collected in Dutch New Guinea. 175 



dark brown, narrowly margined with olive, the outer pairs 

 with the inner webs narrowly edged at the extremity 

 with whitish ; the yellow on the breast and belly darker and 

 duller, and the upper breast and sides of the body washed 

 with gre} ish-olive. 



The particulars about our male specimen are as follows : — 



Iris brown ; upper mandible black, lower yellow ; feet 

 yellow. 



Male. Wing 72 ; tail 55 ; tarsus 13-5 mm. 



Female. „ 68; „ 50; „ 13 mm. 



cJ. Owen Stanley Range, 5000 ft., April,-) 

 1908, W; Goodfellow. (T^/pesofthe 



' ^ -^ ^ \ subspecies. 



? . Dorawaida, 1 lOO ft. Capt. F. R. Barton. J ^ 



Family HIRUNDINIDiE. 



*Petrochelidon nigricans. 



Petroclielidon nigricans (Y'xexW.) ; Sharpe, Cat. x. p. 190 

 (1885); id. & Wyatt, Monogr. Hirund. ii. p. 525, pi. 103 

 (1887) ; van Oort!, p. 83 (1909). 



Two specimens were taken on the Noord River in July. 



Hirundo rustic a gutturalis. 



Uirundo rustica gutturalis Scop.; Sharpe, C;it, x. p. 134 

 (1885) ; id. & Wyatt, Monogr. Hirund. i. p. 241, pi. 40 

 (1893). 



Chelidon rustica gutturalis Roths. & Hartert, N. Z. xx, 

 p. 492 (1913). 



a-e. (^ et 1^ ? imm. Mouth of the Mimika River, 3rd 

 & 20th Dec. 1910 and 19th March, 1911. [Nos. 34, 41, 42, 

 161, 1201, C.ff.B.G.] 



f. (^ imm. Parimau, Mimika River, 18th Nov. 1910. 

 [No. 521, C.ff.B.G.] 



g. ^ imm. Wataikwa River, 28th Oct. 1910. [No. 1449, 

 G.C.S.] 



The adult male (No, 161) has the fore-neck chestnut inter- 

 rupted by a few blue feathers ; the underparts are washed 

 with rufous-buff, stron<];est on the under tail-coverts ; in six 



