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TRER0NIM3. 



Young birds have the under tail-coverts tinged with ochreous and 

 with the black spots slightly indicated. 



Some specimens have part of the white plumage, or the whole of 

 it, tinged with grey. 



Hab. Australia, Eastern Papuan Islands, Eastern New Guinea, 

 and also Western New Guinea and Aru Islands, where it meets 

 M. bicolor. 



a, b. <$ ad. sk. 



c, d. Ad. sk. 

 [var.l 



e. Ad. sk. [var.]. 



/. Ad. st. 



g, h. 3 5 ad. sk. 



i. S ad. sk. 



k. Ad. sk. 

 /. cS ad. sk. 



m, n. Ad. sk. et 



St. 



o, p. Ad. sk. 



q. Ad. sk. 



r. Ad. sk. 

 s. Ad. sk. 

 t. Ad. sk. 

 u. Skeleton. 

 v. Skeleton. 



Aru Isl. 



Saibai. 



Port Moresby (A. Goldie). 



New Guinea. 



Caimcross Isl., Oct. (Capt. 



Stanley). 

 Horn Isl., Torres Straits, Sept. 



Pipers Isl., N.E. Australia. 

 Port Essington. 



Port Essington. 



Somerset, Cape York ( C'ockerell 



fy Thorpe). 

 Somerset, Cape York (Cockerell 



Sf Thorpe). 

 Port Albany (C. Co.ren). 

 N.W. Australia. 

 Australia. 

 New Guinea. 

 Port Essing-ton. 



Wallace Coll. 



(Types of species.) 

 Rev. W. MacFarlane. 



Salvin-Godnian Coll. 

 Sir E. Belcher [P.]. 

 Voy of H.M.S. 



' Rattlesnake.' 

 Voy of H.M.S. 



' Alert.' 

 Gould Coll. 

 J. B. Jukes, Esq. ) 



[P.]- t 



Capt.W. Chambers f 



[P-]- , ) 



(Types of species.) 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Tweeddale Coll. 



Tweeddale Coll. 

 Sir G. Grey [P.]. 

 Purchased. 

 Purchased. 

 Purchased. 



3. Myristicivora subflavescens. 



? Carpophaga luctuosa, Cass. Pr. Ac. Nat. Sc. Philad. 1862, p. 320, 



n. /9 (New Ireland) ; Rams, (nee Reinw.) Pr. Linn. Soe. N. S. W. 



i. p. 373 (1876) (New Ireland and Duke of York Island), ii. 



p. 376 (1878). 

 Carpophaga spilorrhoa, Sclat. (nee Gray) P. Z. S. 1877, p. 109 



(Duke of York Isl. ?). 

 Carpophaga subflavescens, Finsch, Ibis, 1886, p. 2 (New Ireland) ; 



Sharpe in Gould's B. New Guin. pt. xxv. pi. 7 (1884) ; Ibis, 1889, 



p. 140 ; Salvad. Mem. R. Ac. Sc. Tor. (2) xlii. p. 58 (Agg. Orn. 



Pap. e Mol. p. 184) (1891). 



Similar to M. spilorrhoa, but the white plumage tinged with 

 yellowish, and the wing-coverts, between the alula and primary- 

 coverts, black, instead of white ; the black spots on the under taU- 

 coverts larger. 



Hab. New Ireland. 



a. 2 a d- sk. New Ireland. 



b. Ad. sk. New Ireland ? (Rev. G. 



Brown). 



Dr. Otto Finsch [C.]. 

 (Tvpe of species.) 

 Tweeddale Coll. 



