4. PTiLOTis. 233 



11. Ptilotis polyg^amma. (Plate VI.) 



Ptilotis polygi-amma, Gray, P. Z. S. 1861, p. 429 ; Finsch, Neu-Gnin. 



p. 165 ; Gray, H(md4. !b. i. p. 156, no. 2035. 

 Xanthotis poikilostemus, Mei/er, Sitzb. Ak. Wiss. Wien, Ixx. p. 112 



(1874) ; Sclat. Ibis, 1874, p. 418. 

 Meliphaga poligi-amma, Giebel, Thes. Orn. ii. p. 559 (1875) ; Rosenb. 



Malay. Archip. p. .395. 

 Ptilotis pcecilosternus, Salvad. Ann. Mm. Civ. Gen. vii. p. 948 (1875). 

 Ptilotis, sp., (VAlbertis, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. x. p. 29 (1877). 

 Xanthotis polygramma, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. xii. p. .338 



(1878) ; d'Albertis e Salvad. op. cit. xiv. p. 80, xvi. p. 78 ; Sharpe, 



Journ. Linn. Soc. xvi. 1882, p. 441. 

 Xanthotis ? polygramma, Salvad. Orn. Papuasia etc. ii. p. 34-3. 



Achdt. All the feathers of the upper parts blackish brown, 

 broadly edged with rich olive-green and narrowly tipped with whitish, 

 especially on the mantle, wing-coverts, and occiput ; feathers of 

 crown without any lighter tips ; rump and lower back very fluffy and 

 greyish olive ; wings and tail brown, strongly washed with olive- 

 yellow ; ocular region bare ; ear-coverts silky whitish grey ; feathers 

 behind the ear bright yellow ; a small blackish patch on the lower 

 and upper corners of the ear-coverts ; cheeks and throat grevish 

 white ; rest of underparts of the body white and slightly washed 

 with greenish yellow, each feather with a large subterminal trian- 

 gular mark of blackish brown ; the feathers of the chest with longi- 

 tudinal streaks of that colour ; axillaries and most of the under 

 wing-coverts white ; rest of under wing-coverts and inner margin 

 of quills pale fulvous ; " bill and iris black ; feet ashy " (Salvadori). 

 C'ulmen O-S-0-9 inch, wing 3-0-3-15, tail 2-5, tarsus'^0-85-0-9. 



Young birds have the wing-coverts and some of the tail-feathers 

 narrowly tipped with fulvous. 



Hab. New Guinea, Salwati, Waigiou, and Mysol. 



a, b, c. S ad. sk. Mysol. A. E. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



(Types of species.) 



d. cS ad. sk. Waigiou. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C], 



e. (S ad. sk. New Guinea. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.J. 

 /, ff. Ad. sk. Astrolabe Mountains. Mr. A. Goldie [C.J. 



12. Ptilotis reticulata. 



Meliphaga reticulata, Tenwi. PI. Col. iv. pi. 29. fig. 2 (1824) ; Miill. 



Verh. Nat. Gesch. Land- en Volkenk. p. 102 (18-39-44) ; Gray, Gen. 



B. i. p. 122 ; id. Hand-l. B. i. p. 157, no. 2037. 

 PtHotis reticulata, Bp. C. A. i. p. 392 (1850) ; Wall. P. Z. S. 1863, 



p. 486; Finsch, Neu-Guin. p. 165. 



Adidt. Upper parts greyish olive-brown ; wings and tail brown, 

 externally strongly washed with olive-yellow ; ocular region dull 

 l)rown : ear-coverts dark brown, with whitish shaft-streaks ; feathers 

 behind the car bright yellow, forming a large oval patch ; cheeks and 



