/196. Ptilotis analoga analoga Rchb. 



Ptilntis analoga Reichenbach, Ilandh. xpec. Orii. " Meropinae," p. 103. pi. 4()7 (18.i'2 — Ex "Ptilotis 

 analogue " Hombron and Jacquinot, Voi/. Pule Siul, pi. .wii. Terra typica : " W. coast of New 

 Guinea "). 



Ptilotis analoga analoga Rothschild and Hartert, Nov. Zool. liMIS. p. 441. 



" S" but obviously ?, the wing measuring only 76 mm. ; Merauke, 4. vi. 1910 

 (A. S. Meek Coll., without number). 



6 juu. ; Snow Mountains, 2. ix. 1910. (No. 4698, A. S. Meek Coll.) 



Through the kindness of Professor Trouessart we have been able to compare 

 the type of the " Ptilotis analogue," wliich is also the type of Ptilotis similis 

 Jacquinot and Pucheran, and of P. analoga Reichenbach, and we find it to agree 

 with tiie birds we used to call Ptilotis analoga. Tlie wings of the males measure 

 apparently SU-87 and sometimes eveu 90 mm., those of the females 72-77 mm. 

 We say " apjiarently," as so many of our birds are evidently wrongly sexed, that 

 we had to correct the sexes in many cases, but in any case the wings vary from 72 

 to 87, and even 90 mm. 



With these birds, the real P, analoga analoga, we used to unite the Cape York 

 bird, i.e. Gould's P. notata, but this was not correct. 



The Cape York Peninsula is inhabited by birds with much stouter beaks and 

 feet and an indistinctly streaked or mottled, not quite uniform, nnder-surface ; the 

 feathers have grey shaft-stripes. The wings measure : 80-87 mm., those with wings 

 of 8K-82 evidently being females, those with 87 males. This is Gould's P. notata., 

 and it must be kept separate, though we are by no means sure that it is a subspecies- 

 of analoga, and it will be safer not to call it so at present. 



Together with Ptilotis notata we find a smaller form, Gould's P. graciliSf 

 which difi'ers from P. notata by its smaller size, finer bill and feet, a uniform under- 

 side and paler upper surface. The wings measure, c? 76, females 70-72 mm. 

 These birds must be a subspecies of P. analoga. They are, in fact, in some cases 

 almost indistinguishable, though it seems that they are generally paler on the 

 npperside, and never reach the size of adult males of i-*. analoga. 



/197. Ptilotis mimikae Grant. 



Plilolix luiniihae Ogilvie-Grant, Bull. li. 0. Club xxix. p. 27 (Miinika River, foot of Snow 

 Mountains). 



cf, ?, ? imraat. ; Snow Mountains, October 1910. (Nos. 48.50, 4869, 4900, 

 A. S. Meek Coll.) 



1 6 ad., 2 ? ad., 1 ? immat. ; Upper Setekwa River, July 1910. (Nos. 4294,. 

 4332, 43i56, 4:i.57, A. S. Meek Coll.) 



" Iris dark brown or ashy grey ; bill black ; feet slaty-blue." 



These birds are curiously near to P. orieiitalis A. B. Meyer, but differ by their 

 larger size and comj)aratively stouter and less ehingated bills. The wings of our 

 adult males measure only 78'5 and 88 mm., while tiiat of tlie (apparently excep- 

 tionally large) S from the Upper Aroa River (cf. Nov. Zool. 1907, p. 482) has a. 

 wing of 96 mm., but Mr. Ogilvie-Grnnt measures the wings of his male examples 

 81-91 mm. 



We havcMilso received two females from the U]i[)er Setekwa River, 4. and 12. vii. 

 1910 (Nos. 427:! and 4:i45, A. S. Meek Coll.). Uotii are apjiarently udt cpute adult. 

 They agree with the females of Ptilotis mimikae in size, colour nf upjierside and 



