3. ^GOTHELES, 649 



who has kindly compared it for me with a specimen of ^. albertisi, 

 it is similar to the latter in size and proportions, hut differs in the 

 more marhled upper surface and the less rufous coloration. It 

 must remain doubtful at present whether the two are really distinct 

 species or not. 



Bab, Arfak Mountains, New Guinea. 



5. JEgotheles salvadorii. 



Above dark brown ; forehead and sides of the crown with brown- 

 ish-white mottlings, centre and hinder part of crown nearly uniform ; 

 a distinct whitish collar on the hind neck, whitish transverse 

 mottlings on all the upper parts, some few larger pale spots to the 

 upper wing-coverts and scapulars ; quills spotted with buff on the 

 outer webs, uniform deep brown on the inner webs ; rectrices with 

 narrow pale bars across both webs, these being more distinct on 

 the outer webs : lower parts buff, each feather with blackish 

 shaft-stripes and spots near the shaft ; throat and breast more 

 spotted and darker; lower abdomen and lower tail-coverts more 

 uniform ; under wing-coverts dark brown, spotted with buflfy 

 white : upper mandible brown ; feet pale. Total length about 8 

 inches, wing 4-6 to 4-S, tail 4-22, tarsus 0"79. 



Another specimen is more rufous above, the bars on the tail 

 dark rufous-brown, the lower parts similar. 



I have found it necessary to give a new name to these two speci- 

 mens, as they do not agree with any of the species that I have seen, 

 nor with the descriptions of those that I have not seen. It may 

 after all belong to ^. albertisi, but I greatly doubt it. 



Hob. Astrolabe Mountains, S.E. New Guinea. 



a. Ad. sk. Moroco district, Astrolabe Moun- H. 0. Forbes, Esq. 



tains, Nov. [C.]. 



b. Ad. sk. Astrolabe Mts. H. O. Forbes, Esq. 



[C.]. 



6. JEgotheles affinis. 



^gotheles affinis, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. vii. p. 917 (1875) ; 

 id. op. cit. X. p. 310 (1877) ; id. Orn. Pajmas. i. p. 525 (1880). 



Above dark brown ; rictal and loral bristles black, rufous at base ; 

 forehead, superciliary stripe, and auricular spot rufescent ; spot on 

 the occiput and collar on the neck rufous white ; back and upper 

 wing-coverts dark brown, narrowly barred with whitish grey ; 

 throat and breast rufescent ; feathers of the breast with a dark 

 brown longitudinal shaft-line and spots and bars of the same colour ; 

 abdomen and lower tail-coverts uniform white ; quills dark brown, 

 spotted with reddish white on the outer webs ; tail brown, central 

 and lateral pairs of rectrices with spotted bars of whitish on both 

 webs, the others on the outer webs only : bill and feet dark brown. 

 Total length about 9 inches, wing 5-4, tail 4-3, tarsus 0-9. 



I have not seen this species. 



Ilab. Arfak Mountains, New Guinea. 



