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Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant on Birds 



Guinea. In the Tring Museum there is one bird, said to be 

 from the Aru Islands, purchased of Whiteley. 



For the present, therefore, I retain the name M. tricolor 

 for the New Guinea specimens. 



The four birds collected by our expeditions vary very 



much inter se : — 



Ctilmen from 

 feathers on forehead. 



b. S (old). Very largo : 35 mm. 



c. S (? younger). 



a. S (adult). 



d. 5 (adult). 



Barring on underparts. 

 Strongly marked : bands white. 

 31 ram. Sparingly marked, mostly on the 

 middle of the belly,, with very 

 narrow whitish-buff bands. 



30 mm. Not strongly marked, and mostly 



buff; a few of the feathers with a 

 white band on the basal half. 



31 mm. Well-marked and mostly buff; a few 



of the feathers with a white band 

 on the basal half. 



Specimens in the British Museum : — 



cJ (? younger). Dorei. 30 mm. 



A. R. Wallace, 



Adult. Pt. Moresby. 31 mm. 



A. Goldie. 

 Younger. Silbattabatta, 32 mm. 



Aru Is. W. Goodfellow. 



Young. Humboldt Bay. 27 mm. 



W. Goodfellow. 



Sparingly marked, mostly on the 

 middle of the belly, with narrow 

 wliitish and buff bars. 



Strongly marked : bands white. 



Marked with pale rufous-buff bars, 

 and closely resembling the bird 

 from Dorei. 

 Marked with pale rufous-buff bars. 



Eallicula klossi. (PI. VII.) 



Rallicula klossi Ogilvie-Grant, Bull. B.O. C. xxxi, p. lOi 

 (1913). 



a. ? . Camp 6 b, Utakwa River, 4200 ft., 24th Jan. 1913. 

 [C.B.K.] ( Type of the female.) 



h, c. c? et c? juv. Camp 9, Utakwa River, 5500 ft., 30th 

 Jan. & 1st Feb. 1913. [ C. B. K] ( Type of the male.) 



The male of this species differs from the male of B. forbesi 

 Sharpe, from British New Guinea, in having the mantle, 

 wing-coverts, and scapulars dark chestnut instead of black. 

 Total length about 190 mm. ; wing 89 ; tail 51 ; tarsus 38.' 



