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In two male specimens from the Goliath Mountains, kindly 

 sent from the Tring Museum for examination, the yellow 

 nuchal band is strongly indicated, especially in one obtained 

 on the 5th of February, 1911. In two adult females, also 

 from the Goliath Mountains, the nape is almost similarly 

 coloured, but the yellow is more diffused and is more or less 

 confined to the middles of the feathers. The only typical 

 female specimen of P. modesta from Arfak in the British 

 Museum, like the male from that locality, has no distinct 

 yellow markings on the nape, but the whole of that region 

 is brown slightly washed with orange. Both the females 

 procured on the Utakwa River are very similar to the Arfak 

 bird mentioned above, but these it should be noted are both 

 immature, as is shown by the pointed tail-feathers with fine 

 plumes still attached to the extremity of the shafts. 



Count Salvadori, who has examined a number of specimens 

 from the Arfak, clearly says that the male of P. modesta 

 differs from that of P. brehnii in lacking the yellow collar 

 [0. P. i. p. 141 (1880)]. 



It thus seems certain that the specimens procured by the 

 Wollaston Expedition on the Utakwa from 5500--8000 ft,, 

 as well as those procured hy A. S. Meek on Mt. Goliath at 

 elevations above 5000 ft., represent a distinct subspecies 

 which has been described as follows : — 



Adult male. Differs from the male of P. modesta (Schleg.) 

 in having a pale yellow nuchal collar dividing the brown 

 feathers of the bead, which have dull orange middles, from 

 the green back. In P. modesta the head and hind-nock are 

 brown, washed with yellowish-olive on the occiput and nape. 

 Upper mandible plumbeous, edge whitish, lower mandible 

 brown, tip whitish ; feet plumbeous black. Wing 94 mm. 



Adidt female. Very similar to the female of P. modesta., 

 but with the head and nape coloured almost as in the m;ile 

 though the yellow collar is less defined. Bill horny brown, 

 tip yellow ; feet black. Wing 95 mm. 



The British Museum now possesses a series of P. madaraszi 

 Meyer from South-east New Guinea which includes two 

 immature males. These resemble the adult female and 



