collected in Dutch New Guinea. 37 



a. Ad. Mimika River, 28th April, 1910. [No. 1135, 

 G. C. S.'] 



h. S ■ Upper Mimika River, 18th Feb. 1910. [No. 1069, 

 G. C. S.] 



c-h. c? ? et <i imm. Paiimau, Mimika River, 17th Dec. 

 1910. [Nos. 44, 67, 659, 660, 749, C. H. B. G.; 1478, 

 G. C. S,'\ 



i, k. ^ ^ . White Water Camp, Kapare River, 25th- 

 26th Oct. 1910. [Nos. 371, 375, C. H. B. G.'] 



l-r. S ? • Wataikwa River, Ist-Uth Oct. 1910. [Nos. 

 1288, 1289, 1303, 1304, 1347, 1348, 1351, G. C. S.] 



s. (?. Iwaka River, 28th Jan. 1911. [No. 930, 

 C. H. B. G.'] 



t-x. ,$ ? . Launch Camp, Setakwa River, 3rd-21st Oct. 

 1912. [C.B.K.'] 



y,z. ? . Camp 3, Utakwa River, 2500 £t., 22nd Dec. 1912. 

 {C.B.K.-] 



Adult. Iris dark brown (in one male it was spangled with 

 gold and had an outer ring of that colour) ; bare skin of the 

 head and throat orange ; bill deep orange ; feet deep yellow. 



Younger birds have the bare sides of the head much 

 smoother than the adult. 



" Dumont's Grackle is nearly as common as Melanopyrrlms 

 o. robertsoni, and often consorts with that subspecies when 

 feeding. It is more often seen in pairs than in parties or 

 flocks.^'— C. II. B. G. 



Melanopyrrlms orientalis robertsoni. 



Mino robertsoni D^Albertis, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genov. x. 

 p. 12 (1877) ; id. Ibis, 1877, p. 368 [Fly River]. 



Melanopyrrhus robertsoni Sharpe, J. Linn. Soc.^ Zool. xiv. 

 pp. 633, 687 (1879); Ogilvie-Grant, P. & P. p. 274 (1912); 

 id. Ibis, 1913, p. 87. 



Melanopyrrlms anais orientalis Roths. & Hartert (nee 

 Schleg.) KZ. X. p. Ill (1903), XX. p. 526 (1913) ; van Oort, 

 p. 106 (1909). 



a-c. ($ ? . Wakatimi, Mimika River, 1st Jan.-28th 

 Feb. 1911. [Nos. 208, 1049, 1050, C. H. B. G.] 



