(467 ) 



44. Muscicapa griseisticta (iSwiuh ). 

 2 S<S, Pigen Island in St. David's or Mafia gionp, north of Dntch New 

 Guinea, October isitfi. W. Doherty coll. 



45. Megalestes albonotatus Salvad. 



ilKjah'slfs (dbonntiUm Salvadori, Ann. Mns. Civ. Gen. vii. p. 770 (1S75 : Mt. Arfak). 



2, Arfak. From Messrs. James Veitch & Sons, collected hy Bourke. 

 (Purchased from Gerrard.) 



2 6<S, 1 ?, Mt. Cameron, 6000—70110 ft., 10, 22. viii. 1*^9(5. A. S. Anthony 

 coll. " Iris, bill and feet black." 



1 cf, Aroa River, 5000 ft., January I'.Mio. E. AVeiske coll. 



1, Upper Brown River. E. Weiske coll. 



1 S ad., Avera, Aroa River, 28. i. imX A. S. Meek coll., No. A 131. 

 "Iris light brown, bill and feet black." 



1 c? juv., Avera, Aroa River, 24. ii. 19o;{. A. S. Meek coll., No. A 284. 

 " Iris iron-grey, bill and feet black." 



This yonng bird has its [ilnmage aliove and below mi.xfd with jiale cinnamon 

 feathers, evidently showing that the young in first ]ihimage is pale ciimamon all 

 over. The genus Megalestes should be kept separate from Poecilodryas, chiefly 

 on account of its broader and flatter bill. 



46. Heteromyias armiti (De Vis). 

 (PI. XIII., fig. 3.) 



Popcilnilryas arniili De Vis, Report Brit. New Guinea (Birds) p. 8 (spec. 33) (1894 ; Mt. Maneao). 



1, Mt. Cameron, 8. i.\. 189fi. A. S. Anthony coll. 

 1, Upper Brown River. Emil Weiske coll. 



2 c? cJ, 2 ? ?, Avera, Aroa River, May, June 1903. A. S. Meek coll., Nos. 

 A 488, 515, 540, 594. "Iris brown, feet (light) horn-colour, bill black (with 

 light tip and gonys)." 



47. Petroica bivittata De Vis. 



Pflroha linuUiiki De Vis, Ibis 1897. p. 97 (Mt. Scratchley ; one ? ). 



2 S6 (one marked ? erroneously), 1 ?, Mt. Knutsford, 11,000 ft, 20. viii. 

 1898. A. 8. Anthony coll. " Iris Ijrown-black, bill black, feet black." 



The male.<< have the nj)perside, throat and chest black, with a slight gloss. 

 The wings agree with De Vis' description, except that the primary coverts have 

 nn white bar. The tail, of which no mention is maile in De Vis' description, 

 is black, the outer pairof rectriees with a huge wedge-shaped white mark occupying 

 the greater part of the distal half, the following two with small white tips. 

 Abdomen, under tail-coverts, under wing-coverts and a.villaries white, the bases 

 of the featliers white. The fi'imilr is not. black, but slate-colour, the outer 

 rectrii^es have the outer web and tip only white, otherwise like the mak. 



We presume that this is De Vis' P. bimttata, as no other Petroica from 

 New Guinea is known to us, although he describes the primary coverts as 

 having a white bar, and makes no mention of the tail ! 



