82 BIC^ID^. 



ashy white along the edge of the inner web. Total length 4*5 

 inches, ciilmen 0"55, wing 2'G, tail 1-9, tarsus 0"65. 



Adult female. Different from the male. General colour above 

 olive, the lesser and median wing-coverts like the back ; greater 

 coverts, bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills dusky brown, 

 narrowly edged with olive, more broadly on the secondaries, the 

 primaries narrowly edged with whity brown ; tail-feathers blackish, 

 broadly margined with olive, the outer ones narrowly fringed with 

 white at the tips, the external one also edged with white near the 

 end of the outer web ; sides of face and ear-coverts olive ; cheeks 

 and under surface of body ashy olive washed with yellowish ; axil- 

 laries and under wing-coverts pale olive-yellow, dusky near the 

 edge of the wing; quills dusky below, ashy white along the edge 

 of the inner web. Total length 4-4 inches, culmen 0'55, wing 2*5, 

 tail 1-7, tarsus 0-65. 



Hab. South-eastern New Guinea. 



a,b. S; c. 2 ad. sk. Astrolabe Mountains, S.E. Mr. A. Goldie [C.]. 



New Guinea. 

 d. cJ juv. sk. Astrolabe Moimtains, S.E. Mr. A. Goldie [0.]. 



New Guinea. 



4. Melanocharis unicolor. 



Melanocharis major (pt.), Meyer, Sitz. k. Akad. Wissensch. Wien, 



Ixx. p. 18 (1874). 

 Melanocharis unicolor, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. xii. p. 333 



(1878), xvi. p. 68 (1880) ; id. Orn. Papuasia etc. ii. p. 282 (1881). 



Male. Above and below intense black ; under wing-coverts white. 

 Total length 5-1 inches, culmen 0*4, wing 2-45, tail 1-9, tarsus 0*6. 

 {Salvadori.') 



Female (?). Above olivaceous, greyish below with a slight olive 

 tint; under wing-coverts white. (Salvadori.) 



Hab. Islands of Jobi and Miosnom in the Bay of Geelvink, N.W. 

 New Guinea. 



18. PRISTORHAMPHUS. 



Type. 

 Pristorhamphus, Fiiisch, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 641 P. versteri. 



Bill of P. versteri, profile and top view. 

 Range. N.W. New Guinea. 



1. Pristorhamphus versteri. 



Pristorhamphus versteri, Finscli, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 642 ; Salvad. Ann. 

 Mus. Civic. Genov. vii. p. 940 (1876), xvi. p. 69 (1880) ; id. Orn. 

 Papuasia etc, ii. p. 286 (1881). 



