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



Tliis species is new to the British Museum. I have not 

 been able to compare the Utakwa specimens with typical 

 birds from Arfak ; but they seem to agree exactly with the 

 original description given by Count Salvadori. 



In their latest work Messrs. Hothschild and Hartert {op. 

 cit.) consider P. prcecipua Hartert, and P. p. lorentzi van 

 Oort, as subspecies of P. erythropleura, to which they are 

 evidently not very nearly related. This is now proved, since 

 P. eryiliropleura and P. p. lorentzi have been obtained 

 together on the same ground. 



The specimen figured is a male, " a " of the above list. 



Ptilotis praBcipua lorentzi. (PL III. fig. 2.) 



Ptilotis erytlirophura lorentzi van Oort, p. 95 (1909) 



[Hell wig Mts.] ; Roths. & Hartert, N. Z. xx. p. 515 



(1913). 



Ptilotis prcecipua nigritergum Roths. &Hartert, Bull. B. 0. C. 



xxix. p. 35 (1911). 



a. ? . Camp 6 B, Utakwa River, 4200 ft., 4th Feb. 1913. 

 IC.B.K.] 



b. ? . Camp 6 c, Utakwa River, 5500 ft., 20th Feb. 1913. 

 [C. B. K.I 



c. S • Camp 9, Utakwa River, 5500 ft., 31st Jan. 1913. 

 IC.B.K.-] 



This Honey-eater is another interesting addition to the 

 National Collection, and is easily distinguished from the 

 allied form P. 2:>rcecipiia Hartert, from the mountains of 

 British New Guinea. P. p. lorentzi was first described from 

 the Hellwig Mountains above the Upper Noord River, and 

 was subsequently obtained by A. S. Meek in the Goliath 

 Mountains. As already stated above, both these verydistinct 

 forms have been wrongly placed by Messrs. Rothschild and 

 Hartert as subspecies of P. erythropleura. 



The specimen figured is a male, " c " of the above list. 



Ptilotis polygramma. 



Ptilotis polygi^amma Gray ; Gadow, Cat. ix. p. 233, pi. vi. 

 (1884) ; Roths. & Hartert, N. Z. x. p. 447 (1903). 



