( 520 ) 

 200. Munia tristissima Wjill. 



Miinia tristissima Wallace, Proc. Zonl. Soc. Loud. 1865. p. 479 (N.W. Peninsula of New Guinea). 



7 <? ? ; Upper Setekwa River, Jnly and August 1910. (Nos. 4439, 4453, 4463, 

 4464, 4465, 4460, 4467, A. S. Meek Coll.) 



" Iris dark brown ; bill and feet slaty bine." 



We have also two skins from Dorey, one from the hills near Humboldt Bay, 

 and five from the Knmnsi River in the northernmost part of north-eastern British 

 New Guinea. 



^ 201. Gymnocorvus senex (Less.). 



Cf. -Vor. Zfiol. ItlOS. p. 91 ; van Oort, Nora Guinea, ix. i. p. '.»;). 



(?; Snow Mountains, 3000 ft., 3. xi. 191(». (No. 4949, A. S. Meek Coll.) 

 " Iris light blue ; feet chalk white ; bill flesh-colour." 



\l 202. Phonygammus keraudrenii keraudrenii (Less. & Garn.). 



Barita Keraudrenii Lesson and Gamier, Ferussac's Bull. Sri. Nat. et Geol. viii. p. 110 (1826 — New- 

 Guinea ; terra typica Dorey) ; cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. pp. 86, 87 ; van Oort, Nora Guinea ix. 

 Zool. i. p. 104. 



S ad. ; Ui)per Setekwa River, 30. vii. 1910. (No. 4449, A. S. Meek Coll.) 



1 ? ad., 2 ? jnn., 1 ? juv. ; Snow Monntains, 2000 ft., August— October 1910. 

 (Nos. 4612, 4690', 4811, 4823, A. S. Meek Coll.) 



(? ad. ; Eilanden River, 16. xii. 1910. (No. 5075, A. S. Meek tloll.) 



? juv. ; Upper Eilanden River, 4. iii. 19 1 1. (No. 5476, A. S. Meek Coll.) 



S No. 5075 is slightly smaller than S 4449. 



(Mr. 0<^ilvie-Graut records P. keraudremi jameai as obtained by the Good- 

 fellow expedition, but our specimens do not belong to that form.) 



A character hitherto not mentioned by us is the greater length and width of 

 the hackles on the neck and breast in P. k. jamesi. 



, 2o3. Manucodia chalybata orientalis Salvad. 



Cf. Nor. Zool. 1903. p. 85 ; van Oort, Nora Guinea ix., Zoul. i. p. 103. 



4 c? ad., 1 ? ad., 2 i , \ "i jnn. : Snow Monntains, 2000, 2500, 3000 ft, 

 August— November 1910. (Nos. 4559, 4597, 4856, 4937, 4952, 4953, 4603, 4716, 

 A. S. Meek Coll.) 



j 204. Manucodia chalybata? 



i ; Upper Setekwa River, 15. xi. 1910. (No. 5002, A. S. Meek Coll.) 

 This specimen is not quite adnlt, and differs from our immature examples 

 of M. rliabjhata orientalis in the absence of the velvety terminal bars to the dorsal 

 feathers, thus giving the appearance of tlie back of Manucoilia atra, though of 

 a glossy purple, not greenish blue colour. \Vhether this is merely an abnormal 

 specimen, or a hybrid, cannot be decided from this single specimen. 

 J \Manucoclia jobiensis Salvadori was treated as a subspecies by one of us in the 

 Ibix, 1911, p. 367, but the Goodfellow expedition obtained both M. cliali/hata, 

 orientalis audjobiensis at Pariman, therefore we must return to the former view, 

 that .1/. chalybata and jobiensis are good species. Cf Tierreich, I'nradiseidae, 

 pp. 44, 45, and Soc. Zool. 1903, p. 86.] 



