ON NEW-GUINEA BIRDS. 177 



indication of locality or sex ; this is the specimen of Tem- 

 minck's Cabinet and n°. 1 of Schlegel's Catalogue. Further 

 two adult males collected bj von Rosenberg in April 1870 

 near Hattam, Arfak Mountains (nos. 2 and 3 of Schlegel's 

 Revue). A young specimen from Hattam purchased 1874 

 (n°. 4 of Schlegel's Revue), this specimen is mentioned 

 by Schlegel as a female, it shows however all the characters 

 of a young specimen, the quills are namely not pointed 

 at their ends and, as the red feathers on the sides of the 

 rump have no yellow bases, it seems to be a male. An 

 adult female from Mount Arfak, May 1874, presented by 

 van Musschenbroek in 1878, and three adult males from 

 Mount Arfak, February 187G, purchased from Mr. Bruyn 

 in 1878. 



Charmosynopsis pulcliella (Gray). 



Nanodes pulchellus, Schlegel, Revue Psitt. 1874, p. 52. 

 Charmosynopsis pulcliella, Salvadori, Cat, B. Br. M. XX, 

 1891, p. 80. 



One young male. 



Melidora macrorliina (Less.). 



Dacelo macrorhina, Schlegel, Cat. Alced. 1863, p. 22. 

 Melidora macrorhina, Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. M. XVII, 1892, 



p. 201. — Rothschild and Hartert, Nov. Zool. VIII, 



1901, p. 149. 



One specimen, a female. — We have 15 specimens from 

 northwest New Guinea (Doreh, Andai, Mount Arfak, Am- 

 berbaki), western New Guinea (Skroe), from Misool and 

 from Waigeoe. A female from the latter island has the 

 head much more uniform in colour than females from 

 New Guinea and Misool. The feathers of the forehead 

 have green tips as in other females, the feathers of the 

 crown, however, are but very minutely tipped with green, 

 that part being almost pure black. This bird approaches 

 Salvadori's Melidora jobiensis. 



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