( 495 ) 



and its back is a little darker, otherwise there appears to be no ditference between 

 the sexes. The skins from Mt. Goliath agree perfectly with those from the Aroa, 

 Mambare and Angabunga Rivers in British New Guinea. 



' 106. Ehipidura atra Salvad. 



Cf. Nov. Zoo!. 1903. p. 465. 



1 S jav. in the first rnfons plumage, 1 S .jnn. changing from the rnfous into 

 the blade plumage ; Snow Mountains, 2500 and 3000 ft., 4. viii. and 20. x. 1910. 

 <Nos. 4570, 4863, A. S. Meek Coll.) 



3 c? ad., 3 ? ; Mt. Goliath, January 1911. (Nos. 5092, 5115, 5190, 5200, 

 5396, 5443, A. S. Meek Coll.) 



"Iris dark brown ; feet dark brown ; bill : upper black, lower flesh-colonr." 



107. Rhipidura hyperythra mtilleri Meyer. 



[Rhipidura hyperythra Gray, Proc. Zonl. Soc. Land., 1858. p. 176. Aru Islands !] 



Rhij)i(lura rufirfnlris MuUer (nee Vieillot !), Verh. Nat. Gesch. Ned. Ind. Land- en Volkenk. p. 185 



(1839-44— Lobo !) 

 Rhipidura MiiUeri A. B. Meyer, HUzuiigsber. k. Ak. Wiss. Wien Ixix. p. 502 (1874— New name for 



rufiventris, no description. Terra typica for the name mulleri therefore = Lobo !) 



There appear to be three races at least of Rhipichira hjperijthra : one from 

 the Aru Islands, with nearly the whole throat slate-black, merely a chin-spot 

 being white, one from the Mountains of British New Guinea with more white on 

 the chin, the greater part of the throat being white, and with a larger white patch 

 to the rectrices — 14-17 mm. in the outer pair, against 11-12 in typical hyperythra, 

 and a third from various parts of Dutch New Guinea, with the throat generally 

 not quite so far white as in the birds from British New Guinea, viz. Ramsay's 

 castaneotkorax, and the tips to the rectriees small, those of the outer pairs being 

 white for 7-10 mm. These latter birds must apparently be called mulleri, which 

 is a new name for rufimiitrii. Of this last form we had four from near Humboldt 

 Bay, collected by Mr. Dumas, and Meek now sent us : 



4 c?, 2 ? from the Snow Mountains, 250U-3000 ft., August and September 

 1910. (Nos. 4588, 4599, 4620, 4706, 4707, 4892, A. S. Meek Coll.) 



'108. Rhipidura rufidorsa Mey. 

 Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 465. 



? ; Setekwa River, 22. vi. 1910. (No. 4215, A. S. Meek Coll.) 

 4c??; Upper Setekwa River, 25. vii., 16. viii., 12. xi. 1910. (Nos. 4425, 4579, 

 4520, 4980, A. S. Meek Coll.) 



5 ; Snow Mountains, 200U ft., 14. x. 1910. (No. 4844, A. S. Meek Coll.) 



The species of the genus Rhipidura are, as in many other geuera, unnaturally 

 grouped in the lland-lixt of Birds, and it would be very useful if some one could 

 find the time to rearrange them. 



109. Microeca flavovirescens Gray. 



Cf. Noo. Zool. 1903. p. 471 ; van Oort, Nora (Ininea ix. i. p. 83. 



3 (?, 3 ? ; Upper Setekwa River, July and August 1910. (Nos. 4278, 4331, 

 4351, 4354, 4395, 4512, A. S. Meek Coll.) 



? ; Upper Eilanden River, 6. iii. 1911. fNo. 5489, A. S. xMeek Coll.) 



" Iris dark brown ; feet yellow ; bill : upper black, lower yellow, white at base.' 



