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



d-g. S ? • Parimku, Mimika Hiver, 17th Nov., 3rd & 9tli 

 Dec. 1910. [Nos. 574, 639, 691, 692, C. H. B. G.'] 



h-m. (;J $ et ? imm. White Water Camp, Kapare River, 



12th Oct.-2nd Nov. 1910. [Nos. 304, 305, 351, 365, 422, 



C. H. B. G.} 



n,o. S' Launch Camp, 17th & 21st Oct. 1912. [ C. B. K.'\ 



p-s. (^ ? . Canoe Camp, Setakwa River, 17th & 18th 



Oct. 1912. [C.B.K.] 



f, w. ? et ? imm. (kmp 3, Utakwa River, 2500 ft., 26th 

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



Iris hazel or brown ; bill olive-brown or black, tip flesh- 

 colour ; feet pale olive-brown. 



Male examples are distinguished by the silvery-white 

 colour of the underparts, and perhaps by the somewhat 

 longer bill. In the female the underparts are washed with 

 pale buff, especially on the flanks. 



Young birds resemble the adult, but the bill is rather 

 shorter and of a brownish horn-colour instead of black, but 

 the difference appears to be very slight. 



Some birds are moulting slightly in October, December, 

 February, and March. I can see no difference between 

 typical examples of T. wallacii from Misol and birds from 

 New Guinea and the Aru Islands. The latter have been 

 separated as T. coronata Gould, but the series now available 

 for comparison clearly shows that the differences which 

 have been pointed out as distinctive characters are purely 

 individual. Birds with lanceolate blue tips to the feathers 

 of the crown and paler blue shafts, characters supposed to 

 be peculiar to Misol specimens, are found equally amongst 

 birds from the Aru Islands and New Guinea. 



" Wallace's Todopsis was first met with on the slopes of 

 the Saddle Peak range near the Pygmy village of Wam- 

 berimi, and was believed to be confined to the hills ; but we 

 afterwards found it was by no means uncommon both at 

 Parimau and around Wakatimi. It was always observed in 

 pairs, and frequented the undergrowth. It has a short, 

 sharp call-note."— r.^. 5. G. 



