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221. Amblyornis inornatus musgravii Goodwin. 



[PtHoiwrhynchus hiornotiix Scblegel, Nederl. Tijdschr. Dierk. iv. p. 51 (1873 — Arfak).] 



Amblyornis muFgrarii Goodwin, Prnc. Zool. Soc. 1889. p. 451 (Mt. Musgrave ; attempt to 



diagnose). 

 Amblyornis musgrariamis Goodwin, Jois, 18il0. p. 15.S (Mount Musgrave). 

 Amblyornis nmrgregoritif de Vis. Report on British New Guinea 1888-89, App. C. pp. ll.S, 115 



(1890— Mount Musgrave). 



? ad. ; Snow Mountains, 23. x. 1910. (No. 4876, A. S. Meek Coll.) 



3 cj, 6 ? ad.; Mt. Goliath, January and February 1911. (Nos. 5090, 5113, 

 5259, 6260, 5331, 5373, 5379, 5468, 5469, A. S. Meek Coll.) 



cJ ad : " Iris dark brown ; bill black above, horn-colour beneath ; feet dark 

 slate." 



When one of ns wrote the Paradlseidae, in No. 2 of the Tierreich, he united the 

 form from British New Guinea with the typical A. inornatus from Arfak, the adult 

 male of which was unknown till 1894. He did this on the comparison of the orange 

 crests as, at the time, the small number of specimens available made the more 

 rufous shade of the Arfak binls a])pear a doubtful character. As we now have ten 

 adult males and eight males without crests and females from the Arfak region, and 

 fifteen adnlt males and fourteen females or males without crests from British New 

 Guinea, the Snow Mountains and Mt. Goliath for comparison, it is clear that the 

 Arfak birds have a decidedly more rufous tinge above and below, while those from 

 the other localities are more olive above and duller below. Therefore we are of the 

 opinion that these forms should be separated as subspecies. 



In October 1910 Ambli/ornis subalaris germamts from the Rawlinson Mountains 

 was described (Bull. B. 0. Club, xxvii. p. 13). The chief reason for treating it as 

 a subspecies of A. subalaris was the small size and an imperfect and distorted crest 

 of a male. Later on we received a full-plumaged male, which distinctly proves that 

 germanus is a form of A. inornata and not of subalaris, being distinguished from 

 A. inornata musgrai-ii by its still more accentuated olive shade as well as its small 

 size. 



Thus the genus Amblijornis consists now of the following forms : 



1. Amblyornis subalaris Sharpe : British New Guinea. 



2. ,, flacifroiis Rothsch. : Dutch New Guinea. 



3. ,, inornatus inornatus (Schleg.) : Arfak Peninsula. 



4. ,, inornatus ?nusgram Goodwin : Central Dutch and British New 

 Guinea, as far north as Mt. Batchelor on the British frontier of German New Guinea 

 (<i ad. in the Munich Museum examined, for the loan of which we are obliged to 

 Mr. Hellmayr). 



5. Amhli/ornis inornatus germanus Uothsch. ; Rawlinson Mountains, Huon Gulf, 

 (ierman New Guinea. 



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222. Ailuroedus melanotis melanocephalus Rams. 



Aeliirijnius melanocppbalus Ramsay, I'roi;, lAnn. Soc. N.S. Wales, viii. p. 25 (1K83— Owen Stanley 

 Range). 



2 (?, 4 ? ; Snow Mountains, 2000 to 3000 ft., August to November 1910. 

 (NoH. 4577, 4601, 4650, 4727, 4854, 4948, A. ». Meek Coll.) 

 " Iris red ; fei't and liiU jiale slaty-blue." 



