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We have the following specimens : — 



I, Expedition Bay, New Hanover, 15. iii. 1S97. Capt. Cayley Webster coll. 

 (in spirits). 



4 6 <S, November — Deccmbei- 188o, New Britain. Th. Kleinschmidt coll., Nos. 

 531, 60U, 6U5, 092. Native name " Dilau " (not Kilaii). 



4. Ifrita coronata Kothsch. 



Ifrita coromda Rothschild, Bull. B. 0. C. vii. p. liv. May 1808 (locality erroneously given as low 



country east of Port Moresby ; the typical place is : Mountains of British New Guinea). 

 Nov. ZodL. vi. p. 218. PI. III. fig. ). 



We have now the following specimens : — 



1 c?, type of the species, e.^aet locality nuknown. 



3 c?c?,"2 ? ¥, Mt. Kuntsford, "11,000 ft.," August 1898. A. S. Anthony coll. 



2 (? ad., 1 <S juv., 3 ? ?, Area River, GilOO ft., January 1000. E. Wciske coll. 

 We are not quite certain about the systematic position of this remarkable bird, 



but believe it to belong near Bn/moedus and Amalocichla. 



5. Amalocichla sclateriana De Vis. 



Amalocichla sclateriana De Vis, Report on New Guinea for 1892, p. 95 (Mt. Owen Stanley). 



1, Mt. Victoria (Owen Stanley), 5000—7000 ft., April— June 1896. 



1 ?, Kotoi district, British New Guinea, " 11,000 ft.," August 1898. A. 8. 

 Anthony coll. 



1 (not sexed), Kotoi district, British New Guinea, " 11,000 ft.," August 1898. 

 A. S. Anthony coll. 



6. Amalocichla brevicauda (De Vis). 



Drymoedus breri/ytudii De Vis, Report Brit. New Guinea, 1894, Blnh p. 5 (Mt. Manaeao). 

 Amalocichla breriaaula Rothsch. & Hart., Bull. B. 0. C. xi. p. 26 (November 19U0). 



1 ? ad., 3 (not sexed), 1 juv., Aroa River, 4000 ft., December 1899. Emil 

 Weiske coll. " Iris black." 



1 (not sexed), Mts. of the Kotoi district, August 1898. A. Anthony coll. The 

 young bird is above rufous brown, with a blackish tip and a bright ochreons subter- 

 minal patch to each feather. The white loral spot barely indicated. Feathers of the 

 underside ])ale ochreons with broad blackish edges, abdomen almost white with dirty 

 brown edges to most of the feathers. 



7. Crateroscelis murinus (Scl.). 



Brachypteryx murinus fiola,teT,Joiirn. Linn. Soc. London ii. p. 158 (1868 : descr. prima). 



1 c?, 2 ¥?, Mysol, January, Febmarj', 1900. H. Kiihn coll. " Iris chocolate- 

 brown, feet pale grey, upper mandible black, lower colourless." Nos. 1939, 1995, 

 2023. 



1 cJ, 1 ¥, Kapaur, December 1896. W. Doherty coll. " Iris sepia." 



2 cJc?, Takar, October, November 1896. W. Doherty coll. " Iris crimson." 

 2 c?c?! Marai, Jobi Island, April 1897. W. Doherty coll. 



2 from near Humboldt Bay. J. M. Dumas coll. 



1 said to be from the Ambernoh River. J. M. Dumas coll. (Ex Duivenbode). 

 1 J, 1 (not sexed), Mt. Cameron, 7000 ft., August, September, 1896. A. S. 

 Anthony coll. 



