collected in Dutch New Guinea. 87 



Parus(?) arfaki, has been placed among the Dicseidse by 

 Salvadori, Sharpe, and others. The plumage of the male 

 is strongly reminiscent of that o£ the Titmice, and though it 

 does not possess a small first primary as in Parus, I am 

 inclined to associate it with that group rather than with the 

 Flower-peckers. In the Dicseidse a parallel case is to be 

 found ; for the genus Dicceum has no first primary as in 

 Oreocharis, while Frionochilus has a distinct bastard-primary 

 as in Parus. 



Family LANIID^. 



Pachycare flavogrisea subaurantia. 



Pacliycliare flavogrisea van Oort (nee Meyer), p. 92 (1909). 

 P achy chare flavogrisea subaurantia Roths. & Hartert, N. Z. 

 XX. p. 510 (1913) [Utakwa River, 3000 ft.]. 



a. c? . White Water Camp, Kapare River, 700 ft., 28th 

 Oct. 1910. [No. 385, C. H. B. G.] 



h-g.S'^- IwakaRiver,6th-llth Feb. 1911. [Nos. 226, 

 997,\008, 1009, 1013, 1023, C.H.B. G.] 



h-v. S ? . Camp 3, Utakwa River, 2500 ft., 26th Nov.- 

 27th Dec. 1912. [C. B. K.] 



w-y. ? et cJ ? imm. Camp 6 a, Utakwa River, 2900 ft., 

 6th-13th Jan. 1913. [ C. B. K.] 



The orange-yellow colour in freshly moulted specimens 

 gradually fades, but even in worn specimens from Southern 

 Dutch New Guinea the orange-wash on the head and under- 

 parts renders them separable from typical specimens of 

 P. flavogrisea from Arfak. The latter species probably 

 ranges eastwards along Northern New Guinea to South-east 

 New Guinea, as specimens from British New Guinea are 

 apparently perfectly similar to those from Arfak, the 

 general colour of the head and underparts being bright 

 canary-yellow without a trace of the orange which is 

 characteristic of freshly moulted specimens of P. f. sub- 

 aurantia. 



Six examples marked " $ ," which appear to be fully adult 

 birds, have a dark olive-coloured patch on the ear-coverts and 

 hinder part of the cheek. Two bird.s, also marked ".?/''; are 



