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white, as well as the eyelid and a spot at the base of the cheeks. 

 This yellowish eyelid may be the remains of young plumage, 

 though Count Salvadori gives it as a characteristic of the adult. 

 In the Museum we have a large series of this species ; and the 

 birds without the above characters seem to me to be the older 

 ones. 



MeI/TLESTES poltopteeus, SJiarpe, antea, p. 318. No. 153. 

 Choqeri district. "Bererita." [_A. G-.'] 



General colour above green, the whole of the crown and nape 

 dark slaty grey ; wing-coverts slaty grey ; quills dusky, externally 

 slaty grey, rather lighter along the edge of the primaries, the 

 secondaries with a very faint olive tint on the outer webs ; tail- 

 feathers dusky, externally edged with slaty grey, and having a 

 small white spot at the tip of the inner web ; lores, sides of face, 

 and ear-coverts dull slaty grey, with a slight wash of green • under 

 surface of body olive-yellow, the chin dusky grey washed with 

 yellow, the lower throat bright yellow ; thighs ashy, washed with 

 yellow ; under tail-coverts yellow, ashy grey along the centre ; 

 ander vdng-coverts and axillaries white, the latter washed with 

 3'^ellow ; quills dusky brown, edged with white along the inner 

 web. Total length 4"4! inches, culmen 1"2, wing 2'85, tail 1*55, 

 tarsus 0"7. 



Melidectes torquatus, Sclater ; Salvad. t. c. ii. p. 319. No. 

 130. Morocco district. " Ugirru." 



Eyes dark brown ; legs bluish slate-colour ; bare patch above 

 eve bright yellow, deepening to rich orange around the eye. The 

 wattles under the eye are also edged orange. The skin at the 

 junction of the beak with the head is flesh-colour. \_A. G.'] 



Agrees witli the figure given by Gould (B. N. Guin. part iv.). 

 The species was only known before from the Arfak Mountains. 



Ptilotis analoga (BeicTienh.) ; Salvad. t. c. ii. p. 327. No. 

 148. Morocco district. " Eaga." Legs dark slate. \_A. G.'\ 



Ptilotis marmoeata, Sharpe, antea, p. 319. No. 146. Mo- 

 rocco district. " Eaga." Legs dark. [_A. G.'] 



General colour above dusky brown, the feathers margined with 

 olive, rather lighter on the head, which has a mottled appearance ; 

 on the forehead and over the eye a slight shade of ashy ; wing- 

 coverts like the back, but the outer median and greater coverts 

 edged with paler olive, inclining to whity brown near the tips ; 



