60 Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant on Birds 



This fine species of Honey-eater is new to the British 

 Museum collection, though its ally, M. t. emilii Meyer, from 

 South-east New Guinea, is well represented (cf. Gould, t. c. 

 pi. 37). 



In the figure of the type from Arfak given by Sclater, the 

 under tail-coverts and thiohs are shown as cinnamon-rufous, 

 but no mention is made of these points in the description, nor 

 are they so coloured in Gould's figures of typical examples 

 from Atam. In the Utakwa specimens the under tail- 

 coverts are sooty-black in the middle, widely edged on the 

 sides with whitish, like the flanks, and the thighs are brown. 

 Tlie cinnamon colour in the figure of the type-specimen is 

 no doubt a mistake on the part of the artist. 



*Melirrhoplietes nouhuysi. 



]\JeIirrhophetes nouhuysi van Oort, Notes, xxxii. p. 215 

 (lUlO) [" Orange Mts ," 3800 m.] 



This species appears to be most nearly allied to M. fuscus, 

 but it is larger, has no bare skin behind the eye, and has 

 oreen margins to the wing- and tail-feathers. One female 

 was procured on the Snow Mountains at an elevation of 

 about 12,500 ft. 



Melirrhophetes fuscus. 



Acanthochcera fusca De Vis, Ibis, 1897, p. 383 [Mt. 

 Scratchley, 12,200 ft.] ; id. Rep. Brit. New Guinea, 189G-7 

 (Birds), p. 86 (1898); Hartert, N. Z. iv. p. 369 (1897). 

 V Melirrhophetes fusca Roths. & Hartert, N. Z. x. p. 440 

 (1903). 



a. Head only. Mt. Carstensz, 11,000 ft., 31st Jan. 1913. 

 [C.B.K.] 



Only the head of this interesting Honey-eater could be 

 preserved, as the bird had been much damaged by shot ; 

 but it seems undoubtedly referable to this alpine species, 

 which was represented in the British Museum by two 

 examples from the Owen Stanley Range. 



Eyelid bluish-white; postorbital skin orange ; bill black; 

 feet bluish- white. 



