1879.] MR. W. A. FORBES ON THE GENUS MYZOMELA. 269 



16. Myzomela RUBROTINCTA. 



Myzomela rubrotincta, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Geiiov. xii. p. 344 



(1878). 



" Brunnea, dorso, alis et cauda pulcherrime rubro tinctis ; pectore, 

 abdomine et subcaudalibus obsoletius rubro tinctis. Long. tot. 

 •120 m., al(B -067, caud. -048, rostri 020, tars. '020." 



Hab. "in ins. Obi (Bernstein)," Salvad. I. c. 



Tliis species has recently been described by Count Salvadori from 

 five specimens — two males and three females — the two sexes are 

 similar — in the Leyden Museum. He says it "resembles 3/. simplex 

 of Gray from Halmahera, in which only the remiges and rectrices 

 (and not all the parts between the head and neck) are margined with 

 red, and iu which the red colour is very indistinct." 



17. Myzomela rtjbrobrunnea. (Plate XXIV. fig. 2.) 



Mtjzomela rubrobrunnea, Meyer, Sitzungsber. Ak. in Wien, Ixx. 

 p. 203 (1874). 



S grisescenti-brunneus,subtus dilutior, capite saturatiore, plumis 

 plus minusve vinaceo limbatis; dorso inferiore et uropygio, cum 

 marginibus externis remigmn et rectricum vinaceo-rubris ; alis 

 caitddque subtus griseis; margine interna remigum albida; rostra 

 pedibusque nigro-corneis. Long, tota circa 4, alee 2'4, caud. 

 1-8, rostr. "6, tars. •55 {poll. Angl.). 

 2 mari similis, sed coloribus minus intensis et paullo minor, 

 Hab. in insula Mysore. 



Dr. Meyer first discovered this beautiful species of Myzomela, 

 during his travels in and about New Guinea in 1873. lie obtained 

 only two specimens, both males, at Kordo, the chief settlement in 

 the island of Mysore in Geelvink Bay. Beccari obtained others in 

 the same island, to which it is apparently confined ; and from one of 

 his specimens, a fine male, kindly lent me by Count Salvadori, the 

 figure is taken. 



This species resembles M. simplex and M. rubrotincta of the Mo- 

 luccas, but differs from both in the red margins to the feathers 

 being continued over a larger part of the bird. 



18. Myzomela cruentata. 



Myzomela cruentata, Meyer, Sitzungsber. Ak. Wien, Ixx. i. 

 p. 202 (1874) ; Gould, B. New Guin. pi. pt. v. 



Myzomela coccinea, Ramsay, Proc. L. S. N. S. W. ii. p. 106 

 (1877) 1 (Ex insulis Duels Eboraci.) 



Myzomela erythrina, Ramsay, Proc. L. S. N. S. W. ii. p. 107 

 (1877) 1 (Ex Nova Hibernia.) 



cj corpora omnino chermesino, uropygio splendidiore, plumis 

 ad basin nigris; alis rubricantibus, plumis externe rubris; remi- 

 gibusfuscis, primis duobus exceptis, rubro limbatis ; rectricibus 

 rubido-griseis, externe rubro marginatis ; alis caudaque subtus 



