174 Mr. W. R. Oo-ilvie-Grant on Birds 



(1911)], is easily distinguishable. He has also separated the 

 bird from Melville Island as M. f. melmllensis [c/. Aust. Av. 

 Rec. i. p. 39 (1912)], but this should^ no doubt, be referred 

 to the typical form. 



Micropca Iceta Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genov. xii. p. 323 

 (1878) from Wandammen, west of Geelvink Bay^ appears 

 to be a very closely allied form. 



Micrceca griseiceps bartoni, subsp. n. 



Microeca griseiceps Roths. & Hartert (nee De Vis), N. Z. x. 

 p. 471 (1903) [Aroa]. 



In the collection of birds made by Mr. Walter Goodfellow 

 in the Ovi^en Stanley Mountains, there is a male example of 

 a species of Microeca, which I cannot identify with certainty. 

 There is also a female evidently referable to the same form 

 from Dorawaida, presented to the British Museum by Capt. 

 F. R. Barton. The species is perhaps identical with Microeca 

 griseiceps De Vis [Ann. Rep. Brit. N. Guin. July 1893- 

 June 1894, App. EE, p. 101 (1894)]. The male type of 

 that species was obtained on Mt. Manaeao, 1400 ft., Gorupu 

 Mountains, above Collingwood Bay. The birds from the 

 southern slopes of the Owen Stanley range differ in several 

 particulars, notably in having the chin and throat white in 

 contrast to the chest, which is greyish-olive tinged with buff, 

 and the lower breast and abdomen dull yellow, instead of 

 lemon-yellow. Two examples in the Tring Museum from 

 the Upper Mambare River, and from the Upper Aroa River, 

 which are similar to the British Museum specimens, have 

 been identified by Dr. Hartert as AI. griseiceps, but the 

 correctness of this determination seems to me doubtful. 



It seems, however, probable that the true M. griseiceps 

 from the northern coast has recently been re-described by 

 Dr. Reichenow (J. f. 0. 1915, p. 124) as M. poliocephala 

 and that the southern birds represent a distinct subspecies. 



Another close ally is M. Jiavigaster Gould, mentioned above, 

 but the present form differs in having the top of the head 

 and back of the neck dark grey, and the rest of the upper- 

 parts darker and more olive in colour ; the tail-feathers 



