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24 Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Graut on Binh 



that their specimens oi Dipliyllodes from the Setakwa River 

 are typical examples of D. -magnijica (Pennant), and that I 

 was wrong in referring birds from the Mimika River, etc.,. 

 to D. clirysoptera Elliot. I have again looked carefully into 

 the matter and find that D. magnijica and D. clirysoptera are 

 both, synonymous with D. speciosa (Bodd.). This will be 

 seen from an examination of the synonymy given above, 

 which Messrs. Rothschild and Hartert now agree is correct. 

 The British Museum contains the male type of D. clirysoptera 

 as well as a second adult male specimen of the same bird — 

 both native skins — from the Grould Collection, believed to 

 have come from the Island of Jobi j these agree entirely with 

 our male specimens from Southern New Guinea listed above. 

 There are also in the British Museum Collection a number of 

 orange-winged native-made skins, exactly like our males, 

 which are said to have come from the Arfak Mountains. All 

 triese bright orange-winged birds appear to me to be quite 

 distinct from the specimens with clay-coloured wings found 

 in the adjacent Island of Salawalti and brought for sale to 

 the little island of Sorong off North-western New Guinea. 

 Lord Rothschild, who possesses a large series of these 

 birds, mostly trade-skins, is of opinion that the two forms 

 intergrade, but I think this is a mistake, as all our worn 

 and faded specimens, which might be regarded as inter- 

 mediate links at the first glance, are clearly referable to 

 I), speciosa. I therefore propose to name the bird with 

 clay- coloured wings from Salawatti 



Diphyllodes roths cMldi, sp. n. . 



Dipliyllodes magnijica Sharpe (nee Pennant), Monogr. 

 Paradis. i. pi. xxxiii. (1896). 



Type in the British Museum. $ ad. Island of Salawatti, 

 Feb. 1870. J. Gould Coll. 



Messrs. Rothschild and Hartert, as already mentioned, 

 refer all the birds from South-west New Guinea and Arfak 

 to D. magnifica (Pennant), which was founded on D^Auben- 

 ton's pi. 631. The origin of the specimen figured was not 



