collected in Dutch New Guinea^ 223 



0. ? . Canoe Camp, Setakwa River, 6th Nov. 1912, 

 IC.B.K.-] 



p-r. ^ ? . Camp 3, Utakwa River, 2500 £t., 29th Nov. 

 & 27th Dec. 1912, 9th Jan. 1913. [ C. B. iT.] 



«,«.(??. Camp 6 c, Utakwa River, 5500 ft., 19th Feb. 

 1913. [C.B.K.I 



u-w. cJ ? . Camp 9, Utakwa River, 5500 ft., 28th Jan. 

 1913. [C.B.K.] 



Iris orange or rich orange ; orbital skin black ; bill scarlet 

 or coral-red, bare skin on the throat orange ; feet black. 



Almost the whole of the series listed above belong to the 

 red phase ; two specimens only, one male from Wakatimi 

 (No. 1061) and one female from Camp 9 on the Utakwa 

 River, 5500 ft,, have the upper pectoral band orange or 

 orange-yellow and the red on the rest of the nnderparts 

 mingled with orange. They are somewhat intermediate 

 between the red and yellow phases. Messrs. Rothschild 

 and Hartert state that six specimens collected by Meek on 

 the Setakwa and ' Utakwa Rivers all belong to the red 

 phase ; while among nine birds obtained by the same col-^ 

 lector on Mount Goliath six are red, two yellow, and one 

 intermediate. Dr. van Oort records a red example procured 

 by Dr. Lorentz in the Hellwig Mountains. 



Count Salvadori in the ' Catalogue of Birds ' says that the 

 yellow birds are the young, but Mivart felt uncertain as to 

 the correctness of this conclusion. I may add that, with the 

 large series now before me, I feel certain that the birds with 

 the feathers of the pectoral bands and lower breast and belly 

 pure rich yellow are perfectly adult and represent a yellow 

 phase of plumage. This is the conclusion already arrived at 

 by Mr. Rothschild and Dr. Hartert. 



Young birds are to be found in both the red and yellow 

 phases of plumage, and occur together in the same locality ; 

 for instance, Mr. Goodfellow collected four young birds at 

 Sogeri, in the Owen Stanley Mountains, which vary from 

 red to yellow. 



Young birds in first plumage may be recognised by the 

 small bill with the upper mandible dusky and the lower 



