14. MELITOGRAIS. 281 



feet black ; iris red-brown " (Salvadori). Culmeu 1'7-1"0 inch, wing 

 6*l-6'4, tail 5o-5-8, tarsus l'o-l-6. 

 Mab. Ceram. 



a, b,c. Ad. sk. Ceram. A. E. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



<?. Ad. sk. Ceram (Wallace). Gould Collection. 



16. PMIemon meyeri. 



Tropidorhvnchus inornatiis, Meyer (nee Gray), Sitzb. Ak. Wiss. Wien, 



Ixx. p. 212 (1874) ; id. Ibis, 1875, p. 147. 

 Ptilotis, nov. gen.?, d'Albertis, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. x. p. 20 



(1877). 

 Philemon meyeri, Salvad. Ann. Mtts. Civ. Gen. xii. p. 339 (1878) ; 



d'Alb. et Salvad. op. cit. xiv. p. 82. 

 Philemonopsis meyeri, Salv. op. cit. xvi. p. 79 (1880) ; id. Orn. 



Papuasia etc. ii. p. 350. 



Adult. The bare parts restricted to the ocular region and the 

 small part of the sides of the crown ; aU the upper parts ashy 

 brown, with slightly paler margins to each feather : leathers of 

 crown and hind neck darker towards the shafts ; wings and tail 

 uniform brown ; cheeks, ear-coverts, and all the underparts uniform 

 pale ashy brown. Culmcn 1-2 inch, wing 4-2^-5, tail 3-7-3"9, 

 tarsus 1. 



Young hird.^ have the feathers of the mantle edged with white, 

 those of the fore neck and chest edged with pale yellow. 



Hub. Xew Guinea. 

 a, b. Ad. sk. ; c. Juv. sk. Astrolabe Mountains. Mr. A. Goldie [C.]. 



14. MELITOGRAIS. 



Type. 

 Melitograis, Sundevall, Method. Av. Tcntam. p. 50 (1872) M. gilolensis. 



Bill longer than rest of head, curved : culmen strongly ridged. 

 Nostrils longitudinal, with a very well-developed operculum. First 

 primary about half the length of the second. Tail square, and 

 four fifths, secondaries five sixths of the length of the wing. Scutella 

 in front of the tarsus sometimes fused together. Pattern of colour 

 very much like that of Philemon, but the shafts of the feathers 

 white; feathers of fore neck not lanceolate. Length of wing about 

 4 inches. 



Head of Melitograis gilolensis. 

 Range. Moluccas. 



