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GENKRA AXD SPF.CIKS OF BIRDS. 



Family XXVI. PROMEROPID^. 



MeUphac/idce, pt., Gadow, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. ix. p. 282 (1884). 

 Shelley,' B. Africa, ii. p. 161 (1900). 



PROMEROPS, Briss. 



(Gadow, t. c. p. 282.) 



I. cafer (/,?■«».). (p. 283.) 

 (Shelley, t.c. p. 161.) 



Cape Colony 

 (Cape Town to 

 Grabamstown). 



2. gurneyi, -/ Verr. (p. 284.) 

 (^Shelley, t.c. p. 165.) 



Natal and 



E. Transvaal. 



Family XXYII. MELIPHAGIDiE *. 



[Cf. Gadow, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. ix. p. 127 (1884); Salvad. 

 Orn. Papuasia, ii. p. 290 (1881); id. Ibis, 1884, pp. 326- 

 329 ; Eothsch. & Hartert, Nov. Zool. x. pp. 435-445 (1903).] 



I. MELITHREPTES, Vieill. 



(Cf. Salvad. Orn. Papuasia, ii. p. 362, 1881; 

 Gadow, f. c. p. 204.) 



1. atricapillus (Lath.). 



lunulatus (Shaw), (p. 204.) 

 [Cf. Sharpe, Hist. Coll. ii. p. .il (190.'>).] 



S. Queensland. 



S. & S.E. Australia 



(Victoria & S. Australia 

 to N. S. Wales and 

 Wide Bay district). 



2. albigularis, Gould, (p. 205.) 

 (Cf. Salvad.^. c. p. 362.) 



N.E. Australia 

 (Cape York. 

 S. to Herbert River, in 

 N.E. Queensland). 



N.W. Australia 

 (Derby). 



S.E. New Guinea. 



* For information as to the species of Meliphagida and their distribution in 

 Australia, T am much indebted to Mr. A. J. North, of the .Vustralian Mu.seum, Sydney. 



