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brown, ontwardl}- margined with olive-brown, lighter on the ontermost ones, narrow 

 inner edges greyish buff. Rectrices dark brown, widely margined with rufons- 

 olive, and with a wide subterminal black bar. Lores and ear-coverts olive-brown, 

 only a faint shade paler than the crown, aronnd the eye an indication of a pale and 

 more yellowish ring. C!hin, throat, and chest brownish buff, abdomen olive-yellow, 

 flanks more olive. Under tail-coverts yellowish buff. Under wing-coverts dull 

 brownish yellow. 



"Iris dark brown (and grey) ; feet brown, toes orange-yellowish ; bill blackish 

 horn-colour, base of lower jaw ]ialer." 



Wings .'i4'.5 and 55, tail 39, tarsus 20, culmen, 12'5 mm. 



Type : ¥ , Mt. Goliath, 8. ii. 1911. (No. 5338, A. S. Meek Coll.) 



2 ? ; Mt. Goliath, 31. i. and 8. ii. 1911. (Nos. .5252, 5338, A. S. Meek Coll.) 

 In the Leydeu Museum is a female from an elevation of 2600 m. on the 



Hellwig Mountains, collected by Dr. H. A. Lorentz, which is very similar to 

 >S'. meekl on the upperside, but brownish buff underneath. It seems to be a young 

 bird, and might perhaps belong to <S. mee/ii. 



144. Sericornis? 

 i juv. ; Snow Mountains, 5. viii. 1910. (No. 4576, A. S. Meek Coll.) 

 This is a perfectly young bird, evidently a Sericornis, but it does not agree 

 with any of the species we are acquainted with. The bill is black, iris " light grey." 

 Upper surface dull olive-green, underside pale yellow, throat and chest with olive- 

 grey longitudinal spots. 



'' 145. Amalocichla brevicauda (De Vis). 

 Cf. xYoii. Zool. 1903. p. 22G ; 1907. p. 4(55. 



c?; Mt. Goliath, 4. ii. 1911. (No. 5297, A. S. Meek Coll.) 

 The specimen agrees with our series from the monntains of British New 

 Guinea, but the upperside and breast are a shade darker. It would be interesting 

 to compare a series from Mt. Goliath. The young bird is spotted like a young 

 thrush. 



J 146. Androphilus viridis Kothsch. & Hart. 



Aiulrophilus virhlh Rothschild and Hartert, Bull. B.O. Club, xxix. p. 33 (December 1911— 

 Mt. Goliath). 



6 ; Mt. Goliath, 9. ii. 1911. (No. 5346, A. S. Meek Coll.) 



The description of the single specimen in the Bull. B.O. Club is as follows : 

 " Upperside olive-green, the feathers being browner iu the middle and at the base, 

 upper tail-coverts slightly browner ; quills deep brown, outer edges green, like the 

 back ; tail greenish olive ; sides of head and neck like the back ; a short white 

 malar stripe ; throat and chest black, rest of uuderside olive-green. Iris dark 

 brown ; bill black : feet vandyke-brown. Culmen 15, wing 60, tail 72, tarsus 

 26 mm." ^ 



' 147. Ifrita coronata Kothsch. 



Cf. Bull. 11.0. Club May 1898 ; Nov. Zool. vi. pi. iii. ; Nnv. Zoul. 1903. p. 22G, 1907. p. 4(55. 



3 cJ, 8 ? ; Mt. Goliath, up to 5000 ft., January and February 1911. (Nos. 5118, 

 i)119, 5154, 5182, 5198, 5213, 5262, 5329, 5366, 5405, 5452, A. S. Meek Coll.) 



As we have stated before, the males have a white, the females a buff 

 superciliary line ; moreover the males are larger, wings 84-87, females smaller, 

 wings 79-81 mm. 



