19. MELIERHOPHErEa. 



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by feathers or bristles. Sides of head bare ; long wattle extending 

 backwards from the cheek. 



(For the other characters rf. the description of the species.) 



Ranr/e. New Guinea. 



Head of Mdirrhophetes leucostephes. 



1. Melirrhoplietes leucostephes. 



Melirrhophetes leucostephes, Meyer, Sitzher. Ak. Wiss. Wien, Ixx. 

 p. 110 (1874); Salvad. A7in. Mus. Civ. Gen. vii. p. 776, xvi. p. 75; 

 id. Orn. Papuasia etc. ii. p. 320; Gould, B. Neio Guinea, iv. pl. 5. 



Adult. Forehead, cheeks, and the feathers behind the bare ocular 

 region white ; the skin iu prolongation of the gape bare and forming 

 a little elevated ridge; the underside of the base of the mandible 

 and the sides of the throat naked, flesh-colour, the skin forming 

 a large and broad wattle on each side ; lores and ear-coverts, crown 

 of head, and throat dull black ; feathers of the mantle dark brown, 

 broadly edged with pale fawn-colour or whitish ; lower back and 

 upper tail-coverts rusty brown ; wings and tail brown, externally 

 slightly washed with olive, most of the primaries with narrow 

 whitish tips ; feathers of the fore neck and chest white at base, blackish 

 brown towards the tip ; breast blackish brown, the sides with broad 

 creamy tips : under tall-covcrts creamy ; inner margin of remiges pale 

 fulvous; under wing-covcrts and edge of wing mottled blackish brown 

 and fulvous ; bill and feet whitish blue. Culmen 1-5 inch, wing 

 5-2-5-4, tail 4-(J, tarsus 1-15-1-2. 



Uab. 2\ew Guinea. 



[d'Jad. 

 S ad. si 



New Guinea. 

 Arfak Mountains 

 (,lan. 1876). 



Purchased. 



Mr. Bruijn [C.l 



2. Melirrhophetes ochromelas. 



Melirvhophptes ochromelas, Meyer, Sitzb. Ak. Wiss. Ti'ien, Ixx. p. Ill 



