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merely an aberration of P. analoga analoga with white instead of yellow auricular 

 jiatcli. Not only is there no other difference between the two supposed species, 

 bnt they occur together, and we have several examples with a yellowish white or 

 wliitish yellow auiicnlar patch, and have a specimen with yellow auricular feathers 

 tip|ied with white. 



The case is different with P. montunn. Its distribution is not quite clear, 

 as Duherty obtained it at Kajiaur, where also the so called P. albonotata, an 

 aberration of P. amdoi/a, was collected. Salvadori, however, mentions P. montana 

 only from the Arfak mountains, while analoga was the form he had from the 

 Arfak coast. As it is we must recognise P. montana as distinct, differing from 

 P. analoga analoga in its deeper and more olive upperside and wings and white 

 or very pale whitish sulphur yellow, not bright yeUow, auricular patch. 



27. Ptilotis versicolor versicolor Gould. 



Ptilolis versicolor Gould, Proc. Zuol. Soc. 1842. p. I'M (Australia). 

 2 ad., " Torres Straits." 



28. Ptilotis versicolor sonoroides Gray. 



Plilotis mnor(iide« G. R. Gray, P. Z. S. 18111. p. 428 (Waigiu). 



c?? ad., c^ jun., Yamna I., October 188(3. W. Doherty coll. "Iris dark 

 brown, feet iron-grey, bill black, gape yellowish." 



?, Karanton I. (near Sorong), 27. vi. 1875. Bruijn coll. (Specimen g of 

 Salvadori's list, Orn. Pap. etc. ii. 335). 



cJ, " My sol" (bought from AVhitelyj. 



5 without locality, but evidently from Bruiju's hunters. 



1 without label, preparation unknown. 



29. Ptilotis flavescens germana Rams. 



Plilolis i/ermaiia Ramsay, Prvc. Linn. Sur. N. .S'. ir.i/..< iii. pp. 2, 39 (1878). 

 1 ad., Laroki R., S.E. New Guinea. 0. C. Stone coll. 



3iJ. Ptilotis salvadorii Hart. 



Ptilotis mlvadorii Hartert, Nov. Zooi.. iii. p. 531 (180G — Owen Stanley Mts.). 

 Ptilotis lurrimans De Vis, Ibis 1897. p. 382 (Mt. Scratcbley and Wharton Range). 



1 ad., Mt. Victoria, Owen Stanley Range, 5000—7000 ft., April— June 1896. 

 (rg/je.) 



3, Mountains of the Kotoi district, 11,000 ft., August 1898. A. S. Anthony 

 coll. 



1 ad., Mt. Victoria,, Owen Stanley Range, 5000—7000 ft. 



cJ,Aroa River, 4000 ft, August 180y. E. Weiske coll. "Iris brown, feet 

 yellow, bill black." 



2, between Mts. Musgrave and Scratchley, 5000— OUOO ft. British New 

 Guinea. 



31. Ptilotis praecipua Hart. 



Plilolis /mifd/iua Hartert, Nov. Zooi,. iv. p. 370 (18U7 — U-tween Mts. Musgrave and Scratchley). 

 (?) PtilotiH jKrstriiila De Vis, /{,/,. Rrit. N. Guinea for IS'JO-V. p. Hti ^18y8 : Wliarton Range). 



S ad., between Mts. Musgrave and Scratchley, 5000-0000 ft. A. S. Anthony 

 coll. {Tgjje). 



