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specimen sent by Mr. Goldie is a fully adult bird, wbich agrees 

 exactly with the figure in Gould's 'Birds of New Guinea' 

 (part iv.). It does not agree so well with Count Salvadori's 

 description, which appears to me to be taken from a slightly 

 immature bird. 



Mtzomela nigeita, G-ray; Salvad. t. c. ii. p. 291. No. 150. 

 Choqeri district. " Chomadubu." [_A. G.'] East Cape {Hun- 

 stein). 



Mtzomela Eosenbeegit, Sclil. ; Salvad. t. c. ii. p. 294. No. 

 151. Choqeri district. " Chomadubu." \_A. G.'] 



An adult and immature female are sent. Many specimens 

 are enumerated by Count Salvadori from the Arfak Mountains ; 

 and he also mentions that two skins of native preparation were 

 procured by Signer D'Albertis from the mountains near Hall 

 Bay. These skins, though mutilated, were pronounced by Count 

 Salvadori to be identical with others from North-western New 

 Guinea, and the same may be said of the present birds. 



Mtzomela obscuea, Gould ; Forles, P. Z. 8. 1879, p. 268 • 

 Salvad. t. c. ii. p. 303. East Cape (Sunstein). 



Melilestes iliolophus, Salvad. ; id. t. c. ii. p. 316. No. 104. 

 Choqeri district. " Biriuta." \_A. G.l 



General colour above dull olive-green, the head a little duller 

 than the back ; feathers of the lower back and rump very long 

 and silky, and a little lighter than the rest of the back ; wing- 

 coverts like the back, the primary-coverts and quills dusky 

 brown, edged with olive-green like the back, the secondaries 

 more broadly ; tail dusky black ; lores and feathers round the 

 eye ashy olive ; ear-coverts lighter olive ; under surface of body 

 very pale yellowish, ashy on the cheeks and throat ; sides of the 

 body with long silky plumes of paler yellow ; under tail- coverts 

 like the abdomen, and washed with pale olive-green ; axillaries 

 light yellow like the sides of the body ; under wing-coverts light 

 ashy brown, washed with yellowish olive ; quills dusky below, 

 whitish along the edge of the inner web. Total length 3"9 inches, 

 culmen 0"85, wing 2"7, tail 1*45, tarsus 0"85. 



Melilestes megaehtnchus {Gray); Salvad. t. c. ii. p. 313. 

 No. 132. Morocco 'district. " Cheta." Eyes light red; legs 

 dark [_A. G.'\ Procured by Signer D'Albertis on the Fly Eiver. 



The bird sent by Mr. Goldie has a slight streak of yellowish 



