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85. Caprimulgus macrurus macrurus Horsf. 



Cf. Nov. Zool. 10O3. p. 202 ; van Oort, Nova Guinea ix. i. p. 81. 



3 c?, 1 ? ; Upper Setekwa River, July— September 1910. (Nos. 4394, 4499, 

 4515, 4542, A.. S. Meek Coll.) 



86. Collocalia whitehead! Grant. 



Collocalia whiteheadi Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis, 1895, p. 459 (Palawan, Luzon). 



? ad. ; Mt. Goliath, not less than 5000 ft., 27. i. 1911. (No. 5208, A. S. Meek 

 Coll.) 



" Iris dark brown ; bill and feet black." 



J '87. Collocalia fuciphaga fuciphaga (Thimb.). 



Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 202 : van Oort, Nova Guinea ix., Zool. i. p. 82. 



? ; Lower Setekwa River, 19. xi. 1910. (No. 5010, A. S. Meek Coll.) 



3 c?, 1 ? ; Upper Setekwa River, July— September 1910. (Nos. 4325, 4438, 



4470, 4533, A. S. Meek Coll.) 



c?; Snow Mts., 2000 fr., 25. viii. 1910. (No. 4627, A. S. Meek Coll.) 



Mr. Oberholser has recently separated a number of new local forms of 



C. fuciphaga, but without his material for comparison we cannot give an opinion 



on the validity of these forms. 



V 88. Chaetura caudacuta caudacuta (Lath.). 



Uirundo caudacukt Latham, Ind. Orn. Suppl. p. 57 (1801 — Australia). 



? ; Upper Setekwa River, 8. xi. 1910. (No. 4548, A. S. Meek Coll.) 

 2 ^, 1 ?; Snow Mountains, 3000-5000 ft., November 1910. (Nos. 4930 

 4931, 4932, A. S. Meek Coll.) 



V 89. Chaetura novaeguineae D'Alb. & Salvadori. 



Chaetura tiovaeguineae D'Albertis and Salvadori, Ann. Miis. Genova, xiv. p. 55 (1879 — Fly Eiver). 



5 (J, 2 ? ; Upper Setekwa River, August and November 1910. (Nos. 4366, 

 4440, 4478, 4479, 4969, 4984, A. S. Meek Coll.) 



This species was hitherto only known from a single specimen. After Mr. 

 Meek's rediscovery of this species it was also found, by members of the B. 0. U. 

 Expedition to New Guinea, on the Mimika River. 



90. Macropteryx mystacea mystacea (Less.). 



Cypnelwi nii/HtaceuK Lesson, Voi/. Co(iuille, Zool., Atlas, pi. 22 (1826— New Guinea) ; van Oort, Nom 

 Guinea ix. i. p. 82. 



? ; Setekwa River, 28. vi. 1910. (No. 4221, A. S. Meek Coll.) 



? ; Lower Setekwa River, 20. .xi. 1910. (No. 5037, A. S. Meek Coll.) 



'^91. Mellopitta gigantea Rothsch. 



iJni. .Wimiituher, IH'M. p. LIT (" Mt. M:iori," west of Humboldt Hay, north coast of New 

 Guinea). 

 The type specimen had the rump and upper tail-coverts as well as the greater 

 part of the abdomen, llauks and thighs niibus brown ; the facts that the brown 



