sclater on tiie zoology of new guinea. 157 



Nectariniidje. 



23. Nectarinia Eques, Less. 



Voy. Coq. Zool. i. p. 67$. pi. 31, fig. 1 ; Man. d'Orn. pt. ii. p. 45. Havre- 

 Dorey, and Havre d'Offack, Waigiou [Less.). 



Specimens of this bird in the Leydeu Museum are from Gilolo. 



24. Nectarinia Zenobia, Less., sp. 



Cinnyris Zenobia, Less, Voy. Coq. Zool. i. p. 679, pi. 30. fig. 3. Cinn. 

 dementia, Less. Man. d'Orn. ii. p. 40. Havre-Dorey (Less.). 



25. Nectarinia aspasia, Less., sp. 



Cinn. Aspasia, Less. Voy. Coq. Zool. i. p. 677, pi- 30. fig. 4 ; Mull. 

 Verh. Ethn. p. 22, et Zool. Aves, p. 58. Havre-Dorey (Less.); Lobo 

 [Mull.). Mus. Lugd. 



26. Arachnothera Nova Guinea, Less., sp. 



Cinnyris Nova Guinea, Less. Voy. Coq. Zool. i. p. 6/8 ; Mull. Verh. 

 Zool. Aves, p. 70. pi. 11. fig. 3. Havre-Dorey (Less.) ; Lobo (Mull.). 



27. Dicaum pectorale, Mull. & Schl. 



Verh. Ethn. p. 162 (note). D. erythrothorax, Less. Voy. Coq. pi. 30. 

 fig. 1 ?. Lobo (Mull.). Mus. Lugd. 



28. Melanocharis nigra, Less., sp. 



Dicaum nigrum, Less. Voy. Coq. i. p. 673 ; Cent. Zool. pi. 27 ; Mull. 

 Verh. Ethn. p. 162. Havre Dorey (Less.) ; Lobo (Mull). Mus. Lugd. 



Miiller and Schlegel say this bird is not a Dicaum, but a Muscicapine, 

 allied to Boie's genus Hylocharis (since changed to Hyloterpe). It does 

 not seem to me to be referable to either of these genera, but, as far as 

 external appearances go, to be more nearly akin to Dicaum than Hylo- 

 terpe. I have therefore used for it the new generic term Alelanocharis 

 (ixeXas, niger, et x^P ls > gratia). There are examples of both sexes in the 

 Ley den Museum. 



Meliphagid^e. 



29. Ptilotis similis, Puch. 



II. & J. Voy. au P. S. Atlas, pi. 17 ; Zool. iii. p. 89. 



30. Ptilotis fumata, Mull. MS. 



R. Oetanata, N. G. (Mull). Mus. Lugd. 



31. Ptilotis striolata, Mull. MS. 



R. Oetanata, N. G. (Mull.). Mus. Lugd. 



32. Ptilotis auriculata, Mull. MS. 

 Lobo (Mull.). Mus. Lugd. 



I was not aware, when I examined specimens of these three last species 

 in the Leyden Museum, that they were undescribed, expecting to find them 

 in the ' Verhandelingen,' &c, or I should have taken notes of them. It is 

 not without reluctance that I insert them in my List, as I strongly disap- 

 prove of the practice of publishing MS. names without descriptions ; but 



