174 ON NEW-GUINEA BIRDS. 



Macropygia nigrirostris Salvad. 



Macropygia nigrirostris, Salvadori, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, 

 VII, 1875, p. 972. — id. Cat. B. Br. M. XXI, 1893, p. 361. 



Two specimens, apparently a male and a female. — This 

 species was represented in our collection by a male col- 

 lected by Laglaize, 18 February 1876 at Tjoboenda, Arfak 

 district, and a female collected by the same, 5 April 1876 

 at Moepirboe, Arfak district, both under the name of 

 Macropygia turtur auct. Schlegel. 



A male from Duke of York Island, 4 October 1880, and 

 a male from New Britain, 26 November 1880, both col- 

 lected by Th. Kleinschmidt and purchased from the Godeffroy 

 Museum in May 1882, are conspicuously larger than our 

 specimens from western New Guinea, having also less stout, 

 more slender bills. 



I separate here these two birds, which seem to belong 

 to an eastern form, under the name of: 



Macropygia nigrirostris major, n. subsp. 



In colour they don't differ from males from western 

 New Guinea, only their inner secondaries are blackish brown 

 with a chestnut tinge and with very small chestnut edges, 

 while the inner secondaries of our West New Guinea-birds 

 are blackish brown, barred with chestnut. 



The measurements are : 



Macropygia nigrirostris major'. 



al. caud. culmen. 



cT New Britain 156 180 14,5 mm. 



cf Duke of York Isl. 156 186 14,5 » 



Macropygia nigrirostris : 



al. caud. culmen. 



C^ Andai 148 160 14 mm. 



cf Arfak 145 160 13,5 » 



9 Andai 148 162 14 » 



9 Arfak 146 145 14 » 



Notes from the Leyden Miuseum, 'V^ol. XXIX. 



