418 Mr. P. L. Sclatcr on Dr. A. B. Meyer's 



example of what is apparently the young of Noctua hoedtii, 

 Schlegcl. 



Dr. Meyer next turns to the Parrots, and gives some very 

 useful remarks upon Platycercus (potius A^^rosmictus"^) dor- 

 salis, of which he colleeted a series of thirty-three examples 

 in various parts of New Guinea. Other Psittacidaj spoken of 

 arc TVichoghssus placens and T. rubronotatus. The paper is 

 concluded with some remarks on Macropyyia turtur, Sclilegcl, 

 and its local forms. 



Dr. Meyer^s fourth f memoir commences with the descrip- 

 tion of Chcetorhynchus j)ajmensis , a new form allied to Dicrurus, 

 from the Arfak mountains. This is followed by characters of 

 Myiolestes macrorhynchus, from Mysore, Pachycephala jlavo- 

 grisea, Malurus alhoscapulatus , and Brachypteryx brunnei- 

 ventris, from New Guinea, and Myiagra atra, from Mafoor 

 and Mysore. Amaurodryas albotcRniata, from Jobi (perhaps, 

 as afterwards observed by the author in his fifth memoir, not 

 different from Leucophantes brachyurus, Sclater), is next de- 

 scribed, and remarks are given upon a second species of the 

 same genus, A. hypoleuca, Gray. These are succeeded by 

 notices of various Papuan Muscicapidse, of which specimens 

 were obtained, and notes upon Graucalus papuensis, the Pa- 

 puan species of Cracticus and Ptilopus aurantiifrons. The 

 Cracticus crassirostris lately described by Dr. Salvadori is 

 identified with C. quoyi. 



In his fifth and last memoir (read June 18, 1874), Dr. 

 Meyer treats of the Meliphagidse which he met with, and de- 

 scribes Melirrhophetes as a new genus, allied to Melidectes, 

 nobis, with two species, M. leucostephes and M. ochromelas. 

 Two other new species are characterized as Xanthotis poikilo- 

 sternos (lege pacilosternus) and Tropidorhynchus jobiensis. 

 A new Zosterops, from Mysore, is called Z. mysorensis ; and two 

 species of Gerygone, G. affinis and G. major ensis. Dicaum 

 geelvinkianum is a new species obtained in the islands of Ma- 

 foor, Mysore, and Jobi, while D.pectorale, Miill. et Schl., was 



* Mr. Garrod tells me that, as I had always supposed, the group tlms 

 denominated l)y Mr. Gould is structurally distinct from Platycercus. 

 t Op. cit. (May 16). 



