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allied to A. gutturalis De Vis, from British New Guinea, but 

 is easily distinguished by its finer bill and by lacking the 

 blackish bands on the sides of the neck. The lores and 

 superciliary stripes are pale rufous-buff, like the chin, throat, 

 and underparts ; the chest and breast, as well as the flanks, 

 darker, and the feathers of the chest with a few blackish 

 shaft-streaks. The outermost pair of tail-feathers have the 

 outer web and an oblique portion of the inner web pale buff ; 

 the penultimate pair have a terminal wedge of the same 

 colour, but of a more smoky tinge. 



The axillary plumes are remarkably long, hair-like, and of 

 a pale whitish-buff. 



Total length ca. 175 mm. ; wing 97 ; tail 77 ; tarsus 2^. 



The specimen was shot by one of the Dyak collectors, and 

 we have, unfortunately, no further information regarding it. 



Family MELIPHAGID^. 



Myzomela cruentata. 



Myzomela cruentata Meyer, Sitzb. Ak. "Wien, Ixx. Abth. i. 

 p. 202 (1874) ; Gould, Birds N. Guin. iii. pi. 71 (1877) ; 

 Roths. & Hartert, N. Z. x. p. 222 (1903), xiv. p. 479 

 (1907), XX. p. 512 (19ia). 



a-c. c?. White Water Camp, Kapare River, 26th Oct.- 

 10th Nov. 1910. [Nos. 373, 465, 467, C. H. B. G.'] 



d-f. ^ $ . Camp 6 A, Utakwa River, 2900 ft., 15th & 

 17th Jan. 1913. [C.B.K.'] 



Iris deep brown ; bill sooty-black ; feet sooty-brown, soles 

 yellowish. 



" The Red-tinted Honey-eater was by no means plentiful, 

 the three killed on the Kapare River being shot in a large 

 flowering-tree near my camp. Neither I nor the Dyaks 

 could make out hens belonging to these male birds, though 

 they were probably in the same tree." — C. H. B. G. 



Myzomela eques nymani. 



Myzomela eques (Less.); Salvad. 0. P. ii. p. 301 (1881) 

 [part.] ; Gadow, Cat. ix. p. 141 (1884) [part.]. 



