1875.] DR. 0. FINSCH ON PRISTORHAMPHUS VERSTERI. 641 
the type specimen of this species (which I examined in the Leiden 
Museum) being in fact ** Myiodioctes pusillus, Wils.,” a well-known 
North-American bird. The base of the stand on which the stuffed 
“type”? specimen is placed bears an original label by Dr. Gustav 
Schlegel, as having been the bird collected by him during his stay 
at Amoy; but this label has, no doubt, been unfortunately changed 
by the stuffer, and the ticket of a Chinese specimen fastened to an 
American bird. It may be added that the name Abrornis atricapilla 
was not given by Temminck, but is in Mr. Blyth’s owa handwriting. 
4. On Pristorhamphus versteri, a new Genus and Species of 
Bird from the Arfak Mountains, New Guinea. By 
Orto Finscu, Ph.D., C.M.Z.S. 
[Received October 29, 1875.] 
During my recent stay at Leiden the Rijks Museum received a 
large and rich collection of birds from the Arfak Mountains in New 
Guinea, obtained by a Dutch traveller whose name I do not know. 
Besides fine and perfect specimens of the rarer Birds of Paradise 
(such as Lophorina, Parotia, Paradigalla, Epimachus, Astrapia), 
the collection contained, amongst other rare birds, skins of Eupetes 
leucostictus, Scl., Melirrhophetes, Meyer, Pachycephala flavogrisea, 
Meyer (which seems to form a peculiar genus), Zrichoglossus 
moesschenbroekit, Carpophaga chalconota, Salvad., and many others. 
There was also a sombre bird which Professor Schlegel and I took 
at first glance for the female of Melanocharis (Diceum) nigra; but 
on a closer examination it proved to be quite new, and to form even 
anew genus. This I propose to call 
PrIsTORHAMPHUS*, gen. nov. 
Allied to Melanocharis, Sel., but easily distinguished by the long, 
strongly rounded tail, and the long slender legs. 
The structure of the bill corresponds exactly with that of Melano- 
charis, having the margins of both mandibles serrated, but with the 
serrations stronger and more visibly apparent, especially with the use 
of a glass. 
The wing resembles that of Melanocharis: i. e. the fourth and 
fifth quills are the longest, the third and sixth a little shorter, the 
first short ; but the second, instead of being equal to the seventh as 
in Melanocharis, reaches only the length of the ninth. It must be 
remarked that the second quill feather in Melanocharis shows a 
slight attenuation at the end of the inner web; but this peculiarity is 
only to be seen in old males ; whereas females and young males have 
the second quill rounded at the apex as in Pristorhamphus. 
The tail is strongly rounded and nearly equal to the length of the 
wing, whereas Melanocharis has a nearly even tail, which is much 
_shorter than the wing. 
* Deriy. rpiorns=serra, et pappos=rostrum. 
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