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Obs. This species resembles M. belfordi from British New 

 Guinea, but besides differing in some minor points and being 

 much darker^ it has four large wattles, wide white edges to 

 the feathers of the upper back, and larger dimensions. 



Melipotes ater, sp. n. 



Adult male. Entire upperside glossy black ; chin and throat 

 dark grey; breast and abdomen black, spotted with white, 

 each feather having a white tip, under tail-coverts black 

 with white edges. A large bare patch on each side of the 

 head apparently orange or dark yellow in life, legs and feet 

 apparently lead-blue. Culmen 30 mm. ; wing 164 ; tail 170 

 (lateral pair 135) ; tarsus 45. 



Adult female. Similar to the male, but much smaller. 

 Wing 142 mm. ; tail 140. 



Hob. Rawlinsou Mountains, north of Huon Gulf, German 

 New Guinea. 



The type specimen is in the Tring Museum. 



Obs. We are not aware that this species has any close 

 ally. 



Dr. Julius von Madabasz, F.M.B.O.U. (introduced by 

 the Hon. Walter Kothschild), contributed the description 

 of a new species of Roller from Southern Abyssinia, which 

 he proposed to name 



COBACIAS KOVACSI, Sp. U. 



Adult. Similar to C. lurti, Shelley, but with the whole 

 breast blue instead of green and with lilac shaft-stripes to 

 the feathers. 



Obs, This new species was discovered by Edmund v. Kovacs 

 in the valley of the Urso, Southern Abyssinia, in 1911. 

 He obtained a large series of some twenty examples, all 

 perfectly similar to the type specimen, which is in the 

 National Museum, Budapest. 



