collected in Dutch New Guinea. 61 



. Melirrhoplietes ochromelas batesi. 



Melirrhophetes batesi Sharpe ; id. in Goald^s Birds New 

 Guinea, iii. pi. 35 (1886). 



Melirrhophetes ochromelas batesi Roths. & Hartert, N. Z. 

 X. p. 440 (1903). 



a. Imin. Camp 6 A, Utakwa River, 2900 ft., 20th Jan. 

 1913. [C.B.K.] 



b. S • Camp 6 b, Utakwa River, 4200 ft., 24th Jan. 1913. 

 [C.B.K.] 



c. c? . Camp 6 c, Utakwa River, 5500, ft., 17th Feb. 1913. 

 [C.B.K.] 



I agree with Messrs. Rothschild & Hartert (op. cit.) that 

 it is extremely doubtful if M.o. batesi can be maintained and 

 is really separable from typical A/, ochromelas Meyer, from 

 Arfak. No examples of the latter are available for com- 

 parison, and I am therefore unable to decide with certainty. 

 Specimens from Utakwa, and others from South-east New 

 Guinea, seem to be indistinguishable from the figure of the 

 type of M. ochromelas given by Sharpe in Gould's ' Birds 

 of New Guinea/ pi. 34 (1877). 



Melirrhophetes belfordi. 



Melirrliophetes belfordi De Vis, Rep. Brit. New Guinea, 

 1889, Birds, p. 3 (1890) [Mt. Knutsford] ; Hartert, N. Z. iv. 

 p. 369 (1897) ; Roths. & Hartert, N. Z. x. p. 440 (1903), 

 xiv. p. 481 (1907). 



a. S- Camp 6 b, Utakwa River, 4200 ft., 3rd Feb. 1913. 

 [C.B.K] 



b-d. S ? • Camp 6 c, Utakwa River, 5500 ft., 19th & 

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



e-l. S ? • Camp 9, Utakwa River, 5500 ft., 26th Jan.- 

 4th Feb. 1913. [C.B.K.'] 



m. S . Camp 11, Utakwa River, 8000 ft., 9th Feb. 1913. 

 [C.B.K.] 



Messrs. Rothschild & Hartert [cf. N. Z. xx. p. 514 (1913)] 

 have separated the birds collected by A. S. Meek on Mount 

 Goliath as 717. b. griseirostris on account of their smaller size 

 and pale slaty-blue bill. 



