358 Mr. P. L. Sclater on Ornithological 



pally on Mouut Arfak and in the islands of the Bay of Geel- 

 vink^ but also contains specimens from Dorcy, Sorong, Sala- 

 watti, Waigiou, and Kofl&ao. It contains 2644 skins, be- 

 longing to 279 species, of which 34 only are not represented 

 in Beccari^s collection. 



Thus the two collections together furnish the magnificent 

 series of upwards of 4600 specimens, referable to about 350 

 species, of which no less than 58 are stated to be new to science, 

 and are described in the present paper. Amongst them are 

 representatives of five new forms proposed to be called Oreo- 

 charis, Ramphocharis, CEdistoma, Melilestes, and Timeliopsis. 

 Oreocharis is a new genus of Dieseinse ; Ramphocharis is allied 

 to Melanocharis, and referable to the same group ; Melilestes 

 and CEdistoma are two new forms of Meliphagidse. There 

 are also in the series many new species belonging to Austra- 

 lian genera, such as Grallina bruijni and Drymoedus affinis. 

 Taken together the two collections of Beccari and Bruijn 

 contain examples of almost all the species hitherto described 

 from New Guinea and the Papuan Islands. All the Para- 

 dise-birds yet known, with the exception of the recently dis- 

 covered Diphyllodes gulielmi-tertii and Epimachus ellioti, are 

 represented in them ; and the whole series of Paradisece con- 

 tains nearly 800 individuals in various stages of plumage. 



Salvadorij in the present paper, separates the Pygmy Parrots 

 of the islands of Geelvink Bay, which have been described by 

 Schlegel as local varieties, as Nasiterna maforensis and N. 

 misorensis, and gives a description of the female of his recently 

 discovered N. bruijni of the Arfak Mountains. Salvadori 

 has compared Leucophantes brachyurus, Scl., with specimens 

 of the genus Amaurodryas (i. e. Peiroica) , and does not agree 

 with Meyer's notion that they are congeneric. I may add 

 that I am quite of Salvadori's opinion. My Leucojjhantes is 

 by no means the same as Petrolca. Salvadori describes two 

 new species of this genus as L. hypoxanthus and L. leucops 

 from Mount Arfak. The Manucodia of Jobi is sq^arated 

 from M. chalybeia as M. jobiensis, upon somewhat slender 

 grounds it appears to me, only one specimen from Jobi being 

 in the collection. Count Salvadori will, I trust, forgive me if I 



