( 7!) ) 



A. D. m. marpnfica (= sdenrUlps) with dnll bi'own crnwn, wings olay-colonred 

 to orange. Berau Peninsula (? etc.). 



R. ]). m. cliri/soptera (^= jobiensis) with dull brown crown and golden orange 

 wings. Jobi, and pro])ably nortii coast east of Geelvink Bay (? to Hnmlioldt Bay). 



('. f). m. huiixti'iiii (= si'pfenfrionnl/s, Xdnthopterd) witli reddish brown 

 crown and orange to golden-orange wings. British and German New Guinea. 



The females of the various supposed forms seem to be quite indistinguishalde. 



The colour of the secondaries is certainly most variable, and generally not of 

 much consequence, but the Jobi, German and British Xew Guinea forms have always 

 more or less brighter orange secondaries. The colour of the crown is always more 

 reddish in the birds from German and British New Guinea, generally duller brown, 

 not reddish in those from Jobi and Dutch New Guinea, but there are also variations 

 in the same country. The colour of tlio upper back is a very variable cliaracter, but 

 it is generally, not always, brigliter, more red, in JJ. m. hiinsteitii than in J), m. 

 mag)iijica and f). m. chrijsoptera, though the latter varies also in this respect. What 

 we require now is a good series from the various localities in Western (Dutch) New 

 Guinea, well labelled and preserved, not trade-skins with uncertain localities. 



We have, in the Tring Mnsenm, the following specimens :— 



A. Specimens from British and German New Guinea (c? crown rufous-brown, 

 upper back deep crimson, secondaries bright orange : D. kidisteini anct.). 



10 (? ad. in full plumage, 1 c? in moult, 1 S juv., 1 ?, Mt. Cameron, British 

 New Guinea, 1800. A. S. Anthony coll. 



3 c? ad. from the mountains of British New Guinea, e.vact place not known. 

 A. S. Anthony coll. 



1 c? in monlt, 2 ? ad., Eafa district, between Mts. Alexander and Bellamy, 

 yOiMi— ()i)OU ft., October 180.5. A. S. Anthony coll. 



1 S ad. without e.xact locality. 



1 S ad. (with one curious sj)atulated elongated rectri.x, one normal one), Kotoi 

 district, Brit. New Guinea, August 1898. A. S. Anthony coll. 



1 S imniat. in moult, Upper Brown River, " between Astrolabe and Mt. 

 Owen Stanley ranges," luirchased from Mcllwraith k McEacliarn. 



1 ? between rivers Laroki and Vanapa. E. Weiske coll. 



1 ?, Nicura, Brit. New Guinea. Li.\ coll. 



2 c? ad., 1 ?, Finisterre Mts., German New Guinea. (Jotton & AVebster coll. 

 1 S ad., Simbang, German New Guinea, February 1894. 



1 c? ad., 1 ?, Bongu, German New (iuinea, 1899. E. Nyman coll. 



1 S ad., Sattelberg, German New Guinea, July 1892. Bruno Geisler coll. 



(We cannot see any difference whatever between specimens from Britisli and 

 German New Guinea.) 



B. Specimens from Jobi Island and the northern coast of New Guinea, east of 

 Jobi : 7>. chri/soptera of Sharpe. Fer.*'ectly like the so-called hunsteini, but crown 

 generally less rufous, more greyisli brown, back often less reddish. 



1 S ad., Ansus, Jol)i, ex coll, Guillcmard. " Iris yellow, bill greyish blue, 

 tarsus bine." 



;{ c? ad., Serai, Jobi, bought from natives by W. Doherty. 



1 (? ad., Sarmi, opposite Arimao Islands, long. KiO , jiurchased by Doherty. 



1 (? imnuit., Waropcn, purchased by Doherty. 



2 <J ad., Humboldt's Bay, bought by Doherty . 

 d juv., Tana Mera, October 1«00. W. Doherty 



