn sent a large series from Roma. 



6, Roma, 15. viii. 1902. (No. 5299a.) (Type of G. k. sequens.) 

 9 c? ad., 13 ¥ ad., 8 ad. with sex not stated, 6 juv., Roma, July, August 

 1902. (Nos. 5039—5042, 5152—5154, 5226—5228, 5296—5300, .5337, 5395—5397 ; 

 seventeen without numbers.) 



" Iris burnt-sienna red (reddish grey, i)ale crimson), bill and feet blackish." 

 The nomenclature adopted here is not final, but only chosen to make evident 

 the close relationship of these forms. As we have no collection from Babber we 

 cannot say much about the form occurring there. Dr. A. B. Meyer (Tsis 1884, 

 jip. 7, 27) described from a single skin from Babber a Ger>/gone J'ulrescens, which 

 he compared with dorsalis; while Dr. Finsch {-Xotes Leyden Mus. x.xii. p. 254) 

 identified three spirit specimens from Babber with Gert/gone /;«/»«' (Hartert, A''or. 

 Xool. 19i)i), p. 15, Dammer), saying that Meyer's description oi fuhescens cannot 

 refer to his examples. It can hardly be said that these close and difficult forms 

 can with absolute certainty be named from a few sjjirit specimens, and even a 

 single skin will hardly settle the question finally, but I think it is quite possible 

 that the same form occurs on Dammer and Babber, and that Meyer's fulcesccns 

 is the same as my kiihni. The diagnosis of Meyer is certainly very short and 

 insufficient, but it does not exactly contradict that of kiihni. All these forms 

 are apparently subspecies, and should probably all be termed as G. dorsalis with 

 an added third name. 



94. Rliipidura mfiventris pallidiceps subsi)ec. nov. 

 Differs at a glance from Rh. rufitentris ruficentris of Timor by the slaty-brown, 

 not black, pileum, and generally more brownish, less ashy n])per surface. The 

 pileum and sides of the head are almost pure black in the Timor form, in marked 



