(498 ) 



S ? ; Upper Eilandea River, 10. iii. 1911. (Nos. .5.511, 5512, A. S. Meek Coll.) 

 The iris, according to the labels, varies in colonr. It is described as grey, 

 reddish brown, burnt sienna, light brown, and dark red ! 



Heinrich Kiihn marked the iris in specimens from the Am Islands as 

 chocolate, brownish red, and dark greyish brown W. Doherty called it pale 

 scarlet and whitish scarlet, Dr. Lorentz dark brown. We cannot see differences 

 between tliese specimens and others from Aru. Tiie yellow of the lower abdomen 

 and vent is rather brighter in adult birds, paler in young ones. 



119. Gerygone conspicillata subsp. ? 



Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 47.3. 



• cJ ; Lower Setekwa River, 21. xi. 1910. (No. 5022, A. S. Meek Coll.) 



" Iris red ; feet slaty-bine ; bill black." 



This specimen agrees on the whole with G. conspicillata, but the upperside 

 has a greyish tinge. Wing 55 mm. 



J 120. Gerygone (Eugerygone) rubra (Sharpe). 



Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 474. 



2 (?; Mt. Goliath, 18. i., 2. ii. 1911. (Nos. 5134, 5273, A. S. Meek Coll.) 



" Iris dark brown ; bill black, with base light horn-colour ; feet brown and 



yellow." 



The wings of these two birds measure only 58 mm., while in a specimen from 



Mt. Cameron (Owen Stanley Range) they measure 63 mm. 



/l21. Machaerirhynchus flaviventer xanthogenys Gray. 



Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 476 ; 1912 (xix.) p. 201. 



(??; Upper Setekwa River, 1, 9. viii. 1910. (Nos. 4458, 4489, A. S. Meek 

 Coll.) 



? ; Upper Eilanden River, 7. iii. 1911. (No. 5497, A. S. Meek Coll.) 



122. Machaerirhynclius nigripectus saturatus subsp. nov. 



IMacliaerirhi/nrhus nigripectus Sohlegel, Ned. Tijdschr. Dierkunde iv. p. 43 (1871— New Guinea 

 Terra typica : Arfak !) ; Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 476, note.] 



Differs from Arfak specimens in being larger, wings of males 62-5-66, females 

 60-63-5 mm., and the females are darker on the upperside, not fuscous grey (as in 

 Arfak individuals), but deep blackish brown, almost black. Type ? No. 5276, 

 Mt. Goliath, 2. ii. 1911. The males seem to be also rather bright yellow 

 underneath. 



The birds from British New Guinea have been separated by Dr. van Oort as 

 M. II. harterti {Notes Lcyden Mus. xxx. p. 235); they have the wings as long 

 as in satiiratvs, but the females are not so blackish on the upperside as those of 

 the latter, and the underside is brighter yellow. 



Of M. niyripectiis saturatus Mr. Meek sent us: 



4 (?, 6 ?; Mt. Goliath, January, February, and March 1911. (Nos. 5130 

 5184, 5227, 5238, 5276, 5277, 5295, 54U7, 5424, 5498, A. S. Meek Coll.) 



" Iris dark brown : bill and feet black." 



