1. MTZOMELA. 1-il 



body brilliant carmine-red ; crown and sides of head, wings, wing- 

 coverts, and tail dark brown, but very strongly washed with the 

 carmine of the back ; under wing-coverts pale brown ; inner margin 

 of quills greyish ; bill and feet black. 



Young birds and jjerhaps also the female are of a brownish ground- 

 colour, but everywhere strongly washed with dull carmine. 



Adult S • Culmen U-62 inch, wing 2-4, tail 1"75, tarsus O-oO. 



Young or female (?). Wing 2*2 inches, tail 1-0, tarsus 0-55. 



Hub. New Guinea, New Ireland, and New Britain. 



a. [ $ ] ad. sk. New Britain (Sept. 1878j. Rev. G. Brown [C.]. 



b,c. [ d' $ ad.] New Britain. Mr. Kleinschmidt [C.]. 



22. Myzomela wakoloensis. 

 Myzomela wakoloensis, H. 0. Forbes, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 116. 



Adult male. Entirely scarlet, the bases of the feathers being 

 black ; the wings, the tail, and the prteocular spot are black : the 

 upper wing-coverts are black, with a scarlet band on the outer webs 

 nearly in the middle, but not extending to the extremity of the 

 feather ; the inner margins of the remiges are white ; the irides are 

 rich brown ; the edges of the mandible yellow ; tongue yellow ; feet 

 yellowish green ; soles yellow. (B. 0. Forbes.) 



Hab. Lake Wokolo, island of Bourou. 



a, b. ^ 2 fid. ; c. (S Lake Wakolo, Bourou, H. 0. Forbes, Esq. [P.], 

 imm. sk. (Types of species.) 



23. Myzomela sclateri. 



Myzomela sclateri, Forbes, P. Z. I'S. 1879, p. 265, pi. xxv. fig. 2 ; Sclai. 

 op. cit. p. 448 ; Peichen. 4' Schalotc, J. f. O. 1880, p. 198 ; Salmd, 

 Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. xvi. p. 72 (1880) ; id. Orn. Papuasia, li. p. 298 ; 

 Gould, B. Neio Guinea, pt. xii. 



Adult male. All the upper parts and sides of the head uniform 

 sooty olive-brown ; wing-coverts and remiges externally edged with 

 dull olive-yellow ; chin, throat, and the whole fore neck brilliant 

 carmine ; rest of imderparts of the body dull whitish ycUow, strongly 

 washed with dull grey on the chest and sides of breast ; under wing- 

 coverts and inner margin of quills pure white. 



Ftmcde. Eesemblcs the male, but without the carmine on the fore 

 neck, only the upper throat being slightly washed with dull carmine. 



S . Culmen 0-65 inch, wing 2-55, tail l*7o, tarsus O-OS. 



?. » 0-6 „ „ 2-35, „ 1-6, „ 0-65, 



Ifab. New Britain. 



«. (^ ad. sk. Palakuru Island, off' New Rev. G. Brown [C.]. 



Britain. (Type of species.) 



b, c. cJ $ ad. sk. Palakm-u Island. Rev. G. Brown [C.]. 



24. Myzomela eques. 



GinnjTis eques, Less. Voij. Cu(j. p, 679, pi. 31. fig. I (_1820) ; id. Man. 

 d'Orn, ii. p. 45. 



