28S MELIPHAGID.5;. 



and breast rufous ; flunks, abdomen, and under tail-coverts olive ; 

 bill and feet brown. Culmen 0-63 inch, wing 2-7-3-1, tail 2-05-2-22, 

 tarsus 0-Sl." (Salvadori .) 

 Hub. Arfak Mountains. 



3. Euthyrhynchus fulviventris. 



Plectorbynclia fulviventris, Rainmii,Proc. Linn. Sac. N. S. TV. 1882, 

 p. 718 ; Sharpe. Journ. Linn. Soc. xvi. 1882, p. 439. 



Euthvrliynclius ? fulviventris, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. xviii. 

 p. 425" (1882) ; id. Orn. Papuasia etc. iii. p. 545 (1882). 



Adult. All the upper parts uniform rusty olive-brown ; wings and 

 tail reddish brown, externally washed with the same colour as the 

 back ; sides of head and ear-coverts slightly paler than the crown ; aU 

 the underparts, including the edge of the wing and the wing-coverts 

 and the inner margin of the remiges, uniform fulvous, shghtly 

 darker, inclining to brownish, on the flanks, thighs, and under tail- 

 coverts ; bill dark brown ; feet and claws pale brownish in the 

 skin. Culmen 0-9 inch, wing 3-6, tail 2-5, tarsus 0-98. 



ITab. South-eastern N^ew Guinea. 



a. Ad. sk. Astrolabe Momitaius. Mr. A. Goldie [C] 



4. Euthyrhynchus gymnops. 



Mehpotes gymnops, Scl. F. Z. 8. 1873, p. 695, pi. 56 ; Meyer, Sitzb. 

 Ah. Wiss. Wien, Ixx. p. 19, note (1874) ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. 

 Gen. vii. p. 776, x. p. 145, xvi. p. 75 ; Gould, B. New Guinea, 

 pt. iv. pl. 8; Salvad. Orn. Papuasia etc. ii. p. 317. 



Adult. Sides of head bare, orange-yellow in the flesh ; crown of 

 head and occiput blackish brown, rest of upper parts dark brown, 

 with slightly paler greyish edges to the feathers ; wings and tail 

 dark brown, externally edged with dull olive ; edge of wing, under 

 wing-coverts, and under tail-coverts pale fulvous ; inner margin 

 of quills whitish buff; throat, fore neck, and chest uniform duU 

 blackish brown ; the feathers of the breast and flanks more greyish, 

 each feather with an oval termiiial patch of cream-colour, this 

 colour becoming predominant on the centre of the abdomen ; " biU 

 and iris black ; feet lead-colour " (Scdvadori). Culmen O'S inch, 

 wing 4"1, tail 3'5, tarsus 1-15. 



Bab. North-eastern New Guinea. 



a,b. $ ad. sk. Arfak Mountains, January 1876. Mr. Bruiju [C.]. 



19. MELIRRHOPHETES. 



Type. 



Melirrhophetes, Meyer, Sitzb. Ak. Wiss. Wien, Ixx. 



p. 110 (1874) M. leucostephes. 



Bill slightly longer than the rest of the head ; culmen prominent, 

 slightly curved. Nostrils longitudinal, operculated, quite uncovered 



