collected in Dutch New Guinea. 59 



Melipotes fumigatus goliathi. 



MeUpotes gymno-ps goliatld Roths. & Hartert, N. Z. xx. 

 p. 515 (1913) [Mt. Goliath]. 



a. S imm. Iwaka River, 6th Feb. 1911. [No. 999, 

 C.H.B.G.-] 



b. S ■ Camp 6 A, Utakwa River, 2900 ft., 7th Jan. 1913. 

 [C.B.K.] 



c-f. cJ. Camp 6 b, Utakwa River, 4200 ft., 30th Jan.- 

 22nd Feb. 1913. [C.B.K.] 



g-k. S ? • Cimp 6 C, Utakwa River, 5500 ft., 17th-25th 

 Feb. 1913. [C.B.K.'] 



l-p. ^ ? . Camp 9, Utakwa River, 5500 ft., 25th-31st 

 Jan. 1913. [C. B. K] 



g,r. o" ? . Camp 11, Utakwa River, 8000 ft., 6th Feb. 

 1913. [C.B.K.] 



Iris pale brown ; orbital skin gamboge ; bill black ; feet 

 lavender-grey or black. 



This is a rather darker form of M. fumigatiis Meyer, from 

 the mountains of South-east New Guinea. The authors in 

 describing this form consider it to be a subspecies of 

 M. gymnops Sclater (P. Z. S. 1873, p. 695, pi. Ivii.), but the 

 hitter is a totally different bird specifically, though it certainly 

 belongs to the same genus. This is another instance of the 

 present mania for regarding every form, however distinct, 

 as a subspecies of something else. 



The figure of M.Jumigatus given by Meyer [Zeitschr. ges. 

 Orn. iii. p. 22, pi. iv. fig. 2 (1886)] is not very accurate, 

 the mottling of the underparts being barely indicated. 



This subspecies is new to the British Museum. 



Melidectes torquatus. 



Melidectes torquatus Sclater, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 694, pi, Iv, ; 

 Gould, B. New Guinea, iii. pi. 36 (1887) ; Salvad. 0. P. 

 ii. p. 319 (1881) ; Roths. & Hartert, N. Z. x. p. 439 

 (1903). 



a,h. (? ? . Camp 6 Ay Utakwa River, 2900 ft., 13th & 

 20th Jan. 1913. [C.B.K.'] 



