( 439 ) 



2 <S juv., without exact locality. (? Arfak.) 



1 ad., 1 jnv., without exact locality. (? Arfak.) 

 1 <S, without exact locality. (? Arfak.) 

 3, Ai'fak. Burke coll. 



13. Melipotes gymnops fumigatus Mey. 



ilelipotes fumigalns Meyer, Zeitsrhr.f. ges. Orn. iii. p. 22 (1886 : " Hufeisengebirge "). 

 Melipotes (itrireps Grant, Bull. B. 0. Club v. p. 15 (December 1895 : Owen Stanley Mts.). (Very 

 poor description, more a bindrance than an aid to science.) 



t) ad., 1 juv., Owen Stanley Mts., 3000—7000 ft., 1896—1897. Native coll. 



3 iS,2 2'i, 2 sex?. Bit. Cameron, 5000—7000 ft, 1896. A. S. Anthony 

 coll. '' Iris dark red, feet jiale blue, bill black." 



1 ad., Mt. Scratchley. A. S. Anthony coU. 



1 ?, Avera, Aroa River, 7. iii. 1903. A. S. Meek coll., No. A 380. 

 " Iris dark reddish brown, feet pale chalky blue, bill black." 



14. Melidectes torquatus torquatus >Scl. 



Melitlectee torquatus Sclater, P. Z. S. 1873. p. Ii94. PI. 55 (Arfak). 



1 " ? ," Arfak. From Bruijn's hunters. " No. 14." 

 1 without locality, but evidently from Bruijn's hunters. 



15. Melidectes torquatus emilii Mey. 



Melidectes nnilii Meyer, Zeilschr. ijes. Orn. iii. p. 22 (I88lj ; " Hufeisengebirge "). 



1, Hnnstein coll. (marked " Typus " in the author's own handwriting). 

 1, "No. 130," Goldiecoll. 



1 without label. 



c?, 1 ?, British New Guinea. 



2 SS, Mt. Cameron, Owen Stanley Range, 5000—7000 ft., August 1896. 

 A. S. Anthony coll. " Iris brown, feet j)ale blue, bill blue." 



3 SS, 3 ??, Avera, Aroa River, 23, 30, 31. i. 1903, 4, 17. iii. 1903. 

 A. S. Meek coll., Nos. A 54, 55, 159, 160, 355, 428. " Iris dark brown, feet 

 slaty blue, bill chalky blue." 



16. Melirrhophetes leucostephes Mey. 



Melirrhophetes leucostephes A. B. Meyer, Sitzungshei: I: Ak. Wissensch. Wien Ixx. p. 110 (Arfak). 



7, without locality. Brnijn's preparation. 



1 ?, Hatam, Arfak, 6. vii. 1X75. Bruijn coll. (Specimen k of Salvadori's 

 list in Orn. Pnp. li. p. 320). 



1 cf, 4 ? ?, Arfak, 1879. Bruijn coll. 



17. Melirrhophetes ochromelas ochromelas Mey. 



Melirrhophetes ochromelas Meyer, I.e. p. Ill (Arfak). 



1, Arfak. From Brnijn's Imnters. 



1, without label, seems to appniach M. n. hntc.si in the colour of the supra-ocular 

 stripe and tips of the ear-coverts. 



1, Ambernch River. J. M. Dturias coll. Also approaching M. o. batesi. 



