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1 <S, Milne Bay, 10. ii. 1899. A. S. Meek coll., No. 2292. 



2 (S<S, Avera, Aroa River, 0, 21. iii. 1903. A. S. Meek coll., Nos. A 365, 442. 



1 (not. sexed), Mountains of British New Guinea. Weiske coll. 



3 (?c?, Ka])aiir, December 1896, January 1897. W. Doherty coll. 



2 cJ ¥ , Wokau, Am Is., 27. ix. 1900. H. Kiihn coll. 



We see absolutely no difference between specimens from Mysol, New Guinea, 

 and the Am Is. 



92. Malurus alboscapulatus Mey. 



Mulurus o/h.,sriijmhi/iis A. B. Meyer, Sitxber. h. Ahid. Wien Ixix. p. 49G (1874 : Arfak Mts.). 



1 cJ ad., Arfak, June 1874. Bniiju coll. (Sjiecimen b of Salvadori'.s list, 

 Orn. Pap. ii. p. 120.) 



3 (Jc? ad., 4 ? ¥ ad., 1 ¥ immat., 1 qnite yonng., Takar, October — November 

 1896. W. Doherty coll. (The young bird is sooty-brown all over, without any 

 white at all. Salvador! describes a pullns (sex ?) as white below. 



1 c?, Stephansort, 22. xii. 1898. E. Nyman coll. 



1 c? ad., 1 c? immat., 1 ¥ ad., Sirabaug, 22, 25. viii., 1. ix. 1899. E. Nyman 

 coll. 



1 "¥ ," Friedricb Wilhelms Hafen, 17. x. 1899. E. Nyman coll. 



It is with some hesitation that we identify this last specimen with ^f. albo- 

 scapulatus. It agrees fully with the description of M. naimii Salvadori, which he 

 afterwards considered to be the female of alboscapulatus. Doherty's and Nyman's 

 carefully sexed specimens, however, show doubtless that the feimilc resembles the 

 male, except that it is slightly smaller (wing aliout 2 mm. shorter) and less glossy, 

 more sooty -black, and the wings brownish instead of pure black. On the other 

 hand, a sjiecimen of the following subspecies from Sogere (Forbes coll.) i.s below 

 mixed black and white. What then are the birds with white underside ? They 

 can liardly belong to a different sjiecies, nor are they, in the face of the pullns 

 from Takar, the young ; nevertheless Salvador! describes a pullns from Naiabui 

 as white below. (Perhaiis the female is dimorphic.) 



93. Malurus alboscapularis naimii Salvad & d'Alb. 



Malurus iiaintii Salvador! & d'Albertis, Ann. Mn.s. Cii: Gen. vii. p. 827 (1875 : Mon, S. New 



Guinea). 

 The name iminiii must be used for tbe soutbern race, tbough based on a bird witb white underside, 



unless the latter belong to a different species. 

 Southern birds are smaller: wing in the imihx from Arfak and Takar ."iO — 51, in those from 



German New Guinea 4y — 51, in those from British New Guinea only 47 -48 mm. 



4 '"cJcJ" (1 apparently a ¥ ), Milne Bay, October — November 1898, January 

 1899. A. S. Meek coll., Nos. 2100, 2159, 2160, 220.5. "Iris brown (dark), bill 

 and feet black." 



1 (J, Collingwood Bay, 29. vi. 1897. A. S. Meek coll.. No. 6.s3. 



1 <?, Avera, Aroa River, 3. iii. 1903. A. S. Meek coll.. No. A 349. 



1 (not sexed), Kotoi district, August 1898. Anthony coll. 



1, Mountains of British New Guinea. (Native coll.) 



1 " ¥ ," Sogere, 26. x. 1885. Dr. H. O. Forbes coll., No. 65. 



