( 470 ) 



This form is only known from the Art'ak monntains, and Mr. Sharpe's locality, 

 S.E. New Guinea, of course refers to the following form. This mistake would 

 have been avoided by the proper use of trinomials. 



56. Poecilodryas cyanus subcyanea De Vis. 



Poecilodryas snbci/onea De Vis, /'"■.-■ 1S97. p. 377 (S.E. New Guinea). 



Poecilodryifs ri/aitnx sdlrndorii Rothsch. & ll;irt., Bull. B. 0. C. xi. p. 2li (February 1900: Mts. 



Cameron, Scratcbley, etc.). 

 Pofi?ilo(fri/a.< ci/ttimp^is Sharpe, Hitiid-liAt iii. p. 2-i.'J (11)01 : uonien emend, for P. snlrn'fnrif, which 



name had already been used in January 1900 by Madarasz). 



1 S, Mt. Cameron, TUOO ft., 15. viii. 1896. A. S. Anthony ooll. '■ Iris brown, 

 feet and bill black." Type of P. c. salcadorii R. & H.) 



1 ?, Mt. Cameron, Took ft,., 15. viii. ls'.i6. A. S. Anthony coll. 



1 ad., 1 juv., Mt. iScratchley. (The yoiuig in first ]>lumage is slate-colour with 

 buff shaft-lines and large rusty-cinnamon tips to the feathers of the body, wings 

 and tail blackish, wing-coverts like the feathers of the back.) 



1 ad., Kotoi district, August 18US. A. iS. Anthony coll. 



1 ad., Eata district, iniMi— 3(Mm ft. A. S. Anthony coll. 



1 immature, Aroa River. Emil Weiske coll. 



2 ad.. Mountains of British New Guinea. Brail Weiske coll. 



1 c? ad., 1 ? ad., Avera, Aroa River, 4, 5. iii. KM)3. A. S. Meek coll., 

 Nos. A 369, 36(1. 



1 ad., Amberuoh River, I'ntch New Guinea. J. M. Dumas coll. 



57. Poecilodryas sigillata I'e Vis. 



Paecilntlri/as siqillntn De Vis., Aim. Rep. Biil. Xeir Giiiuni, Birds p. 59 (1890 : Mt. Victoria), 

 (Dr. Sharpe in llnml-Ust iii. p. 23."). No. 13 says that Porcilndri/dx minor A. B. Meyer, 1884, is, 

 according to Finsch, in litt., the same as P. sigillata. If Dr, Finsch really said this, he can 

 never have read the descriptions of either, for P. sigiUala is entirely black, except the greater 

 part of the innermost secondaries, wliich are white ; while P. minor has the under surface 

 white, and is, in fact, nothing but P. In/fiohi/i-ii '^ and .iuv.). 



1, Mt, Scratchley, 



3 (JcJ, 1 ?, Mt. Knutsford, 11, (llllj ft. (" barometer reading"), 8,18,20,21. 

 viii. 1898. A. S. Anthony coll. " Iris, bill, feet black." 



1 (?) near Port Moresby. (Purchased in London.) 



58. Poecilodryas placens (Rams.). 



Enpsaltrin plaren.f Ramsay, Proe. Linn. Sor. X. S. W'llfs, iii. p. 272 (1879: S.E. New Guinea, 



Goldie River, Broadbent coll.). 

 Poeeil . fiuvicinctii Sharpe, Ann. Mug. Not. Hist. (5) iii. p. 313 (1879 : S.E. New Guinea). 



1 S, 2 ? ?, Mt. Cameron, 3000 ft., 15, 16. viii. 1896. A. IS. Anthony coll. 

 " Iris brown, feet yellow, bill black." 



1, Kotoi district, Augdst 1898. A. S. Anthony coll. 

 1, Brown River, 1898. Emil Weiske coll. 



59. Microeca papuana A. B. Meyer. 



Microeca papitana A. B. Meyer, Sitzungsber. Gcs. his 187.5. p. 74 (Arfak). 



Microeca mridijlara Rothsch. & Ilartert, Bull. B. 0. C. xi. pp. 26. 44 (1900 : Mt. Cameron). 



6, Aroa River, December ls90— .January 1900. E. Weiske coll. 

 1 ?, Aroa River, 4000 ft, December !s9!). E. Weiske coll "Iris and 

 bill black, feet yellow." 



