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are more yellowish on the abdomen and under tail-coverts, and hardly ever show 

 any striping on the nnder snrface. They might therefore be separated nnder the 

 name of P. griseiceps sqiialida Onstalet (Bull. Soc. Philoiiiat. Pun's 1877-1 ST8. 

 p. 56 — terra typica Amberbaki, Berau Peninsula). The binls fi-om Waigiu and 

 Misol (Mysol) might be nnited with arjual/i/u, thongh some — and jierhaps the 

 majority — of the latter show again distinctly the dark shaft-stripes on the feathers 

 of the throat and breast. 



I'll. Eulacestoma nigropectus De Vis. 



Eiilaceslnmn nii/ropertiis De Vis, liepurl vii New Guinea 1893-94, Ornith. Specimens, p. 4 (1894—: 



Mt. Manaeao, Brit. New Guinea). 

 Eulacedomn tiu/ritorqitex (evidently slip of pen) Ogilvie-Grant, Bull. B.O. Cbih viii. 1808. p. x. 

 Eulacestoma vigripectus Sharpe, Handlist B. iy. p. 314 (1903). 

 Eulacestoma nigropectus Sclater, Ibis 1904. pp. 373-5. pi. ix. 



3 ad., 1 jnv. ; Mt. Goliath, 19. ii. 1911. (Nos. 5420, 5421, A. S. Meek Coll.) 



1 S ad., 2 ? ad. ; Avera, Aroa River, May 1903. (Nos. a477, 528, 529, A. S. 

 Meek Coll.) 



S ad. ; Bihagi, head of Mambare River, 31. iii. 1900. (No. a2091, A. S. Meek 

 Coll.) 



" Iris dark brown ; bill black in the cf , horn-colour, light at base of lowei- 

 jaw in the 9, light horn thronghont in the young bird." 



The bill varies much in size, that of the male from Bihagi l^eing innch larger.. 

 Wings of the adult males 08-70, females 70-70o mm. The wings are outwardly 

 margined with olive-rnfous in the adnlt females, the chest shows faint whitish 

 cross-bars. In the young bird (No. 5420) tlie cross-markings of the chest are more 

 distinct, and the npper wing-coverts as well as the margins of the secondaries are 

 bright ferruginous. 



(On one of the skins in the British Museum is a BIS. name by Professor 

 Reichenow, which has never been published.) 



^171. Pachycare fiavogrisea subaurantia Rothsch. & Hart. 



Pachycare Jlavogi-isea subaurantia Rothschild and Hartert, Oru. Monatsi>f'r. xix. p. 157 (Oct. 1911 — 

 Snow Mountains). 



5 c? ad., 2 ? ad., 1 S jnv. ; Snow Mountains, 3000 ft., October and November 

 1910. (Nos. 4848, 4873 [type], 4885, 4895, 4935, 4936, 4941, 4946, A. S. Meek 

 Coll.) 



This brilliantl}' coloured form differs from Pachycare flaroc/risea fiarogrisect 

 by the deeper and more orange colonr of the underside and sides of the head. In 

 the very young female (No. 4941) the colours are paler. Wiugs of the males 

 65-68, females 64-67 mm. 



We have also received a female of Paclu/care Jlacogri^ea from an elevation 

 of 1200 m. in the Rawlinson Mountains, German New Guinea, together with nest 

 and eggs. This bird appears to be very orange underneath, and may belong to 

 P. f. subaurantia, but it is so badly skinned that one can hardly lie quite certaio 

 whether it belongs to P. f. Jiavogrisea or P. f. subaurantia. The two eggs are 

 rather pointed, and in colonr look exactly like small eggs of a Pi/cnoiwtus. Their 

 ground-colour is whitish pink, and tliey are covered all over with rufous pink spots 

 and jiatches. They measure about 21 x 15 mm., but being end-blown (with rather 

 big holes) their length is not absolutely certain. The nest is a large structure 



