( 475 ) 



This specimen agrees perfeetly witli tlie deseriptions given by Drs. Sharpe 

 and Firjscb. It lias a distinct white line across the base of the forehead, as 

 originally described by Dr. Sharjae, while Dr. Finsch thinks this is saying too 

 nmcli. The tail is imperfect. According to Finsch this would be the second 

 known example in Europe. The wings are a little damaged by shots, but I 

 measure them 02 — 63 mm. 



1 c? (in moult), Avera, Aroa River, 3. vi. 1903. (No. A 598.) "Iris dark 

 bruwn, feet smoky yellow, bill black and smoky brown." 



The tail is black, the two outer rectrices with wide white tips. The white line 

 on the forehead is cons}iicuous. 



■:"' ¥," Mountains of Kotoi district, August 21 st, 1898. A. S. Anthony coll. 

 Above olive-green, a yellowish line across the base of the forehead, ear-coverts 

 yellowish bnff with jialer shafts, underside pale yellow, washed with olive- 

 greenish on the sides. Wings witliout a white bar, tail consisting of three 

 feathers only, none of which has any white. We do not know if this is the 

 female of E. rubra, but it agrees with the latter in its dimensions and has a 

 peculiar pale yellow line across the base of the forehead, reminding one of the 

 white line there in E. rubra. 



78. Cryptolopha* poliocephala (Salvad.). 



Gerygime (,?) jinlioieplicilii SalvaJori, Ann. .Uu.i. Cir. Gen. vii. p. 960 (1875 : Arfak) 



1 ? , Arfak, 23. v. Bruijn coll. 



79. Cryptolopha g'iulianettii (Salvad.). 



Gerygone giuliaiieUii Salvadori, Ann. Mun. Civ. Geii. (2) xvi. p. 81 (1896: Moriika). 



4, Aroa River, British New Guinea. E. Weiske coll. 

 80. Cryptolopha maforensis (Mey.). 



Geryi/one mafcimish A. B. Mej'er, Sitzunyshn-. /./.. Akiid. iVissensch. Wien Ixx. p. 119 (1874 : 



Mafor). 

 Gerygone {?) iiuiforennis Salvadori, Orn. Pap. ii. p. 103. 



2 (?cJ, Mafor, May 1897. W. Doherty coll. 



81. Aethomyias spilodera spilodera (Gray). 



Entomolphilu {?) spilodera G. R. Gray, P. Z. S. 1859. p. 155 (Dorey). 

 2 cfc?. Dorey, October 1896. W. Doherty coll. 

 1 d, Takar, November 1896. W. Doherty (»11. 

 2, near Humboldt Bay. J. M. Dumas coll. 

 1, Mt. Maori, near Humboldt Bay, .lannary 1899. J. M. Dumas coll. 



82. Aethomyias spilodera guttata Sharjie. 



Ai-lliiimiiiax yiitliila Sharpe, Juurn. Linn. Hor., Znnl. xvi. p. 4.S2 (1882 : S.E. New Guinea). 



4 cJcJ, 1 ?, Avera, Aroa River, February—March 1903. A. S. Meek coll., 

 Nois. A 324, 360, 443, 447, 455. " Iris dull red (light red, ? pale chocolate), 

 feet Hmoky slate (smoky brown), hill light brown (hurn-colour)." 



Some of the typical spilodera (Dorey) are hardly disHiignislialile trdin (j/ittatu. 



• Hee footnote p. 473. Kalvaduri { Orn. Pap. ii. i>. 10:i) remarks already tliat tliiti is uol a typical 

 Oeryyenr, but resembles closely Abrornit polyuyenyx, our present Cryptolophn polymjcnyt, whieli is 

 quite true. 



