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darker brown sliaft-liiies. The n])per surface is generally a shade more olive, less 

 rufous, the tail and wings distinctly more olivaceous, less rufons brown. 



This form has, by Salvadori, Sharpe, Meyer, Finsch, and other authorities, been 

 united with P. rnvq. ritfoganter of Australia, bnt the Australian form has always a 

 much paler, generally more greyish npperside, lighter and more uniform light buff 

 throat and aiijiarcntly paler bill. It resembles superficially somewhat /'. wrgu- 

 ihijncha a[fiitis of Waigiu, bnt is much less olivaceous on the under surface. 



Type of Piimrolestes 7negarlo/iiclia desijectus : S ad., Milne Bay, British New 

 Guinea, 14. ii. 1899. A. S. Meek coll.. No. 23:,'3. " Iris brown, feet and bill ligh 

 bluish slate." 



2 cJc?,2 ? ?, Milne Bay, February and April Is'.m. A. S. Meek coll., Nos. 

 2227, -2323, 2434,2465. 



4, Mt. Cameron, Owen Stanley Range, xVngust— September 1896. A. S. 

 Anthony coll. 



1 cJ, Mailu district, British New Guinea, 30. vii. 1895. A. S. Anthony coll. 



2 ?, " low country near Port Moresby." Weiske coll. Bought from McUwraith 

 & BIcEacharn in Loudon. (Probably from the Brown River.) 



2, Eafa district. Purchased from McUwraith & McEacharu in London. 

 1, between Rivers Laroki and Vanapa. AVeiske coll. 

 1, British New Guinea. Goldie coll. 



1, Sogere, 25. xi. 1885, 2000 ft. high. H. 0. Forbes coll. 



30. Pinarolestes megarhyncha rufogaster (Gould). 



Colliii-i'inda nifiiijasler Gould, P. Z. S. 1845. p. 80 (Port Essiugtou, Australia). 



This form is restricted to Australia. We have a good series from Queensland 

 and N.W. Australia, but it is jjossible that there are also several forms in Australia. 



31. Pinarolestes megarhyncha affinis (Gray). 



.Mijiolaslrs iiffiiih Gray, P. Z. .'>'. IsOI. p. 431 {" Giigi "— proljably erroneous statemeut, as with all 

 birds described by Gray from Gagi. Typical locality Waigiu— type in British Museum 

 labelled Waigiu). 



Tills is the most distinct one of the various forms of Papuan Pinarolcsteis, 

 dittering from the others in its distinctly olivaceous underside. It is only known 

 from Waigiu, and does uot occur on the Mysol, though one of Wallace's specimens in 

 the British Museum is erroneously labelled " Mysol." 

 We have so far only three specimens : 



2, Momos, Waigiu,'25— 27. x. 1883. " Length 18-5 cm. " Iris greyish-brown, 

 bill horn-colmir, tarsus brownish (brownish black)." H. Guiliemard coll. 



1 , 'without original label, bnt evidently from Bruijn's hunters. 



32. Pachycephala dahli Rchw.* 



Parl:i/cej,/,tila mdnuura ilahli Reiclienow, Oni. M;„„i.lja: l«97.p. 178 (Crediier IiiSflu aud Raluau\ 



6 , outer edges of primaries grey. 



Prof. Itvichenow described this bird in the first instance as ditferent, under the 

 notion that the birds from New Britain (Neu Pommern) were typical melaimra. 



• II i> iKiriUy iiusciblc to say if P. citrcigaslcr liaius. (1877) or P. nurula Lesson (1S2S) refer to this 

 fiirm or Ui Jiiuclii, ■■"> botlj were described hvm females, the former from "New Britain and adjacent 

 inlandb," i.e. without exact locality, the latter from New Ireland. Fiuther researches are necessary to 

 clear up these uomenclatorial questions. 



