326 Count T. Salvador! on the Eighth and Ninth 



different geographical distribution of each form, and would 

 be duly appreciated by any one who is accustomed to dis- 

 criminate allied forms. But for that one must be an orni- 

 thologist. Moreover, while our author has tried to keep as 

 different races H. aspasia and H. a.^pasioides, he has made a 

 great confusion as regards their geographical distribution. 

 The range of H. aspasioides is given (p. 71) as " S.E. New 

 Guinea and New Britain/' whereas it was described from 

 Amboyna, and it is confined to the Amboyna or Ceram 

 group ; and among the localities of H. aspasia Mr. Gadow 

 includes Amboyna, where that form has never been found. 

 In fact H. aspasioides is, in the Ceram group, the Moluccan 

 representative of the exclusively Papuan H. aspasia. 



I must also point out that Mr. G adow has entirely omitted 

 Cyrtostomus melanocephalas (Ramsay) from the Solomon 

 Islands, described at p. 2G9 of the second volume of my 

 ' Ornitologia della Papuasia e delle Molucche,' where, besides 

 the description, all the quotations belonging to it are to be 

 found. This species has been omitted by Caj)t. Shelley in 

 his Monograph, and so has escaped the notice of Mr. Gadow, 

 who has not even taken the trouble of looking into that part 

 of my work relating to the Nectariniidse, which he has most 

 carefully avoided quoting. 



Passing to the Meliphagidse, the first species we find 

 (p. 129) is Myzomela guentheri from New Britain, described 

 as new, while most certainly it is the same as my Myzomela 

 erythronielas, of which there is no mention in Mr. Gadow's 

 volume, although it was dcscriljed by me in 1881 (Atti R. 

 Ac. Sc. Tor. xvi. p. 624), mentioned in the ' Annali del Museo 

 Civico di Genova,' xviii. p. 424, and in ' The Ibis,' 1882, p. 176, 

 and redescribed in the third part of my ' Ornitologia,' p. 541. 

 M. infuscata, Salvad., a representative form of M. erythro- 

 cephala in the Aru Islands, has also escaped Mr. Gadow's 

 attention. Myzomela adolphin<B is regarded as a repre- 

 sentative form of M. erythrocephala (p. 134), while it belongs 

 to a different group, being much more allied to M. boiei and 

 M. chloroptera. With M. cruentata, Meyer, from the Arfak 

 Mouutaius, are united M. coccinea, Ramsay, from Duke of 



