^'ol. xxix.] 34 



sliglitly browner; quills deep brown, outer edges green, 

 like the back; tail greenish-olive; sides of the head and 

 neck like the back ; a short white malar stripe ; throat and 

 chest black ; rest of the underside olive-green. Iris dark 

 brown ; bill black ; feet vandyke-brow n. Culmen 15 mm. ; 

 wing 06; tail 72; tarsus 26. 



Hub. Mt. Goliath, Central Dutch New Guinea. 



Type in the Tring Museum: S. No. 5346. 9. ii.ll. 

 A. S. Meek coll. 



Obs. We have placed this remarkable new species, of 

 which a single example was obtained, in the genus 

 Androphilus ; though the bill is a good deal higher at the 

 base, in every other respect it seems to agree perfectly Tvith 

 Androphilus accentor, Sharpe. The tail is slightly longer ; 

 all the feathers except the middle pair are in moult, but 

 there seems to be no doubt that it is composed o£ ten 

 rectrices only. 



Melipotes gymnops goliathi, subsp. n. 



Adult male. DifiFers from M. g. fumigatus, Meyer, from 

 British New Guinea, in being slightly larger and in having 

 the hind-neck and back deep black instead of blackish-olive, 

 and the edges of the upper wing-coverts and quills narrower 

 and greyer. The feathers of the breast and abdomen have 

 darker centres than in M. g. fumigatus, and the greyish throat 

 therefore contrasts more strongly with the breast. Iris dark 

 brown ; bill black ; feet slaty-blue. The wing in the largest 

 males measures 117 mm. 



Hah. Mt. Goliath, Central Dutch New Guinea, above 

 5000 feet. 



Type in the Tring Museum: ^. No. 5221. 27. i. 11. 

 A. S. Meek coll. 



Melirrhophetes belfordi griseirostris, subsp. n. 



Adult. Differs from M. b. belfordi from the mountains of 

 British New Guinea in having the bill slightly smaller and 

 pale slaty-blue instead of black. The wing in the largest 

 male examples measures 131 mm. 



