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punctulated with whitish, the others with rufous ; primaries dark 

 brown, vermiculated with rufous ; outer webs spotted with the same 

 colour, nearl}' uniform below ; tail rufous, irregularly barred with 

 dark brown, more narrowly on the central pair, more broadly on 

 the lateral ones ; outer web of lateral pair of rectrices with a 

 pale rufous spot : upper mandible dark brownish ; lower mandible 

 and feet pale. Total length about 10 inches, wing 6'1, tail 4-5, 

 tarsus 0-85. 



Hab. Arfak Mountains, New Guinea. 



3. .ffigotheles albertisi. 



^gotheles albertisi, Scl. P. Z. S. 1873, p. 696 (Arfak Mts.) ; id. Ibis, 

 1874, p. 416 : A. B. Meyer, Situngsber. Ak. Wiss. Wien, Ixx. 

 p. 128 (1874) ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gm. x. pp. 130, 309 (1877) ; 

 id. Orn. Papuas. i. p. 624 (1880). 



Adult female (Arfak Mountains). Above chestnut-rufous; fore- 

 head chestnut-butf, crown shaded and spotted with black and with 

 some whitish terminal spots ; some whitish bars across the feathers 

 of the hind neck, forming a semicollar ; some whitish spots and 

 some dusky markings to the feathers of the back and rump ; upper 

 wing-coverts deep brown laterally, spotted and shaded with chest- 

 nut-rufous and largely tipped with whitish ; primaries dusky ; 

 outer webs spotted with pale brownish rufous ; two outermost pairs 

 of rectrices dusky, with pale huffy spots to the outer webs and pale 

 rufous bars to the inner webs ; two following pairs barred with 

 chestnut-rufous, more distinct on the outer webs ; central pair 

 chestnut-rufous, barred with dusky ; wing and tail paler below : 

 lower parts rufous isabelline, chin and throat more brownish, 

 terminal spots of deep brown to the feathers ; lower abdomen 

 and lower tail-coverts almost uniform ; under wing-coverts brown. 

 Total length about Ik inches, wing 4-7, tail 3-9, tarsus 0-75. Upper 

 mandible deep brown ; feet pale. {Mus. W. Rothschild.) 



Hab. Arfak Mountains, New Guinea. 



4. .ffigotheles dubius. 



^gotheles dubius, A. JB. Meyer, Sitzungsber. Ak. Wiss. Wien, Ixix. 

 p. 75 (1874; Arfak Mts.); id. op. cit. Ixx. p. 128 (1874, note); 

 Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. x. p. 310 (1877) ; id. Orn. Papuas. i. 

 p. 527 (1880). 



Above brownish, distinctly marbled with black and white ; some 

 yellowish- brown feathers on the top of the head ; primaries dusky ; 

 outer webs barred with black and white ; rectrices blackish grey 

 with narrow light rufous bars, outer pair with white markings ; 

 chin whitish buff ; throat and breast blackish, irregularly barred 

 with brownish aud white ; abdomen paler. Total length about 

 7*86 inches, wing 4"52, tail 4-13. 



I have not seen this species, but according to Dr. A. B. Meyer, 



