collected in Dutch New Guinea. 71 



and like that bird some were shot in company with other 

 species o£ Honey-eaters and Sun-birds in large flowering- 

 trees feasting on the nectar from the flowers. 



" A nest taken at Parimau was cup-shaped and composed 

 of moss and dry twigs, lined with a finer brown material. It 

 was suspended between the horizontal fork of a shrub, only 

 some six inches above the ground." — C. H. B. G. 



Ptilotis salvadorii utakwensis, subsp. n. (PI. II. fig. 1.) ^Jl- 



Adult male and female. Closely allied to P. salvadorii 

 Hartert ( = P. lacrimans De Vis, Ibis, 1897, p. 382), from 

 the Owen Stanley Mountains ; but altogether more olive 

 both above and below. The upperparts, including the crown, 

 are mostly olive-green, the dark middles of the feathers 

 being much reduced in size in comparison with those of 

 P. salvadorii, and the breast and belly mostly greenish-olive 

 instead of dark brownish-olive. From P. subfrenata Salvad. 

 it seems to differ in various points, the forehead being olive 

 and the malar stripe black, whereas in the Arfak bird these- 

 parts are grey. 



2 males: wing 94, 95 mm.; tail 85, 91 mm. 



2 females : wing 88, 91 mm. ; tail 84, 84 mm. 



The colours of the soft parts have not been recorded. 



a, 6. ^ ? . ('amp 6 c, Utakwa River, 5500 ft., 18th & 

 19th Feb. 1913. [C.B.K.] 



c,d. S i' Camp 11, Utakwa River, 8000 ft., 19th Feb. 

 1913. [ C. B. K.'\ ( Types of the subspecies.) 



The specimen figured is " c," the S type of the subspecies. 



Xanthotis melanolckma Reichenow, J. f. 0. 1915, p. 127 

 [Sepik District] is almost certainly synonymous with Ptilotis 

 salvadorii Hartert. 



Ptilotis ixoides. 



Ptilotis ixoides Salvad. 0. P. ii. p. 339 (1881) [Sorong]. 



a, 6. S- Upper Mimika River, 23rd Feb. 1910. [ W. G. 

 &No. 1086, G. C.S.'] 



c-i. (J ? . Parimau, Mimika River, 1st Sept.-29th Nov. 

 1910. [Nos. 76, 174, 191, 494, 495, 59.1, 612, C. H. B. G.] 



I: ? . White Water Cam]), Kaparr River, 1500 fr., 8th 

 Nov. 1910. [No. 454, C IL B. G.] 



