collected in Dutch New Guinea. 289 



while two have the mantle much greyer, one especially so — 

 in fact, the mantle in that bird might aptly be described as 

 uniform dark grey. The measurements agree with those 

 given by Count Salvadori. 



Eallina tricolor. 



Rallina tricolor Grray ; Sharpe, Cat. xxiii. p. 79 (1894) ; 

 Ogilvie-Grant, P. & P. p. 293 (1912) ; id. Ibis, 1913, 

 p. 104. 



a. c? . Wakatimi, Mimika River, 24th Dec. 1910. [No. 

 112,C.H.B.G.] 



b-d. cj ? . Launch Ckmp, Setakwa River, 2nd Oct. 1912, 

 24th & 30th March, 1913. [C. B. K.'\ 



Iris crimson ; bill apple-green ; feet olive. 



The Australian form has been separated as R. t. rohinsoni 

 by Mr. Mathews, and, having a smaller bill and browner 

 back, is fairly distinguishable. I have seen one typical 

 example of R. tricolor from the Aru Islands, and am unable 

 to see in what way it differs from New Guinea specimens. 

 Mr. Mathews does not explain, but he has separated birds 

 from the last-named locality as Eulaheornis tricolor grayi. 

 The type of R. tricolor, described by G. R. Gray from a 

 specimen obtained by Wallace in the Aru Islands, is not in 

 the British Museum. Sharpe does not allude to it in the 

 list of specimens given in the ' Catalogue,' the only example 

 from the Wallace Collection being specimen " Z," a male 

 from Dorei. In his description; however, he wrote : " Adult 

 male (type of the species)." This was clearly a mistake on 

 Sharpe's part, for the bird described was that from Dorei 

 already alluded to. This is proved by a note in Sharpens 

 writing on the reverse of the label : " Descr. Cat. B." 

 Further, Gray's type-specimen from Arn was a female. 

 What has become of this specimen I am unable to say. 

 Gray stated (P. Z. S. 1858, p. 188) that it was "in Mr, 

 Wallace's Collection.'^ In the British Museum there is one 

 nearly adult specimen from Aru, procured by Mr. W. Good- 

 fellow in 1904. This bird cannot be separated from the 

 series listed above or from other examples from 



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