collected in Dutch Neio Guinea. 91 



Pachycepliola sororcula De Vis, Ibis, 1897, p. 380 [same 

 locality as above]. 



Pmcilodryas caniceps pectoralis van Oort, Notes, xxxii. 

 p. 213 (1910) [Hellwig Mts., 8700 ft.]. 



a. S- Camp 6 b, Utakwa River, 4200 ft., 2ncl Feb. 

 1913. [C.B.K.'] 



b-h. $ ? . Camp 6 c, Utakwa River, 5500 ft., 17th-23rd 

 Feb. 1913. IC.B.K.'] 



i-m. $ ? . Camp 9, Utakwa River, 5500 ft., 26th-29th 

 Jan. 1913. {_C.B.K.'\ 



n, 0. $ . Camps 10-11, Utakwa River, 7000 ft., 3rd & 

 4tli Feb. 1913. {_C.B.K.'\ 



p-s. (^ ^ et (^ imm. Camp 11, Utakwa River, 8000 ft., 

 6th-9th Feb. 1913. [C. B. K.] 



Most of the specimens listed above are indistinguishable 

 from typical examples of P. n. ohsciirior Hartert, from Eafa 

 District, Owen Stanley Range, and differ slightly from the 

 two examples of typical P. scidegeli from Arfak in the 

 British Museum, as pointed out by Dr. Harterf. He has 

 identified three females from Mt. Goliath as typical P. 

 scidegeli ; but this is no doubt an error, as they have the 

 crown, sides of the head, and ear-coverts dark grey instead 

 of greyish-brown as in the females from the Arfak Mts. In 

 this respect the Goliath birds resemble females of P. s. 

 obscurior, but the latter differ slightly in having the upper 

 breast olive-green below the grey of the chest, whereas in 

 the birds from Mt. Goliath and in a female specimen "5,'' 

 from the Utakwa River, 8000 ft., which are quite similar to 

 one another, the yellow of the breast joins the grey of the 

 throat and is not separated by an olive-green zone. As 

 adult males from Utakwa River, 8000 ft., do not differ in 

 any way from specimens taken at lower elevations and listed 

 above, I have not attempted to separate them, but it is quite 

 possible that with a larger series of female specimens it may 

 be found advisable to do so. 



The female of P. s. obscurior has been described by De Vis 

 as Pcecilodri/as caniceps (vide supra) ; also Messrs. Rothschild 

 and Hartert are no doubt right in regarding Pachycephala 



