ON THE GENUS MYZOMELA. 77 



Salvador!, the figure is taken. As yet, I believe, it has only occurred 

 near Menado; and the young and female remain unknown, or at least 

 undescribed. 



Myzomela chloroptera resembles the Australian M. sanguinolenta, but is 

 a smaller bird, and also differs in the smaller extent of the red on the 

 chest, and in that colour being more intense, the abdomen yellower, and 

 the wings and tail not so black. The black anteocular spot is less 

 conspicuous. 



In his original description Lord Tweeddale remarks that this bird 

 nearly resembles plate 54 of the ' Oiseaux Dores,' vol. ii., representing 

 " L'Heorotaire ecarlate " from the " South Seas," taken from a drawing 

 of a bird in the Leverian Museum. The figure certainly corresponds 

 very fairly with this species, but, from the locality given, is probably 

 intended for the Australian one (M. sanguinolenta). 



4. MYZOMELA ADOLPHXN^. (Plate II. fig. 3.) 



Myzomela adolphince, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. vii. p. 946 (1875). 



cJ pallio, dorso superiore, alis caudaque olivaceo-fuscis, tectricibus 

 alarum, remigibus et rectricibus externe subtiliter olivaceo limbatis ; 

 capite uropygioque coccineis ; macula anteoculari nigra ; corpore subtus 

 flavido-albido, pectore grisescenti lavato ; subalaribus et remigum mar- 

 gine interna albis ; rostro nigricante, pedibus corneis. Long. tot. circa 

 3*5, al. 2'2, caud. 1'5, rostr. *45, tars. '5 (poll. Angl.). 

 5 minor ; femince Myzomelse boiaei similis. 

 Hab. in montibus Arfak. 



This is one of the numerous discoveries of Beccari and Bruijn in the 

 Arfak Mountains, and only a few specimens have as yet been obtained. 

 Count Salvadori writes (1. s. c.) : " This species resembles M. erythro- 

 cepliala of Grould, but differs from it in its much smaller dimensions, by 

 the very slight olive tint of the back, and by the lower parts being not 

 grey-brown, but whitish, very slightly tinged with yellowish on the 

 breast and abdomen." The female resembles that of the Banda species 

 (M. boicei), but differs as pointed out under that species (vide infra). 



The figure (PI. II. fig. 3) represents an adult male, one of the types 

 of this species, most obligingly lent me by Count Salvadori. 



5. MYZOMEIA BCXLEI. 



Myzomela boiei, Sal. Mull. Verh., Land- en Volkenk. p. 172 (1839-44) ; 

 id. Verb., Zool. Aves, p. 66, t. 10. fig. 1, 2. 



<J capite, dorso uropygioque coccineis, plumis ad basin nigris ; macula 

 anteoculari, alis caudaque, cum torque pectorali nigris; corpore subtus 

 griseo-albo; subalaribus et remigum margine interna albis; rostro 

 nigro; pedibus corneis, plantis flavis. Long. al. 2-2, caud. 1*8, rostr- 

 5, tarsi *6 (poll. Angl.). 



