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4 (?(?, 2 ? ?, Rossel I,, January, February, March 1898. A. S. Meek coll., 

 Nos. 1253, 1259, 1385, 1388, Ufil, 1581. 



The Yamna birds are indistinguishable. Meyer's Juscescens (type from 

 Yamna) undonbtedly based on immature birds. 



3. Monarcha inornata g'eelwinkianus Mey. 



Mumirrha ijeehfiiikiiiniiK A. B. Meyer, Sitzungsber & Abh., Ges. I-sis 1884, Abb. i. p. 23 (Misori 

 Jobi). 



3 cJc?, 1 ?, 3 unscxed, Mayfor, May— June 1807. W. Doherty coll. 



The deeper chestnut-brown abdomen and lighter grey distinguish this form 

 well from tyjiical iiioniatn. It rather resembles another form, i.e. M. i. lussercnsis, 

 from the South-East and South-West Islands. 



4. Monarcha melanopsis (Vieill.). 



Miisrh-apa. ntplannjisls Vieillot, Noiir. Diet. xxi. p. 4r)0 (1818), niae from Australia. 



1 ?, Mt. Cameron, Owen Stanley Range, 200(1 ft., 10. viii. I80ti. Anthony coll. 

 1, Nicura. Lix coll. 



1, British New Guinea. Goldic coll. 



2 c?c?, 2 ? ?, Milne Bay, B'ebruary, April 1800, November 1898. A. S. Meek 

 coll., Nos. 2147, 2338, 2470, 2486. 



3 (SS, 1 ?, Fergusson Island, September 1894, May— June 1807. A. S. Meek 

 coll., Nos. 236, 600. 



2c??, Sudest Island, April 1808. A. S. Meek coll., Nos. 1607, 1783. 



1 ? jun., Trobriand Islaud, 13. iii. 1895. A. 8. Meek coll. 



This specimen has (Nov. Zool. 1896, p. 241) been recorded as Monarcha 

 inornata, but we believe now that it is a young specimen of M. melanojjsis, though 

 it is hardly j)Ossible to say for certain which it may be, the young M. inornata and 

 melanopsis being apparently indistinguishable. 



2 c?c?, 1 ??, Goodenough Island, December 1896. A. S. Meek coll., Nos. 68, 

 69, 73. 



1 cJ, 2 ? ?, Sirabang, German New Guinea., August — September 1899. 

 Nyman coll. 



5. Monarcha periophthalmicus Sharpe. 



MontircJiii periophlhidmifii.'i Sharpe, Juiirn. Linn. Soc. London, Zool. xvi. pp. .^18, 430 (1882 ; S. E. 

 New Guinea). 



Probably only a subspecies of M. /rater. 



1 (apparently not quite adult, with black spots all over the pileum). Mountains 

 ot British New Guinea, 1894. Anthony coll. 



1 "?," Oriori district, 19. i. l.S9o. A. S. Antliony coll. 



3 J (?, 3 ? ? , Avera, Aroa River, 19, 20, 21. i., 26. ii., 19. iii. 1903. A. S. Meek 

 coll., Nos. A ><, 15, 23, 307, 424, 435. " Iris light brown, bill and feet dark 

 slate-blue." 



6. Monarcha frater Scl. 



Manarchn fraler Sdater, /'. Z. H. 187:J. p. Gill (Arfak, Hatam). 



1, Mt. Maori, near Humboldt Hay, January ls90. J. Dumas coll. 



